Former first lady Michelle Obama is setting the record straight on whether she will soon make a presidential run.
On Thursday (March 20), Obama appeared on the “Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce” podcast, where she addressed the possibility of making a bid for the White House.
The former first lady revealed she has no intentions of following in the footsteps of her husband, Barack Obama, largely due to their two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
“The day-to-day kind of challenges that any parent has with teenagers, we had it on 100,” Obama told podcast host Kylie Kelce of her husband’s time in the Oval Office. “I was so glad when we got out of the White House. I wanted them to have the freedom of not having the eyes of the world on them.”
Obama noted that her daughters, who were eight and 10 years old when the family moved into the White House, spent the bulk of their childhood in the public eye.
“When we entered, I’m thinking, how do I make sure that they’re normal and ready when this is all over, right? They have to get on a bus, make their own plane reservations, and live in an apartment, and have decent friends, and be sane in the world,” “The Light We Carry” author said.
“You start realizing that in the teen years because I wanted to give my girls enough rope to live and be normal teenagers, but I also worry about them turning up on Page Six because they were doing what normal kids would do without that many eyes on them,” she added.
Their experiences, Obama said, have contributed to her move to not run for president.
“So when people ask me would I ever run? The answer is no,” Obama said. “If you ask me that, then you have absolutely no idea the sacrifice that your kids make when your parents are in that role.”
The idea of putting her daughters back into the spotlight is unthinkable, the former first lady added.
“Question asked and answered — never going to happen,” Obama said. “They’ve already served their time.”
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