President Obama Said The Sweetest Thing About Michelle

Publish date
Wednesday, 16 Mar 2016, 10:16AM

President Obama says he thinks his daughters are lucky because they have a great body image role model: their “gorgeous” mother.

The President recently sat down with Time to discuss body image, empowering young women, and fatherhood.

Obama talked about how raising two girls has helped him learn about the body image pressure that women face.

“When I was a kid, I didn’t realize as much, or maybe it was even a part of, which is the enormous pressure that young women are placed under in terms of looking a certain way,” he said.

These pressures are even more challenging for African-American women, he added.

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“I mean, Malia’ll talk about black girls’ hair and will have much opinions of that,” Obama said of his daughter. “And she’s pretty opinionated about the fact that it costs a lot, it takes a long time, that sometimes girls can be just as tough on each other about how they’re supposed to look.”

But he says his daughters are lucky to have a mum who has "curves":

“The fact that they’ve got a tall, gorgeous mom who has some curves, and that their father appreciates, I think is helpful,” he said.

Awww, bless! 

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