Iman and her husband David Bowie lived a very private life behind closed doors.
Iman is "holding up" after David Bowie's death this week following a secret 18-month battle with cancer.
The 60-year-old model married the Starman singer in 1992 before welcoming daughter Alexandria Zahra Jones, 15, together in 2000 and Iman's close friend Bethann Hardison revealed the family are coping.
She told
PEOPLE: "She's fine. We're fine. We're holding up. It comes in waves, you know. He's a great loss - not just a loss as an artist, but as a human."
The couple were very private about their relationship, with Iman famously saying she fell in love with David Jones the man, not David Bowie the superstar.
While David's family have not gone into detail about his illness, director Ivo van Hove, who he worked with on his stage show Lazarus, claimed he died from liver cancer.
