The top 5 times Michelle Obama got candid about her life.
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00:00I love my husband, and he is my rock, but my girlfriends are my sanity.
00:18And when you live eight years in the White House where you can't even open a window,
00:24you can't walk out on your balcony without notifying three people so that they can shut
00:29down security.
00:30When you live like that for eight years, you need your girlfriends.
00:38I went from being an executive to becoming a spouse, where the first thing people would
00:43talk about was, what shoes is she wearing?
00:47And it's like, oh no, no, people, not, you're not focusing on my shoes, right?
00:53I mean, I'm standing in front of like military families.
00:57We're doing important things, but, so yes, there were moments in my profession because
01:03the burden of child-rearing fell on me as a woman.
01:12When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter
01:18morning as I watched our girls, just seven and ten years old, pile into those black SUVs
01:25with all those big men with guns.
01:29And I saw their little faces pressed up against the window.
01:33And the only thing I could think was, what have we done?
01:39Age, you mean for me?
01:43I wasn't going to say age.
01:44I was going to say as days go by.
01:45It's okay.
01:46With wisdom.
01:47I'm 50.
01:48I think everybody in the country knows that.
01:49But, you know, quite frankly, I think everything gets better with age.
01:53You're more confident.
01:54You know yourself more.
01:56You're not concerned about what other people think.
02:03I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations.
02:08Was I too loud or too angry or too emasculating?
02:13Or was I too soft?
02:17Too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman.
02:22Then there was the first time I was on a magazine cover.
02:26It was a cartoon drawing of me with a huge Afro and a machine gun.
02:31Now, yeah, it was satire.
02:35But if I'm really being honest, that knocked me back a bit.
02:39It made me wonder, well, just how are people seeing me?