Michelle Obama revealed her youngest daughter Sasha was ‘difficult’ for her husband Barack to parent in the latest episode of her podcast.
The former First Lady, 61, was discussing raising her daughters Malia, 26, and Sasha, 24, on the latest episode of IMO, the podcast she hosts with her brother Craig Robinson.
And she was quick to take a dig at her husband, the former President of the United States, as rumors continue to swirl over the state of their marriage.
The mother-of-two opened up about their children to her guests Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, where she alluded to her husband finding one daughter easier to raise than the other.
Michelle and her guests were discussing the dynamics between siblings and parents, when she shared an anecdote from when the power-couple were raising their then-teenage girls in the White House between 2009 and 2017.
She explained that her eldest daughter Malia, now 27, would try appease her father while her youngest Sasha, now 24, did not.
‘I’d say this to Barack when it comes to [our] oldest Malia, she is going to figure out who you are and what you like’ and discuss it,’ Michelle explained, admitting the perception was an ‘unusual’ trait in a teenager.
‘When Malia was a teenager, it wasn’t that she was going out any less or doing anything differently,’ she continued,'[but] she would tell me “I’m going out this weekend, but I’m going to go in and give dad like 15 minutes.”‘
‘She’d go into the treaty room and go, “tell me about Syria?”‘ Michelle recounted.
Michelle and Barack Obama pictured with daughters Sasha (in white) and Malia (in black and white patterned dress) while living in the White House in 2009
‘Then she’d be like “ok, we’ll I’m gone.”‘
‘Barack would come out of the treaty room going, “I just had an amazing conversation with Malia,”‘ and I’m like “ok,”‘ she said dryly.
Meanwhile, she said her youngest Sasha was ‘like a cat’ and wasn’t so much a people pleaser, which Barack struggled with.
‘She’s like, “don’t touch me, don’t pet me, I’m not pleasing you, you come to me,”‘ the former FLOTUS explained.
‘Barack’s like, well, “she’s difficult,” and I was like “no, the first one was a pleaser, right?”
She added that her daughters still have the same ‘temperament.’ Both have kept an extremely low profile since leaving the White House and have not commented on their mother sharing family secrets.
It’s not the first time Michelle has discussed the differences between the couple’s parenting techniques, often opening up on her podcast about their struggles.
In July, she told guests Julia Louis-Dreyfus she had a stern conversation about what kind of father he was going to be immediately after he was elected President of the United States in 2009.
Michelle was quick to take a dig at her husband, the former President of the United States, as rumors continue to swirl over the state of their marriage
Michelle, pictured with Barack and her children on the Iowa campaign trail in 2008, says Barack found youngest daughter Sasha more difficult to parent than the couple’s older child Malia
The Obama family are pictured in 2013. Michelle has continued to spill family secrets amid rumors her marriage to Barack is on the rocks
Michelle and her guests were discussing the dynamics between siblings and parents, when she shared an anecdote from when they were raising their then-teenage girls in the White House
In June, the devoted mom took another jibe at her husband of 33 years, confessing that she was glad the pair never had a son because he would have been just like her husband
Michelle explained her youngest daughter Sasha was ‘like a cat’ and wasn’t so much a people pleaser – which Barack struggled with
Michelle and Barack Obama are pictured together on their wedding day in October 1992
She explained that she told her husband he had to get their daughters’ school used to the President of the United States being at events – and that she wanted him to still be as engaged with this daughters’ lives as he was before he took office.
‘It was like, “no, you got to go to parent-teacher conference” – and he wanted to go,’ Michelle told Julia and Craig.
She stated that even if he was not necessarily required to go, she still expected him there.
‘You have to get the school normalized to you being the type of engaged parent that you were before election night,’ she recalled telling Barack. ‘And you were the father that went to parent teacher conference, you were the father that would coach your girls’ basketball game league,’ she recounted.
In June, the devoted mom took another jibe at her husband of 33 years, confessing that she was glad the pair never had a son because he would have been just like her husband.
‘I’m so glad I didn’t have a boy… he would’ve been a Barack Obama,’ she joked to her brother, Craig Robinson and radio host Angie Martinez.
Michelle previously opened up about her relationship with her two daughters admitting they started ‘pushing away’ from her and her husband when they were teenagers.
The mother-of-two explained that she believes her daughters distanced themselves because they wanted to ‘distinguish themselves’ from their famous parents as they became adults
The remarks comes amid swirling rumors about the state of the power couple’s marriage.
In July, the pair – how have been married since 1992, finally addressed the state of their marriage – after months of speculation that the couple’s relationship is on the rocks.
The Obama’s wasted no time in addressing the rumors of their separation when he appeared on IMO.
‘What, you guys like each other?’ Robinson joked, before Michelle replied: ‘Oh yeah, the rumor mill.’
‘She took me back!’ Obama light-heartedly chimed in, adding: ‘It was touch and go for awhile.’
But Michelle’s continued outpourings about her husband and children have done little to quell the rumors.
