During her book tour for her new memoir, Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama has made a habit of surprising people with her unfiltered responses to questions — but also just literally surprising them.
On December 1, before an event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, she surprised about two dozen teenage girls at the Lower Eastside Girls Club in Manhattan, according to ABC 13.
The girls were originally there to hear former White House chef Sam Kass talk about healthy eating and what he used to feed the former first family for dinner. Kass helped set up the surprise from the Obamas' mama with some dinner conversation.
“If the First Lady was coming over for dinner, what would you cook her?” Kass asked the middle and high school girls on Saturday afternoon, according to Vanity Fair. The girls clarified which First Lady he was referring to. After all, the girls pushed, they’d cook a very different meal for Michelle Obama than any other First Lady, Vanity Fair reported.
That’s when Michelle Obama walked up behind Kass and grabbed his shoulders. The girls screamed, cheered, cried, and hugged each other in excitement.
“You can ask everything,” Obama told the group.
“They’re very smart,” Kass responded. “They’ve already hit me with, like, the tough questions.”
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Obama brought some grub with her, too: The girls had grain bowls with kale, green beans, sweet potatoes, beets, eggs, and more, according to Vanity Fair, before sitting down for a listening lunch.
“I’m Michelle, and I’m 54,” Obama started, according to Vanity Fair, encouraging the girls to share their names and ages. They told her about struggling to make healthy food choices, getting involved in their communities, and being the only Girls Club in a city that has three similar organizations for boys.
They also asked her a question that has become predictably prevalent on her book tour: Why won’t she run for president?
She said, according to Vanity Fair, that her daughters Sasha and Malia “are getting their lives back” and added that she believes “it’s important for leaders to do their thing and then move aside and make space for the next generation.” Then she added: “I don’t want to be president.”
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