First lady Michelle Obama told television host Rachael Ray on Monday that she doesn’t
think life in the White House, or the fame of becoming the first
family, has changed the Obamas.
“I don’t consider us famous,” Obama said. “Things at the White House
are surprisingly the same for us as a family. I talk to the girls
about this, because I told them this experience should remind them
that home is wherever we are, whether it’s on the South Side of
Chicago or in the White House. It’s us.”
In a pre-taped show that served as the daytime talk show’s season
seven premiere, the first lady and Ray made broccoli and cheese turkey
burgers and challenged each other in a few of the exercises from the
newly revamped Presidential Youth Fitness Program.
Obama also played a game of “pop the question,” using
balloons and darts, to answer questions from the show’s Twitter
followers and Facebook fans.
“Now, I can hula hoop but I don’t know about darts,” she said, but
only missed once. She confirmed that the Obamas play “would you
rather” at the dinner table and answered questions about which school
subjects her daughters prefer and said her own least favorite is math.
“I try to pass the math off onto Barack, but sometimes he’s busy,” she said.
She said the first meal she made for her husband was gumbo.
"I was so ambitious. I made gumbo. I was really trying to impress
him,” she said. “I got my mom’s recipe for gumbo, and I bought all the
stuff, and it turned out really well, I think. ... He thought he was
going to eat like that all the time.”
