Michelle Obama Admits She Had to Sacrifice Her ‘Aspirations’ to Have Kids

May 8, 2020

(L to R) U.S. President Barack Obama speaks as his daughters Sasha and Malia look on before pardoning “Cheese” and his alternate Mac both, 20-week old 48-pound Turkeys, during a ceremony at the White House November 26, 2014 in Washington, DC. The Presidential pardon of a turkey has been a long time Thanksgiving tradition that dates back to the Harry Truman administration.
(Nov. 25, 2014 – Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)

*Former first lady Michelle Obama admits in her new Netflix documentary that having daughters Malia and Sasha was a “concession” that forced her to give up her “aspirations and dreams.”

The film was released Wednesday and takes us behind the scenes of Michelle’s celebrated book tour, and gives a “unplugged” look at her life after the white house.

The streaming giant describe the doc as “an intimate documentary looking at her life, hopes, and connection with others as she tours with ‘Becoming,’” her book that was released in 2018.

“My relationship with Barack was all about our partnership,” Obama said. “If I was going to have an equal voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up. I had to set myself off to a place where I was confident that I was going to be his equal.”

“The thing that really changed it was the birth of our children. I wasn’t really ready for that. That really made it harder,” she explained. “Something had to give, and it was my aspirations and dreams.

Michelle added, “I made that concession not because he said, ‘You have to quit your job,’ but it felt like ‘I can’t do all of this, so I have to tone down my aspirations, I have to dial it back.'”

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Meanwhile, Malia and Sasha, give their first public interview in their mother’s new Netflix documentary.

“I’m excited for her to be proud of what she’s done, because I think that that’s the most important thing for a human to do, is be proud of themselves,” says Sasha, 18, who just finished her freshman year at the University of Michigan, according to OprahMag.com. Malia, a junior at Harvard, notes that her mother is “no longer facing that same scrutiny—being able to let all of that leave your mind, creates so much more space.”

Obama told Gayle at the Essence Festival in 2019, she and Barack raised their daughters to “pretend like all the craziness around them wasn’t happening,” while growing up in the White House.

“For eight years, we were like, ‘Yup, your dad’s president.’ That doesn’t have anything to do with you. Take your butt to school. Yes, you have security, just ignore them, they’re not here for you,'” Obama said. Adding, “My kids had armed guards with them at all times. Imagine trying to have your first kiss [around] a bunch of men [with guns] and ear pieces.”

Last month, Michelle told Ellen DeGeneres that she and the family are all at home quarantining together amid the COVID-19 crisis.

“The girls are back because colleges are now online. So they’re off in their respective rooms doing their online classes,” she said.