Princess Politics #2

Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama was born as Michelle LaVaughn Robinson on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. She was raised in a one bedroom apartment by her father, Fraser Robinson, a city pump operator and a Democratic precinct captain and mother, Marian, a Spiegel’s secretary. She was often mistaken to be her brother Craig as they were 21 months apart in age. Michelle learnt J.D from Harvard Law School in 1988 after which she worked as an associate in a law firm called Sidly Austin in the area for marketing and intellectual property. In 1989, she was assigned as an advisor to Barack Obama who was a summer intern and soon their relationship began. Two years post-dating, the couple got married at Trinity United Church of Christ on October 3, 1992. Michelle Obama first caught the public’s attention while at her husband’s side when he delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 on being elected as U.S Senate from Illinois. In 2007, Michelle helped attend family and campaign obligations and look after their daughters, Malia and Sasha, during Barack Obama’s presidential nomination. It was at the first session of Democratic National Convention in NYC, when Michelle’s fashion was exposed to the national audience when she entered in a pretty pink and gold toile Tracy Reese dress. Following that, she kept surprising us with bold prints and structured silhouettes wearing green-blue Barbara Tfank at a Kids’ “States Dinner” and an embellished J. Mendel jacket on a white pleated dress on her 2nd visit to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Michelle kept the bar up high by wearing floral and color-blocked dresses with pastel cardigans for campaign events, fundraisers and interviews that had us go GUAU!! But when the First Lady wears a Michael Korrs black one-shoulder with a gold Dior belt, an elegant blue Jason Wu dress or a bottle-green Marchesa gown for major formal events, she pulls off to be a hero and a diva, at the same time.