Empowering Women - Michelle Obama

Every month I am highlighting an empowering woman. This month it is:

Michelle Obama

NOTE: If you don’t like the Obamas then please skip this post. This is supposed to be a positive post, so I won’t allow negative comments.

Now I can’t talk about empowering women without highlighting our first African American First Lady. Before being First Lady, she was a lawyer, mother, and wife. She actually mentored President Barrack Obama while he was a summer associate at the firm where she worked.

I’ve adored Michelle Obama since her First Lady portrait came out and she was wearing a modern and sophisticated sleeveless dress. She received criticism for that, but if a powerful woman can’t show her strong arms in this day and age then no one should. *wink* Michelle brought new life into the White House.

One of her missions as First Lady was to get children and families active and eating healthy. In 2012, she launched Let’s Move! to address childhood obesity. She welcomed students to the White House Garden to teach them about gardening and the importance of eating healthy. Those students were able to return to see the fruits and vegetables that they planted. They also got to help cook a meal with their crops.

Michelle is a fit woman, too. I remember reading once that she would wake up at 5:00 AM to get a work out in. She’s participated publicly in National Dancing Day and even danced on stage with So You Think You Can Dance All-Stars. She’s not afraid to bust a move.

She also launched the Reach Higher Initiative to inspire young people to “take charge of their fitness.” She’s also behind Let Girls Learn with the goal of helping girls around the world “go to school and stay in school,” which is a problem when boys are more valued and families can’t afford to pay for a girl’s education, or they chose not to. Joining Forces is another initiative she’s aided in launching, which supports service members, veterans, and their families through wellness, education, and employment opportunities.

In 2016, she participated in the Democratic National Convention and everyone raved about her speech.

“This is the story of this country, the story that had brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.”

Michelle Obama is an empowering and inspiring woman.

QUESTIONS: Have you ever watched So You Think You Can Dance? If you're a woman, would you show off your amazing arms in an official portrait? If I had them, I would! ;)

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