First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) Michelle Obama has been touring California promoting her health agenda, so when she was challenged to a push-up contest on a TV show, she quickly dropped to the floor to prove she practiced what she preached.
The challenge began on Wednesday when daytime TV host Ellen DeGeneres asked the First Lady on her show, “How many push-ups can you do? Because I like to do a push-up.”
“I don’t know. I can do some – can you? I know you’ve got these back issues,” Mrs. Obama teased.
To which Degeneres stood-up and took off her jacket, and a smiling Michelle Obama, who has completed push-ups with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, stood-up ready to take on the challenge.
Ellen and the First Lady started doing the push-ups on the studio floor with the audience counting along – Mrs. Obama completed an impressive 25.
“I thought it wouldn’t be good to show off the First Lady so I stopped,” joked DeGeneres after quitting. “I thought this looks bad that I’m going to beat her. I’m 54 and you’re 48.”
During the show, Michelle Obama also revealed some bedroom secrets regarding her husband, President Barack Obama.
“He doesn’t pick up his socks,” she said. “He thinks he’s neat, but he has people who help him. I’m like it’s not you that’s neat, it’s the people who pick up your socks. Those are the neat people,” she told DeGeneres.
She also joined Ellen in a dance for the benefit of the audience.
On Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama revealed that the President loves to serenade her by singing songs from Al Green, Marvin Gaye and other R&B greats.
“He does have a beautiful voice, and he sings to me all the time,” Mrs. Obama told Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.
The President gained attention in January for breaking out a bar of an Al Green song during a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater in New York City.
But he also sings Marvin Gaye and even ‘a little Stevie.’ That’s Stevie Wonder, for the uninitiated. “He likes the classics,” she explained.
Michelle Obama also convinced Jay Leno to nibble on apples, sweet potato fries and a pizza made with eggplant, green peppers and zucchini, breaking his long-held aversion for all-things-healthy in his diet.
Leno once told a magazine, he hadn’t eaten a vegetable since 1969, and he insisted he tasted his last apple in 1984. That didn’t dissuade the First Lady, who’s promoting her ‘Let’s Move!’ campaign to get kids excited about fitness and healthy eating habits.
She convinced Jay Leno to dip an apple in honey made from beehives in the White House garden.”It will help it go down easier,” she assured him.
“White House honey? That sounds bad,” Jay joked. “You know, with a different president that could mean a whole different thing, ‘a little White House honey.'”
