Michelle Obama

And it was interesting, I'd always get the question leading up to the campaign, well, what do you wanna accomplish as first lady?

And my first answer was, first of all, I wanna make sure my kids are whole.

So me being a good mother in this, me and Barack being good parents in this, it didn't mean that we weren't gonna work hard, but if you wanna know what my priority was, a lot of parents is making sure that my kids weren't destroyed by this thing we're doing, that they ended up whole.

And I thought by saying that, that that wasn't controversial.

It was just like, we have kids and they've gotta go to school, they have security.

And so I'm gonna have to focus on that.

just like all of us as women mothers do.

We're multitasking and we're doing it all the time.

And I was doing it before I landed there.

But it was always interesting and people would be like, well, how do you know what to do in this role?

And to me, it was clear that, oh my God, you don't know anything about what I did before I came here.

Like you don't like, you know, and you don't want to, but I was like, well, I went to Princeton and Harvard.

I mean, I practiced law.

I was an assistant to the mayor in Chicago.

I ran a nonprofit of 501C3.

I built a board.

I was a vice president for community relations at the University of Chicago hospitals.

I was a dean of students.

I was like, wow.

Oh, you guys, all of that just disappeared in the course of this whole election, and you now see me as just Barack Obama's wife.