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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Brittany Miller

Michelle Obama says keeping daughters’ teenage smoking and drinking out of tabloids was a ‘nightmare’

Michelle Obama has spoken about what it was like to keep her two daughters out of the news as they were entering their teenage years.

On Tuesday, the former First Lady appeared on SiriusXM’s Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, where she discussed the “nightmare” that came from trying to keep the teenaged antics of daughters Malia Obama, 26, and Sasha Obama, 23, out of the public eye. Malia and Sasha were 10 and 7, respectively, when their father won the presidency in 2008. But when he won a second term, they had to live most of their teen years in front of the whole world.

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