Because don’t all “normal” women wear $500 boots to garden with? Errr, maybe not.
Michelle Obama on dating, exercise and keeping it real — Mail & Guardian
“How do you get Barack to believe he’s in charge?”
You had to forgive the cheeky question. The person asking it, popular radio personality Anele Mdoda, had been waiting in ridiculously high heels in one spot for over an hour for the world’s favourite first lady to arrive for a photo opportunity, along with 74 other young African women chosen by their US embassies.
Michelle Obama, glowing with enthusiasm, immediately burst into laughter.
“A good man is happy with a strong woman,” she said, before launching into a girly chat about the type of men we should let into our lives.
“That’s why I fell in love with Barack. I met him way before he was president and he was just so comfortable with himself and he accepted me with all my . . . stuff.”
Any other star-struck comments were met with: “I’m so normal. My husband teases me all the time, ‘Stop being so normal,’ he says.”