First Lady, Mom, Grace ESSENCE Cover
April 8th, 2009This Mother’s Day, ESSENCE magazine will feature the Mobama issue. Adorning the cover of the May edition will be First Lady Michelle Obama and First Grandmother Marian Robinson, who not only provide the African-American women’s periodical with a major-league coup but the public with a bona fide look at what Mother’s Day is all about. Speaking to the magazine from the first lady’s East Wing office, the mother-daughter duo spoke about life in the presidential mansion and why glowing role models are so important. “Michelle has always been Michelle,” said the 71-year-old Robinson. “And she has always accomplished whatever it was she set out to accomplish. I have always looked up to Michelle because she has been able to do things that I couldn’t do emotionally, psychologically or physically. I think she is amazing.” Mrs. Obama was just as laudatory of her mom: “She made me who I am,” said Michelle Obama, who has two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. The first lady also discussed her responsibility to provide motherly advice to the world. “We have to talk about flex hours and exercise and nutrition and health and what that means. And we have to talk about values and our relationship with men,” she says. “All of those are part of the conversation that I think we need to have, not just in this country but around the world.” The Obama mamas might even pen a parenting book in the future, Michelle Obama said.
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