The Seven Avatars That Shaped Michelle Obama's Image

By Staff

Monday, May 4, 2009, 13:45

It seems Michelle Obama is having an every woman image in the first 100 days at the White House. She's there as a strong, sensitive, confident and intelligent woman who aptly suits the seat of a first lady. In the first 100 days of Obama era there are seven incidents that had shaped Michelle Obama's image.

On the Inauguration day, the Obama girls were well behaved. They were together as a family but never showed any over excitement at the new power. Michelle Obama showed up the image as a family woman, to whom you can run across in a grocery shop.

When the toy makers, who made the Beanie Babies, started to make dolls of Sasha and Malia, Michelle Obama's office came in strong opposition to this. The opposition showed Michelle Obama's desire to remain as a normal person rather than a celebrity

Michelle Obama always gave importance to holding state dinners or speaking to groups. That is how people connect, through a shared experience.

Michelle Obama's sense of dressing came into notice and that spoke of a woman whose style ran from suburban-mom-friendly Gap to trendy designers and everything in between. Mandi Norwood is also planning a new book "Michelle Style: Celebrating the First Lady of Fashion" about Michelle Obama's fashion sense.

After an early foray into campaign-style stumping, Michelle Obama's decided to take a back seat in politics.

The First Lady made good her promise and visited Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where she read to kids, hung out with soldiers over lunch, and met privately with families. She even promised to hang a picture of a soldier departing for war in her East Wing office - a way to show that she and her husband cared about the soldiers he was sending to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The next item on her agenda was having a garden at the White House, which Michelle insists kids will have a role in, and she even said that the garden must not be some weed-filled patch, unfit for viewing by visitors.

Her European trip was very well noticed, especially when the First Lady visited the Queen for tea and ended up giving her an affectionate pat on the back.

Though public display of affection was not allowed, Buckingham Palace said the interaction was mutual, and not a breach of protocol.

And on a visit to a girls' school, Michelle made quite an impression with the younger ladies, and they with her.