In their first joint magazine cover, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden grace the April 24 issue of PARADE magazine to discuss their first joint project, Joining Forces, which supports and honors the families of the nation’s service members.
The First Lady mentioned:
When I started campaigning for my husband, I wanted to meet with groups of women to make sure their stories were a part of the conversation in his campaign and potentially in his administration. Everywhere I went there were military spouses, and their stories took my breath away – the pain of multiple deployments, trying to keep the family afloat. I remember sitting and crying with a group of them. Studies show that many military families feel like the country doesn’t recognize or appreciate (them). And it breaks my heart, because they’re serving as passionately and deeply and proudly as the men and women in uniform.
Dr. Biden added: “We just need to say to America, ‘Wake up. You need to support these families and we need to lift them up and really value them.’”
Check out more snippets from the exclusive interview below. Continue
First Lady Michelle Obama enlisted Beyoncé to help spread the word about her Let’s Move! campaign against childhood obesity in America. Bey re-recorded “Get Me Bodied” as “Move Your Body”, and the workout video to accompany the track is above.
On Monday’s broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk radio show in the country, Rush Limbaugh called First Lady Michelle Obama a hypocrite after she reportedly ate “pickled pumpkin salad with arugula and a braised ancho-chile short rib with hominy wild mushrooms and sauteed kale” while on vacation in Vail, Colorado, with daughters Malia and Sasha over the President’s Day weekend.
Limbaugh explained:
Michelle My Belle, minus the husband, took the kids out to Vail on a ski vacation, and they were spotted eating and they were feasting on ribs, ribs that were 1,575 calories per serving with 141 grams of fat per serving. Now I’m sure some of you members of the new castrati: “This is typical of what you do Mr. Limbaugh, you take an isolated, once in a lifetime experience, and try to say that she’s a hypocrite.” She is a hypocrite. Leaders are supposed to be leaders. If we’re supposed to go out and eat nothing — if we’re supposed to eat roots, and berries and tree bark and so show us how. And if it’s supposed to make us fit, if it’s supposed to make us healthier, show us how.
In addition to disrespecting the First Lady by calling her a hypocrite and showing a blatant disregard for “the husband” perhaps better known as the President of the United States Barack Obama, Limbaugh went on to say “our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you”. Continue
First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated the one-year anniversary of her “Let’s Move” campaign on Wednesday (February 9) by sitting down with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today and discussing a variety of topics such as childhood obesity, the President’s smoking and a normal life for their daughters, Sasha and Malia.
She then headed over to Live with Regis and Kelly for a lighter chat and informed them she would not be attending Prince William’s wedding later this spring (unless she was invited) and shared what goes down (or doesn’t) in the presidential bedroom. Check out a clip below. Continue
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