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Marian Robinson Moved To The White House With The Obamas Because She
‘Was Worried About Their Safety’
Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, gave her very first nationally televised interview on Wednesday morning, finally explaining how it felt to watch her daughter and son-in-law become the most powerful couple in the world.
“It’s pretty difficult,” Mrs. Robinson said when CBS This Morning host Gayle King asked how she wrapped her mind around the Obamas becoming America’s first fam- ily.
During her appearance, Mrs. Robinson also shared why she decided to uproot her life and move to 1600 Pennsyl- vania Avenue during the Obama administration.
“I felt like this was going to be a very hard life for both of them, and I was worried about their safety,” Mrs. Robinson admitted. “And I was worried about my grandkids–that’s what got me to move to D.C.”
The former First Lady
Michelle Obama and her mother, Marian Robinson.
echoed her mother’s thoughts, explaining she wanted her mother to be with the family to help instill a sense of normalcy in the lives of her young daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama who were just seven and ten at the beginning of their father’s presidency.
“I wanted them to come home to family,” Mrs. Obama explained. “There were parts of the girls’ life that I just knew were going to be ok because mom was there. When
I traveled internationally grandma was there. When I wasn’t home at the end of the day, grandma was there.”
While she helped her granddaughters navigate their life in the spotlight, Mrs. Robinson didn’t let living in the White House go to her head.
“I talked them into allow- ing me to do my own laundry,” the 81-year-old said. And she even taught Sasha and Malia how to do their laundry, too.
Michelle Obama Begins Arena Tour In Talk With Oprah
Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama began her 12-stop book tour last Tuesday by sitting with Oprah Winfrey before an audience at the home arena of the Chicago Bulls, speaking on everything from piano lessons and wash- ing socks to crying on a plane the day her family moved out of the White House and Presi- dent Donald Trump moved in.
The crowd of 14,000 roared as the former first lady stepped onto a stage at the sold-out United Center event, which felt part talk show, part political rally and part rock concert, complete with $35 Michelle Obama T-shirts emblazoned with her face and the title of her just-released memoir, “Be- coming.” Family pictures of Barack Obama and their
children flashed on a screen over her shoulder as she spoke. During the more than 90- minute conversation under Bulls’ NBA championship ban- ners in Obama’s home city, she never directly criticized Trump. Crying on the plane leaving Washington on Inaugu- ration Day 2017, she explained, had nothing to do with
Trump.
“When I got on the plane, I sobbed for 30 minutes,” she said. “I think it was just the re- lease of eight years trying to do everything perfectly.”
Obama turned to her hus- band, who had just become a former president. “I said to Barack, ‘That was so hard, what we just did. That was so hard.” She said she didn’t men- tion that episode in her book.
Michelle Obama Looks Becoming On The Cover Of Essence Magazine
The beloved former first lady opens up about her reign in the White House with her husband Barack Obama and how the two survived his chal- lenging two terms while keep- ing their marriage intact and their daughters grounded.
“From our very first con- versations, he showed me that he wasn’t afraid to express his fears and doubts, or that he might not have all the an- swers,” Obama told ESSENCE. “Just as important, Isawwhohewasnotonlyin the way he treated me but in the way he interacted with oth- ers outside of our relationship. He showed me that he re- spected women by the way he treated his mother, his sisters, and his grandmother.”
Obama said her husband brought his A-game to the table when they were dating.
“These were all things I learned long before we were
Essence
2018/Jan 2019 cover Michelle Obama is looking absolutely gor- geous, styled in a white suit giving us serious Olivia Pope vibes, as the icon handles her business and graces the December/January cover of Essence magazine.
married. It was all on display when we dated: he was consis- tent, he was honest, he was re- spectful, and he was secure in himself and secure in us. He hasn’t been perfect, but those things have never wavered.”
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