Michelle Obama surprises unsuspecting teenage girls on 'Becoming' book tour: Watch!
Surprise: It's Michelle Obama!
The former first lady surprised an unsuspecting group of teenage girls at the Lower Eastside Girls Club on Saturday morning, when she showed up for a roundtable over a healthy lunch alongside former Executive Director of her Let's Move! Campaign, Sam Kass.
The group of 30 young women between 13 and 18 thought it was only Kass who would be there, to treat them to a healthy meal and talk with them about nutrition, urban farming and more. In the midst of asking him questions, though, Obama appeared behind him, much to the delight of the group.
Watch Michelle Obama's surprise below:
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After surprising the young women, who all received a copy of her new memoir, "Becoming," Obama helped prepare and serve kale salads before sitting down for a roundtable lunch, where and she Kass fielded questions from the group.
"If I could choose how to spend every second of my day, it would be doing stuff like this," she told the young women during a chat that focused on healthy eating, but touched on other topics, like why she doesn't want to be president.
"I don't want to be president!" she said to a room full of laughter. "There are many ways to have impact. [...] My passion has never been politics. I just happened to marry someone whose passion was politics."
Obama's surprise appearance came ahead of the latest stop on her "Becoming" book tour at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where she will sit down with Elizabeth Alexander. The teens from the Lower Eastside Girls Club will attend the event, which will donate 10 percent of tickets to community groups around New York City.
Her visit to the Lower Eastside Girls Club was one of a handful of so-called "community events" that the former first lady has held before the stops of her tour, which are all centered around young people. Previous stops have included a roundtable with high school seniors in Chicago, visiting the African American Museum with beGirl World in Washington and a "Black Girls Rock" roundtable in Boston, among others.
