Michelle Obama says Malia and Sasha aren't thrilled about being with parents: 'Our kids got a little sick of us'
Former First Lady Michelle Obama revealed in a recent virtual interview that her daughters Malia and Sasha are just like other college kids, who are "sick" of their parents after being forced to be cooped up in their homes with mom and dad due to the pandemic lockdown.
On the Wednesday, September 23 episode of 'Conan', the mother-of-two said that while the initial phases of the pandemic were great with the family coming together for precious bonding time, all of that gradually vanished. “We’ve kind of had phases of Covid. There were sort of the early stages where we were excited to be together and we were being all organized and we would spend our respective days apart doing our own work. The girls were still in classes in the spring, so we would be working then do a little exercise and coming together in the evenings and we would have these activities," she said.
Michelle’s household in the Kalorama area of Washington DC seemed to be a blissful place with a picture-perfect family. “We would have cocktails and then we would work puzzles and play games. Barack taught the girls how to play Spades. We actually had some organized things. Like we had an art exhibit day where we all went off and did watercolor paintings and then we showed it. This was in the early stages. We were still fresh,” Michelle explained.
But as months went by where Malia and Sasha were forced to continue their college classes virtually via Zoom while being holed up with their parents, the delight of family-time subsided. And as it turned out, the feeling of exhaustion was mutual. “First our kids got a little sick of us, which was fine because we were pretty much sick of them,” Michelle admitted.
What helped them survive summer with each other was a change of scenery. The Obamas headed to their new $17.5 million home in Martha’s Vineyard to spend the summer, where they are still staying. “And so the summer started happening and then we could be outside a little more and we came to the vineyard, where we still are. So there’s more room to roam around. We can go on bikes. That was good, cause it helped us break it up,” she revealed.
Both the girls have resumed their coursework remotely. Malia is working on her senior year at Harvard, while Sasha is a sophomore at the University of Michigan. “And now the kids are back in Zoomland with classes. They’re doing it remotely and they’re no longer thrilled about being with us,” Michelle lamented.
However, former President Barack Obama made good use of quarantine by working on his highly-anticipated memoirs. “Barack is finishing his book, as it was just announced his books are going to be published after the election. So he’s actually spent most of the summer locked away writing the book, so he’s had limited time to get on my nerves. But then he’s sort of got on my nerves cause I haven’t seen him enough. He can’t win,” Michelle laughed.
After the show's host noted that Barack was going to have tough competition with Michelle's autobiography 'Becoming' turning out to be 2019’s biggest selling non-fiction book, the former first lady added, “His book is a little bigger, a little more ‘historical’ as he would say. We’ve managed. We’re still together and he’s still alive. That is the perfect sign that we’re making it through."