15个你不知道的关于米歇尔.奥巴马的秘密 奥巴马, 米歇尔, 秘密

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1. As a child, she loved girlie stuff like her Easy Bake Oven and Barbie (she had the car and the house, too).

2. When it comes to television, she's a fan of Sex in the City, The Sopranos and HGTV.

3. Her favorite author: Toni Morrison

4. Her father, Fraser Robinson, a former boxer, suffered from multiple sclerosis from age 30. He was a Democratic precinct captain and worked at the city water filtration plant in Chicago. Although he met and liked Barack, he died in 1991, a year before the Obamas were married.

5. As a kid, she alternated days doing dish-washing duty with her big brother, Craig. It was also her job to clean the bathroom every Saturday.

6. She skipped second grade.

7. She attended Whitney Young, Chicago's first magnet high school, where she was student council treasurer, a member of the National Honor Society and a four-year honor roll student.

8. She's a 1985 cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she shared a room with three other women and had to walk down three flights of stairs to get to the bathroom.

9. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988 and was hired by the blue chip law firm Sidley & Austin in Chicago, where she specialized in marketing and intellectual property law. She was picked to be the adviser to a summer associate, Barack Obama.

10. She doesn't wearpantyhose because they always rip; she says it's difficult to find ones that fit her 5-foot-11 frame.

11.The Rev. Jesse Jackson's daughter, Santita, sang at her wedding. They're childhood friends.

12. As a newlywed, she gave up corporate law and took a huge pay cut to open the Chicago office of Public Allies, part of former President Clinton's AmeriCorps, which helped young people to enter public service work.

13. She sits on six boards, including the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, which her daughters, Sasha and Malia, attend.

14. In a job interview with University of Chicago Hospitals, she brought along baby daughter Sasha (now 7) because she couldn't find a baby sitter. She got the job.

15. She likes predawn workouts and held outdoor jump-rope clinics at her house for her daughter's ballet class.


1. 小时候，她就喜欢简易烤炉、芭比（以及芭比的车和小房子）之类小女孩的玩具。

2. 说到电视，她可是《欲望都市》、黑道家族以及“居家频道”的粉丝。

3. 她最喜欢的作家是托妮•莫里森。

4. 她的父亲弗里泽•罗宾逊以前是拳击手，30岁以后就一直深受多处硬化症的折磨。他曾是民主党选区区长，在芝加哥市水过滤厂工作。他见过巴拉克，而且很喜欢他，可惜他在1991年就去世了，一年后奥巴马才和米歇尔结婚。

5. 小时候，她与哥哥克雷格轮流洗碗。每周六她还要清扫卫生间。

6. 她是从一年级直接跳到三年级的。

7. 她曾就读于芝加哥第一所精英高中——惠特尼杨高中。她当时是学生会的会计、国家荣誉协会成员，而且连续四年都是三好学生。

8. 她是1985年普林斯顿大学的优秀毕业生。那时候，她和另外三个女人同居一室，去洗手间还得下三层楼梯。

9. 1988年，她从哈佛大学法学院毕业，之后就职于芝加哥最好的盛德律师事务所，专攻市场法和知识产权法。她曾经被选为暑期咨询助理巴拉克•奥巴马的指导老师。

10. 她从来不穿连裤袜，因为那种裤袜很容易被刮破；她说要找到一双适合她5.11英尺身材的连裤袜实在太难了。

11. 杰西•杰克逊牧师（译者注：美国黑人民权领袖）的女儿桑蒂塔在她的婚礼上献歌。她们是童年时代的朋友。

12. 结婚不久，她放下之前从事的公司法业务，转而开办了收入大不如前的芝加哥公众联盟办公室，这个办公室是美国义工团的一部分。前总统克林顿发起组建了该团体以帮助年轻人投身公众服务工作。

13. 她是六个董事会的董事，其中包括她的两个女儿萨莎和马莉娅就读的芝加哥附属实验学校。

14. 她曾因为找不到保姆而带着年幼的女儿萨莎（现在7岁）去芝加哥大学医院参加面试。后来她得到了那份工作。

15. 她喜欢晨练。为了让女儿上好芭蕾课，她还特意在家办了个户外跳绳保健中心。