Michelle Obama has revealed she’s had the COVID-19 vaccine and is thinking about retiring from public life.
The former First Lady, in a wide-ranging interview with PEOPLE on Wednesday, also opened up on her pandemic year, saying George Floyd’s death was a lot to take on during quarantine and that Donald Trump’s defeat means ‘we can breathe for a moment’.
The 57-year-old insisted that Americans should take the COVID-19 vaccine when they were able to and said there was ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ amid the pandemic.
‘I encourage everyone to get a vaccine as soon as they have an opportunity,’ she said.
It is not clear when Mrs Obama received the COVID-19 vaccine, or if Barack has also received the shot.
Michelle Obama revealed in a wide-ranging interview with PEOPLE on Wednesday that she’s had the COVID-19 vaccine and is thinking about retiring from public life
Speaking about the past year, Obama said: ‘These have been challenging times. Many people have struggled: jobs lost, people going hungry. We’ve learned to count our blessings, the importance of health and family.’
Obama said she and husband Barack have spent much of the year isolating with their daughters Malia, 22, and Sasha, 19, after their Harvard and University of Michigan college campuses were shut down early on in the pandemic.
She said family the time between their homes in Washington, D.C. and Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
‘This time has allowed us to get some stolen moments back with our girls,’ she said. ‘There’s something about witnessing your children become adults and developing a different relationship with them.
‘They didn’t come back into the house into the same set of rules, because I didn’t want them to miss out on independence. They came back as young women and our conversations are more peer-oriented than they are mother-to-daughter.’
Obama said she would often listen at the door while her daughters were streaming their classes online.
‘With everybody…
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