Michelle Obama Reveals What It's Really Like Being With Sasha And Malia

Forget a date with the president's daughter when you can be a fly on the wall at dinnertime with the Obamas. Although we imagine former President Barack Obama sitting at the head of the table with his tie undone as he and wife Michelle Obama compare their efforts for social justice in a day's work, it's harder to picture daughters Malia and Sasha Obama's contribution to the conversation, since they try to stay under the radar as much as possible.

However, Michelle has said that her girls are a force to be reckoned with and rule the roost at home — or at least the topic of conversation for the day. "If you sit around the dinner table, me and Barack, we can't get a word in edgewise and we like it like that," the proud mama said to Good Morning America's Robin Roberts in March 2021, while discussing how she encourages them to be independent thinkers. "We want to hear their thoughts and their opinions, and that's where it begins." 

This isn't the first time Michelle has spoken about encouraging her daughters to speak up. "It's up to us, as mothers and mother-figures, to give the girls in our lives the kind of support that keeps their flame lit and lifts up their voices — not necessarily with our own words, but by letting them find the words themselves," she wrote in a Mother's Day essay for People in 2019. Keep scrolling for more details about what Sasha and Malia Obama are like behind closed doors.