Michelle Obama revealed on an upcoming Netflix documentary series called ‘Becoming’ that she had changed the dress code for the White House butlers for a reason.
The former first lady said she made this decision because she didn’t want to send a wrong message to her daughters.
Malia and Sasha were ten and seven years old respectively when the family moved to White house. The 56-year-old mother also said that she advised maids to let the girls clean their rooms on their own because they will not stay in the White House permanently.
She told the housekeepers: “I’m not raising a girl who doesn’t know how to make their own bed!” Mrs. Obama said she noticed butlers fully dressed in tuxedos, who were mostly African American or Latino men when she visited Laura Bush for the handover of the presidency.
She said that she took “a lot of time” to figure out “how do I make this mansion with butlers and staff a home for two little girls?”
Mrs. Obama said: “I didn’t want them thinking that grown African American men serve them in tuxedos. The truth was that some of those men were uncles, they were the Pullman porters.’’
“We had to change the dress code, you can’t walk around every day in a full tuxedo. Girls would have pool parties and playdates and little kids over and that just doesn’t even look right to me.”
The former first lady’s documentary will focus on her post-White House life and work. Becoming a documentary is directed by Nadia Hallgrenwill and will be released on May 6.
Mrs. Obama revealed in the documentary she moved to tears when she and her husband Barack Obama left the White House for the last time. She said it was “just the release of eight years of trying to do everything perfectly”.
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