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Michelle Obama On The Covers Of Vogue's April 2013 Issue!..Talks The "Stresses & Pressures" of Her Job!
March 14, 2013GWL Staff
Despite her financial information exposed by online hackers earlier this week, First Lady Michelle Obama is gracing the April 2013 issue of Vogue Magazine.
During a sit down the magazine, Mrs. Obama talked about the stresses and pressures of her job (being the First Lady of the President, a wife and mother) along with her daughters (Natasha and Malia) living a normal and happy life.
Here's the highlights:
On her daughters talking about their friends having babies:
"They are quick to point out that most of their friends have kids themselves, and that when they go on vacation, usually with longtime family friends and relatives, they end up with a houseful of children."On the stresses and pressures of her job:
“The stresses and the pressures of this job are so real that when you get a minute, you want to give that extra energy to your fourteen- and eleven-year-old. . . .” “Although,” her husband says, a big grin spreading across his face, “as I joked at a press conference, now that they want less time with us, who knows? Maybe you’ll see us out in the clubs.”
Saturday night!” says the First Lady. “The kids are out with their friends. Let’s go party!”Her husband then adds:
“ ‘The Obamas are out in the club again?’ ” says the president, laughing. “What is true,” he says, more seriously, “is that we probably—even before we came to Washington—had already settled in a little bit to parenthood. And. . . .” Here he pauses in the way that only President Obama can. “Let’s put it this way: I did anawful lot of socializing in my teens and 20s.
“But what is also true,” he says, “is that the culture in Washington has changed in ways that probably haven’t been great for the way this place runs. . . . When you talk to the folks who were in the Senate or the House back in the sixties, seventies, eighties, there was much less pressure to go back and forth to your home state. . . . Campaigns weren’t as expensive. So a lot of members of Congress bought homes here in the area; their kids went to school here; they ended up socializing in part because their families were here. By the time I got to the Senate, that had changed. Michelle and the girls, for example, stayed in Chicago, and I had this little bachelor apartment that Michelle refused to stay in because she thought it was a little, uh. . . .”
Michelle then responds to her husbands comments with, "Yikes." But Barack didn't stop there as he says:
“You know, pizza boxes everywhere,” he says. “When she came, I had to get a hotel room.” The First Lady leans in toward me. “That place caught on fire.”
“It did end up catching on fire,” says the president sheepishly.
Michelle then adds:
“And I was like, I told you it was a dump,” she says. Her husband continues, “As a consequence, I think, when the Washington press writes about this, part of what they’re longing for has less to do with us; it has to do with an atmosphere here where there was more of a community in Washington, which did result, I think, in less polarization.
Because if your kids went to school together and you’re seeing each other at ball games and church, then Democrats and Republicans had a sense that this is not just perpetual campaigning and political warfare.”
“The Secret Service has to change the way they do things; they have to become more flexible. And they do. Because they want to make sure that these girls are happy and that they have a normal life. . . . There’s a lot of energy that goes into working with staff, working with agents, working with friends’ parents to figure out how do we, you know, let these kids go to the party and have a sleepover and walk through the city on their own, go to the game. Any parent knows that these are the times when you’re just a scheduler and chauffeur for your kids.
And that doesn’t change for us. Ninety percent of our conversation is about these girls: What are they doing? And who’s got what practice? And what birthday party is coming up? And did we get a gift for this person? You know, I mean, it is endless and it gets to be pretty exhausting, and if you take your eye off the ball,that’s when their lives become inelastic,” she says emphatically. “So it requires us to be there and be present so that we can respond and have the system respond to their needs. . . . And he’s doing it while still dealing with Syria and health care. He’s as up on every friend, every party, every relationship. . . . And if you’re out at dinner every night, you miss those moments where you can check in and just figure them out when they’re ready to share with you.”
Be sure to read more here.
9 comments
hmmmm,,, well it looks like she is starting to grow into her bangs. Like the cover and the slightly shorter bangs!
ReplyDeleteshe looks nice really nice, simple classy and the first lady
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!!!so proud of them, love this famliy.
ReplyDeleteHer job? First lady is a job now?
ReplyDeleteYeees!!!..A Magnificent job!!
DeleteI love the photo of them together. So elegant.
ReplyDeleteI do love the editorial, not the cover though.
ReplyDeleteAll of a sudden Michelle is smokin' hot. She has never looked better! She gets better with age.
ReplyDeleteImpressive
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