Michelle Obama & Her Mom to Cover Essence Magazine's May Mother's Day Issue..

via Politico
Add another to Michelle Obama’s growing stack of magazine spreads. In the May issue of Essence, first grandmother Marian Robinson gets into the act, too, joining her daughter for a joint interview and cover shoot for the mother’s day issue.

Interviewed in the Frst Lady’s East Wing Office at about a month after the inauguration, the mother-daughter team discuss family, life in the White House and the importance of good role models. Robinson, 71, says her role model is her daughter:

“Michelle has always been Michelle. And she has always accomplished whatever it was she set out to accomplish,” Robinson says in the interview, which is not yet posted online. I have always looked up to Michelle because she has been able to do things that I couldn’t do emotionally, psychologically or physically. I think she is amazing.”

Obama said of her mother that “she made me who I am.”

In the interview, Obama also discusses her growing platform, giving it a global spin.

“We have to talk about flex hours and exercise and nutrition and health and what that means. And we have to talk about values, and our relationship with men,” she says. “All of those are part of the conversation that I think we need to have, not just in this country, but around the world.”

Obama and Robinson also discuss parenting and whether Robinson might follow the path of her son, Craig, and also become an author. When Robinson was asked if she thought of writing a parenting book, her daughter jumped in with a laugh.

“We are working on it,” she said.