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Michelle Obama Reveals: ‘My Daughters Had Their First Kisses Around Armed Guards!!’

By | July 9, 2019

Best-selling author Michelle Obama also weighed in on the inauguration day, when they actually had to move out. “The truth is, on that day I was moving my children out of the only house they had really grown up in. I think that gets lost on people. So anyway, the girls didn’t get up, I’m like get up and get out of here, and they’re all crying and they have their teddy bears and they’re moving slow and I’m like, you’ve got to get up and get out of this house. And I don’t know where these kids are going, but they had to get up and out of that house. So you’ve got tears and I’m pushing people out of freight elevators and my kids are crying — I don’t know where they going — all of that was happening and the staff was crying.”

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And lastly, shared how difficult it was for her to try and do everything as it should be, because people judged her even more for her skin color. “So look around of a crowd that was not reflective of the country and I had to sit in that audience, one of a handful of people of color, all that I had sort of held on to for eight years watching my husband get raked over the coals feeling like we had to do everything perfectly so that by the time I got on that plane it was a release of eight years of having to show up as we all know we have to do not only perfectly, but a little bit better than perfect to even be considered equal.”
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