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Michelle Obama, who will become America’s First Lady on January 20, opened up about how she first met her husband, a "no-frills guy," in a television interview.
"He didn’t care about what other people thought and how he looked, and he was not into fashion but he was very much into issues. He cared more about the work that he was doing in the community than how he looked," Michelle Obama told CNN. "He always has and always will be a kind of no-frills guy." When she first learned about her future husband, she "probably did what a lot of people do when they hear about Barack Obama. First, I thought, what kind of a name is Barack Obama?" Michelle Obama told CNN. Even after hearing a lot of buzz about a "hot-shot, young, first-year law student from Harvard" in the Sidley and Austin law firm in Chicago, where she was an intern then, Michelle hesitated to go on a date with Barack as she was assigned to be his mentor. "I was taking my job (as Barack’s adviser) very seriously. That was my first responsibility as an associate. So, my mind was not focused on dating. I thought this guy is going to be a good friend of mine. I liked him. We hung out but I just did not see a relationship coming out of that," Michelle told CNN during an interview while describing her initial sentiments towards Barack. After refusing to go out with Barack for a month, finally, Michelle agreed to spend a day with him. "We had spent a month in the firm together and we were developing a very good friendship. I liked him but he insisted that we should go out on a date, so, I said OK," she said. "We went to art institute, had lunch at an outdoor cafe with jazz playing in the background, walked and talked, saw the movie Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee and had a drink on the 99th floor of the John Hancock building, ," she added. "My assumption was this guy’s got to be a little weird. I’d already created an image of this very intellectual image of this nerd." But when she got to know Obama better after he was hired at Chicago law firm Sidley Austin, where she worked, Michelle Obama said: "we clicked right away." "He told me more about his background, and he fleshed it out a bit more. I found out that his father was from Kenya, his mother was a white woman from Kansas and that he had spent part of his life in Indonesia," she said. "He was funny. He was self-deprecating. He didn’t take himself too seriously. He was very down to earth despite having come from this very exotic background compared to mine." Obama also stood out for his laid-back style, his wife added. "He came out of a community-organising background, right? So that wasn’t, you know, Wall Street-button-down wearing suits," she said. "And by the end of
my first date with him, it was over. I was sold." This is how
Michelle described her first date some 20 years back with her husband.
— Agencies
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