Michelle Obama recently shared a thing or two about her daughters, Malia and Sasha during her interview with Oprah Winfrey.
In the “2020 Vision: Your Life In Focus” tour, the ex-FLOTUS said that she deliberately refused to follow her daughters on social media because she doesn’t want to be checking on their every move.
Michelle doesn’t also think it’s right for her two daughters, who are now in college, to be monitored closely by someone her age. As such, she has tapped someone else to do the checking for her.
“It’s better for them to be checked by somebody younger than me,” she said.
Barack Obama’s wife also revealed how she encourages her daughters to accept their bodies and the changes that they have undergone. Michelle shared how her daughters would complain about not being able to fit in their old jeans anymore.
“I told my daughter because as they’re getting older, they start to judge themselves and it’s interesting when they talk about, ‘I don’t fit in the jeans that I had last year.’ I said, ‘But you’re a whole other year older. You’re now becoming a woman. You don’t have a child’s body,’” she said.
“That’s like saying at 20, I’m really upset that I couldn’t wear my favorite overalls anymore from when I was 10. That’s as ridiculous as it is at 56 to think that I should look like I did when I was 36, or for anyone to judge me like that, or to judge a woman like that,” Michelle added.
But the ex-FLOTUS admitted that she herself struggled with accepting her body and her physical appearance. In fact, she revealed that she was called all sorts of names and insults while she was campaigning for her husband.
Michelle said that some of the comments and criticisms she has received were insulting, and she’s still carrying some of their baggage until today.