Michelle Obama is Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating Person of 2009.
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]
Check out Sherri Shepherd showing off her swimsuit body on The View yesterday.
Sheri “strutted her stuff” on stage to I’m Every Woman and then said “I feel really great. I just wanted to show people that you don’t have to do anything crazy. You just have to make some choices and exercise and the weight will drop off. I hope some folks were inspired.”
Sherri made a promise to diet and work out back in May, she has since lost 5 inches from her waist and 10 inches overall. Some of her menu consisted of grilled chicken, salad and water.
On the exercising she said “I do a lot of stairs, a lot of planks, a lot of squats, a lot of treadmill, a lot of screaming — and I do it four times a week.”
The one part of her body that she will never change? Her boobs, that’s what I like to hear a woman say – “I love my boobs!”.
When asked if she would have a breast reduction she said “What?! No! I would never ever, ever, ever, I don’t care how old they get and how long they get, I’m going to love my boobs. I’d never get rid of them.”
On The View today, Barbara Walters said that the T-shirt Elisabeth Hasselbeck donned yesterday caused the show to get “e-mails and calls with people complaining.”
What was emblazoned across her chest? “Great Ameri(Mc)Cain Hero.”
With a quick roll of the eyes, Elisabeth huffed, “Well, they must all be voting for Obama.”
Responded Babs: “It’s one thing to wear it during Hot Topics but then when you’re interviewing celebrities….” She asked whether the jest then becomes “an advertisement.”
Elisabeth was quick to chime in with: “I designed the shirt. I sent it to the campaign! … That’s who my heart is for.”
And, of course, no event on The View can go by without Joy Behar throwing in her two cents. “I would wear an Obama T-shirt, she said. “But I would need shoulder pads and I don’t think that would look good.”
Do you think it was politically incorrect for Elisabeth to wear a McCain shirt on the show?
Sarah Palin sure is shaking things up isn’t she? The ladies from The View got into yet another fight over Palin, well it was mainly the women against Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
Barbara Walters jumped in (for a change) and said to Elizabeth “Every single day you never ever say, maybe there’s another point, so this is your chance. Tell us now why you think that Sarah Palin would make a very good President.”
This didn’t go down well with Elizabeth who said “Yes, I do!” she then went on to say, “well, since I’ve been studying for this pop quiz forever! I….tell me why Barack Obama is qualified. Give me three tangible things he has done.”
Of course before it could get even more heated they went to a commercial. So who do you think is in the right – Hasselbeck or the other ladies?
Did you see John McCain on ABC’s The View this morning? Well the presidential candidate said he would like the Constitution interpreted the way it was originally written to be.
Whoopi Goldberg didn’t really like this statement and said, “should I be worried about being a slave, about being returned to slavery because certain things happened in the Constitution that you had to change?”
Barbara Walters chimed in and said to Sheri Shepherd and Whoopi that “us white folk will take care of you.”
Elisabeth Hasselbeck talked smack about Michelle Obama, hinting that she must have something to hide.
Hasselbeck compared Cindy McCain, John McCain’s wife who wore a $300,000 outfit at the Republican National Convention to Michelle Obama, Barack Obama’s wife who grew up in the South Side of Chicago:
“Cindy came into our hair and make-up room fresh as can be. And unlike another wife of a political candidate, who shall remain nameless, she didn’t come with a list of topics that we weren’t allowed to touch. Nope. That’s because she has nothing to hide.”
