Michelle Obama Says Keeping Malia Obama and Sasha Obama Out of Tabloids Was “Nightmare”
One thing no government official can control is the “Obama tax.”
That’s what former first lady Michelle Obama calls the pressures that Sasha Obama, 23, and Malia Obama, 26, experience as daughters of former President Barack Obama.
“We call that the Obama tax for them,” she quipped during an April 29 appearance on SiriusXM’s Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa. “You’ll have it the rest of your life, but you also have a lot of benefits.”
And while her daughters may feel like they get treated differently than other twenty-somethings, Michelle explained that their extended family ultimately helped take the pressure off Malia and Sasha during their younger years in the White House, noting, “Because it’s not the house, it’s who’s in it. My brother, my sister-in-law, my nieces and nephews, they helped to stabilize things and I’m grateful that they were willing to be on that journey with us.”
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