Ew! skit: Ferrell and Michelle Obama
Fallon, Will Ferrell and Michelle Obama perform in a Ew! skit in which Obama teaches Sara(Fallon) and Stacy(Ferrell) that being active and eating right isn’t ew.
Michelle Obama Interview
Fallon talks to the First Lady about two major White House initiatives: Let’s Move and the Affordable Care Act.
What we’re asking people to do is show us how you’re moving. We want people to Facebook it, Tweet it, Instagram it.
Michelle Obama interview
Seacrest interviews Michelle Obama during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about her Valentines Day plans.
He [President Obama] celebrated me so well—he did a great job. I had a great couple of weeks, so I think we’re going to low-key it for Valentine’s Day. It feels like we just finished celebrating my birthday so I think we are going to low-key it.
Vogue cover
Obama appears on the cover of the April 2013 issue of Vogue in her own dress.
I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do … I also believe that if you’re comfortable in your clothes it’s easy to connect with people and make them feel comfortable as well. In every interaction that I have with people, I always want to show them my most authentic self.
Evolution Of Mom Dancing
In support of Michelle Obama Let’s Move campaign, and to encourage parents everywhere to get up and get moving with their kids, Fallon and Obama present different mom dances over the years. The two perform dances such as raise the roof, the hip bump, the sprinkler, the reel it in and several other dances.
Essence cover
Obama and her mother, Marian Shields Robinson, appear on the cover of Essence magazine. Obama discusses style and remaining true to yourself.
O Magazine interview
First Lady Michelle Obama gives an interview to Oprah for O Magazine about her first week in the White House.
Well, we still had family here, so it was almost like a wedding. A huge, very complicated wedding. The last visitors didn’t leave until Sunday. And then the first Monday was kind of weird. You know: Now we live here, and Barack is getting up and going to work, and it’s just us. This is our home now. But the kids didn’t act any differently.
O Magazine Cover
Obama speaks about living in The White House:
And it’s a beautiful home. When you go out and come back, especially at night, with all the white lights on—it’s just beautiful. We feel privileged, and we feel a responsibility to make it feel like the people’s house. We have the good fortune of being able to sleep here, but this house belongs to America.
People cover
The Obamas appear on the cover of People giving a view into their hectic home life. Michelle on whether she envisioned her husband running for president:
Whooo-boy! No. To me, life was you get married, you have kids, you buy a home. I thought Barack would be a partner at a law firm or maybe teach or work in the community. We’d watch our kids go to college and go to their weddings and take care of the grandkids and that was it.
Robinson, Obama marry
After three years of dating Barack Obama marries Michelle Robinson at Trinity United Church in Chicago, Illinois. At the wedding, their first dance is to Stevie Wonder’s You and I. Michelle says that in Barack’s vows, he promises her a life that will be interesting. At the time she is 28 and he is 31.
Graduates from Princeton
Obama graduates from Princeton with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in African-American Studies. During her time at Princeton, she is a member of the Third World Center and Organization of Black Unity. She graduates with cum laude honors. About her freshman year she says,
Neither of my parents graduated from college, so when I got to campus as a freshman, I’ll admit I was a little overwhelmed. I didn’t know how to choose my classes, or find the right classrooms. I didn’t know how to furnish my own dorm room.
Michelle Obama born in Chicago
Michelle Lavaughn Robinson is born in Chicago, Illinois to Fraser Robinson III and Marian Shields Robinson. Michelle is the second child to brother, Craig Robinson.
Her early education includes Bryn Mawr Elementary School and Whitney Young Magnet High School. As a high school student, Michelle is the Student Council Treasurer and a member of the National Honor Society. Her father dies of multiple sclerosis in 1990, leaving her mom to raise her and her brother in their South Side home.