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Our First Lady helps kids get fit this week on the east coast. Find out what happened inside now.
Michelle Obama is asking thousands of Detroit-area students to rise up and become the next great leaders of the city and the country. Find out what else she had to say inside now.
The First Lady's brother pens new book on growing up in a black family striving to be successful. Read more on what Craig Robinson has to say.
Some are saying, Michelle Obama is filling a role that Barack Obama seems less inclined to fill: serving as a kind of bridge from the White House to black America in much the same way that she functioned during the campaign.
When she moved to the nation’s most prestigious address, Michelle Obama’s husband told her that rough times were ahead. The country was in recession, people were out of work, the political parties were in open warfare — and the man who was going to be blamed for it all was President Barack Obama. But you won’t hear the first lady utter a peep of complaint. Watch her interview with Matt Lauer here.
Who's the better gift giver: Barack or Michelle? The first lady says she is.
First Lady Michelle Obama was named Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating Person of 2009. “”It has been a whirlwind. But it’s been amazing. I mean, if you think about this year, I had to get these two beautiful girls settled into a new city, into a new home, into a new school. We got a dog. I visited eight countries with my husband. I planted a garden. I’ve started a mentoring program. It has been everything. And now, here we are at our first Christmas in the White House,” the first lady said on Walters’ special, which aired on ABC Wednesday night. She also spoke of her famously toned arms. Other most fascinating people of the year included Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert.
Looking glamorous in an elegant strapless gown by Indian-American designer Naeem Khan, Michelle Obama welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Mrs. Gursharan Kaur to the White House Tuesday night and ushered in the Obama administration's first official state dinner