Barbara Walters Announces Her 10 Most Fascinating People

Michelle Obama is Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating Person of 2009.

Barbara Walters Announces Her 10 Most Fascinating People

Almost a year since the Obama family moved to Washington, D.C., the first lady reflected on the transition to the White House.

“It has been a whirlwind. But it’s been amazing,” she told Walters. “I mean, if you think about this year, I had to get these two beautiful girls settled into a new city, into a new home, into a new school. We got a dog. I visited eight countries with my husband. I planted a garden. I’ve started a mentoring program. It has been everything. And now, here we are at our first Christmas in the White House.”

During her tenure as first lady, Obama has promoted healthy living and taken steps to combat childhood obesity — creating a vegetable garden on the White House lawn and holding health fairs with exercise stations for kids.

“I think I’ve begun to lay the foundation to a conversation about the health of our kids — particularly when we’re looking at statistics that say that one in three kids in this country are obese, and those numbers increase if you’re African-American or Hispanic,” she said. “So we’re going to spend a lot more time on that issue in the years to come.”

Relieved it’s her. I was convinced it would be Taylor Swift or Stephanie Meyers. Michelle Obama is totes fascinating. The fact that she’s really active and is doing something different and really reaching out to people in simple ways, I love it.

source: Exclusive: Michelle Obama on ‘Whirlwind’ Year [abc news]

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Barbara Walters Announces Her 10 Most Fascinating People

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