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Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama (née Robinson) is the First Lady of the United States as she is the wife of the 44th President, Barack Obama. She is the first African-American First Lady, and met her husband while working at a law firm in Chicago, Illinois. Born and raised in the notorious South Side of Chicago, she attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before working at Sidley Austin, the law firm where she met her husband. Obama also worked for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and the University of Chicago Medical Centre, before in 2007/8 helping her husband in his Presidential campaign.

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Obama makes plea to Congress over affordable health care for millions

10.09.09
President Obama made an impassioned plea for America to accept his planned shake-up of the health care system.... more

Michelle Obama's message to parents

21.08.09
First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on Sesame Street to promote exercise and healthy food. She said: "If you want your child to have healthy habits, practise healthy habits because you're your child's best role model"... more

WORLD: Obama’s talks on abortion with the Pope

25.06.09
Barack Obama is to be given an audience with the Pope when he travels to Italy next month... more

Obamas in tourist trip to abbey

09.06.09
They may be America's First Family but Michelle Obama with children in tow did what all tourists do when in London - they visited Westminster Abbey... more

Michelle Obama takes a style tip from Diana Ross

06.05.09
Michelle Obama ported a new sleeker look as she appeared at a gala in New York... more

Obama's best-sellers boost family's income to $2.6m income

16.04.09
Barack and Michelle Obama took home a combined income of more than $2.6million last year... more

Prudence is a shoe-in for Mrs O

02.04.09
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President makes a beeline for JK and says I love Harry Potter

02.04.09
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Arm in arm with Ma'am, Michelle has a royal touch

02.04.09
The gesture was an unquestionably friendly and reciprocal one, a natural reaction from a woman with a warm and obviously tactile nature... more

Sparkling, bright and sharp ... and that’s just Mrs O’s fashion sense

01.04.09
Let's be positive and see Michelle Obama's wardrobe thus far as a metaphor for all the sparkling, bright change the G20 summit will effect... more

Bluffer's guide to the G20 summit

01.04.09
What to expect over the next few days...... more

Come on Sarah, you can compete with Carla

27.03.09
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Glossy photocalls and charity lunches for the first wives club

27.03.09
A full programme has been arranged for the partners of the world's leaders attending the G20 summit although security considerations are preventing disclosure of its details until the last minute... more

iPod man will keep President tuned in

25.03.09
Barack Obama will be accompanied by his personal "body man" when he comes to London next week... more

Michelle and Sarah hold wives' summit

02.03.09
Sarah Brown and Michelle Obama will hold a "Spouses' Summit" in Washington... more

Michelle Obama joins Vogue's front cover elite

11.02.09
Michelle Obama has become the first lady of American fashion, appearing on the cover of the March issue of Vogue... more

Glamour lite is my new way to beat the big chill

22.01.09
The editor of a fashion glossy tells me she is torn between two extremes in the current climate: escapism and realism... more

Generation O hails Obama the hero

21.01.09
More than a million people joined Barack Obama’s inauguration party in scenes that could have come straight out of Hollywood. But behind the razzmatazz America found a profound new hope... more

First Lady of fashion has a bright future

21.01.09
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Washington goes into lockdown for security nightmare

19.01.09
The biggest security operation in history is being mobilised for Barack Obama's inauguration tomorrow... more

Dress of the decade

19.01.09
Has Michelle chosen her inaugural frock yet? Here we pick the likely designers... more

Michelle O: the US 'mom in chief' who gets the last word

19.01.09
Michelle Obama boarded the presidential train in Philadelphia at the weekend as a political wife and mother - and arrives in Washington as the new First Lady... more

All power to Michelle in this Obama revolution

06.11.08
Can there be any more exciting news than America electing its first black president? Yes: America getting its first black First Lady, Michelle Obama... more

Will Michelle be the radical in the Oval Office?

05.11.08
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Queuing in the morning sun for Obama, hoping for a new dawn

03.11.08
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The career woman who is set to shine as Supermom-in-Chief

31.10.08
America's "mom in chief" is Michelle Obama's description of her anticipated future as presidential consort... more

Denver's lesson - get serious on style

28.08.08
Michelle Obama hit the stage this week at the Denver Convention with all the self-assurance of a woman who had spent years of public speaking, despite never having done it on such a scale before... more

Clinton buries the hatchet and says: Barack is our man

27.08.08
Hillary Clinton emphatically gave her support to Barack Obama and embraced his bid for the American presidency... more

Michelle will be a fine feisty First Lady

23.06.08
A friend saw Laura Bush recently told me how "poised" our First Lady was: "petite" and "gracious", a "listener", not a talker... more

Give me Michelle over Hillary any day

19.05.08
It was an intensely political evening. First, the premiere of the amazing new film Recount, starring Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary, turned the dry legal arguments about "hanging chads" in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election into fascinating drama. Then screens hung down at New York's Four Seasons restaurant so we could watch the results come in from the polls in West Virginia... more

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  • Michelle Obama is the mother of two daughters; Malia and Sasha Obama, and is the sister of Oregon State University basketball coach Craig Robinson
  • While at Princeton University, Michelle Obama studied sociology, with a ‘minor’ (concentration without a qualification) in African-American studies, where she graduated cum laude in 1985
  • During the Presidential campaign, Michelle Obama was labelled an ‘angry black woman’ by some media sources. Mrs. Obama shrugged off these comments, but later in the campaign she was noted to be projecting a softer character to the public, appearing less on news sources and more on women’s talk shows and appearing in publications such as Ladies’ Home Journal
  • In 2006, Essence magazine put Mrs. Obama the list of the ’25 of the World’s Most Inspiring Women’.
  • Mrs. Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs – a nonpartisan organisation that encourages the discourse of world issues by contributing to opinion and public learning

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