Mrs. Obama: Super Bowl food
indulgence OK, Facebook
still off-limits (video)
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama concedes that the White House Super Bowl menu of bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings didn't exactly fit with her campaign to get Americans to eat healthy and combat obesity. But the first lady says it's all about balance.
She said in an NBC "Today" show interview Wednesday that "if you have a day like Super Bowl Sunday, the next day, go back to balance" with vegetables and other healthy eating. She says she tells her children, "you can have birthday cake and everything else, have your vegetables and get your exercise."
It's important, Mrs. Obama said, for families not to think they can never indulge. "Life is about good food, at least in America," she says.
The First Lady also opened up about her daughters Facebook habits and the need for her husband to cover his graying hair.
Daughters Sasha, 9, and Malia, 12, have certain restrictions that other children don't have because of Secret Service security issues. But she also said that she's "not a big fan of young kids having Facebook."
Even if the girls weren't living in the White House, Mrs. Obama says Facebook is "not something they need." Maybe when they get older, she added.
Mrs. Obama says the president doesn't use hair coloring, and that "it's too late" to do anything about the touches of gray in his hair.
The first lady blamed "lighting" for the differences between two photographs taken of President Barack Obama one day last month. His hair looks darker in one photo than the other.
Mrs. Obama told NBC's "Today" show Wednesday that her husband "is pretty gray" and might have started dyeing his hair 10 years ago" if he had known he would become president.
She also said Obama "cares very little about his appearance." She said wishes the president would try "a different color suit," and she and her daughters "cheer when he puts on a bright-colored shirt."
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