‘I’m the chief adviser’: Michelle Obama talks about being ‘on the other side of parenthood’ in new podcast
San Francisco, CA: Michelle Obama, the former first lady, has now plunged into the world of podcasts with her own show. In the first episode of “Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast”, she talks about her change in role as the mother of two daughters – Sasha and Malia. “I go from chief mom to chief adviser. It’s a beautiful thing – to be able to watch my daughters fly and be relieved to be like, ‘Okay, I guess I didn’t mess them up,'” she told TODAY’s Hoda Kotb . .
Michelle, who loves being a parent in her 50s more than ever, talks more about her new title and her newly evolved role. He said his relationship with his two daughters had reached a point where he no longer welcomed them with a “critical eye”. The 59-year-old even shared an incident on the podcast when Malia once walked into his hotel room in a wrinkled dress and he asked her to fix it. “You cowered – you’re going to do something about it.” And she was like, ‘Yeah, mom,'” she recalls.
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“They don’t need us to fix them”
“And then I thought I had. I greeted him instead of what I felt like ‘Sit on my lap, kiss me’ – I’m fixing things. I point to, ‘Oh my God, your hair isn’t here,’ Obama mused. “What Toni Morrison said is our kids just want us to be happy. They don’t need us to fix them,” the ex-wife said. we’re the first to show them the wrong thing.” The two girls moved out of their parents’ home together in Los Angeles. Malia, 24, currently stars in Halle Berry’s CBS sci-fi. Working as a production assistant on the drama series “Extant” and as a writer on Donald Glover’s Amazon series “Swarm.” Meanwhile, Sasha, 21, is studying psychology at the University of Southern California, according to People.
“Okay, that’s interesting”
At a promotional event for her book ‘The Light We Carry’ in November 2022, the former first lady opened up for the first time when her daughters decided to move in together. “You try not to overreact because you don’t want to say, ‘Oh my God, I’m so happy for you!’ Because then they think, ‘Well, it’s not a good thing if my mom likes it,'” she added, so I just said, ‘Well, it’s interesting that you were trying to stay together. We’ll see how it goes,’ But yeah, it’s nice to know that the two girls you raised find solace at the kitchen table with each other. C it’s like the only thing you want for them.
