Why Michelle Obama Is ‘So Glad’ She Didn’t Have a Son With Barack Obama

Former first lady Michelle Obama is content as a girl mom to her two daughters.

“I’m so glad I didn’t have a boy,” Michelle, 61, quipped on the Wednesday, June 18, episode of her and brother Craig Robinson’s “IMO” podcast. “He would have been a Barack Obama [the Third]. Oh, no. I would have felt for him.”

Robinson, 63, chimed in, joking that his sister would “just borrow [his] boys” whenever she needed a fix instead. (Michelle is an aunt to Robinson’s four children.)

Michelle and husband Barack, 63, welcomed daughters Malia and Sasha in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Seven years after Sasha was born, Barack was elected President of the United States after previously serving in the U.S. Senate. He served two consecutive terms before leaving the Oval Office in 2016.

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While Michelle was always happy with her two girls, Barack initially wanted another child.

“You’re doing it a fourth time. I just had to stop,” Michelle said on Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast in March, referring to the host’s pregnancy with baby Finn. “I was like, ‘I think I’ve been lucky with these two.’ Barack was like, ‘We should have a third,’ and I was like, ‘Dude.’”

She added, “I’m thinking, ‘We’re gonna get a crazy one.’ It’s just the role of the dice. So, I admire your courage.”

Kylie, 33, and husband Jason Kelce share daughters Wyatt, 5, Ellie, 4, Bennett, 2 and Finn, who arrived later in March. Speaking on her podcast, she bonded with Michelle about both being girl moms.

“What I told Barack [was that it’s] karma was like, ‘Dude, you need a bunch of women in your life to smack you around,” Michelle joked. “[Jason] and Barack need to talk.”

While Kylie and Jason’s girls are still young, Michelle and Barack’s have grown up and left the nest.

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“They’re living on their own, if you can believe that, going from these little girls that people saw on the stage at the first inauguration. They’re grown women in the world,” the former attorney said on Kylie’s podcast. “But a lot of our conversation now is like, ‘When do you feel like an adult? When does it happen?’ They think like, ‘Is there the magic switch that makes you say, yeah, I’m adulting?’ And I was like, ‘No.’”

Michelle’s marriage has recently been under a microscope after she decided not to attend Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration in January alongside her husband.

“My decision to skip the inauguration, you know, what people don’t realize, or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me, were met with such ridicule and criticism,” she said on her “IMO” podcast in April. “Like, people couldn’t believe that I was saying no for any other reason, that they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart, you know?”

She continued, “It’s like, while I’m here really trying to own my life and intentionally practice making the choice that was right for me. It took everything in my power [not to do] the thing that was perceived as right, but do the things that [were] right for me.”