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Michelle Obama’s mother looks up to her
Michelle Obama’s mom is the latest to sing the First Lady’s praises.
In an interview with Essence, Marian Robinson says, “Michelle has always been Michelle. And she has always accomplished whatever it was she set out to accomplish. I have always looked up to Michelle because she has been able to do things that I couldn’t do emotionally, psychologically or physically. I think she is amazing.”
She says Michelle’s late father, Fraser would be equally impressed.
“You would not be able to shut him up! He would not be able to stand this,” the 71-year-old Robinson told the magazine in its May issue on stands this week. “He would be beaming until you would just want him to stop talking.”
While mothers and daughters can have difficult relationships, this pair is clearly in tune, Afterall, Michelle moved her mother into the White House to help with the children. (Come to think of it, her relationship with the president must be pretty good, too.)
Of her mother, the first lady says, “She talked to us endlessly about any and everything with a level of openness and fearlessness that made us believe that we were bright enough to engage with an adult, that we were worthy enough to ask questions and to get really serious answers — and she did it with a level of humor. There were many times when we were in the midst of getting spanked or disciplined and she would start cracking up. She taught my brother and me not to take things so seriously; to work hard, but to learn to laugh at situations and laugh at yourself and then to move through it.”
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