Shortly after President Obama was elected to the White House in 2008, first lady Michelle Obama divulged some sensitive, personal details: The Obama children, Malia and Sasha, were gaining weight.
In interviews and speeches, she described her worry about her family's health and a pediatrician's warning that her daughters' body mass index (BMI) was creeping up.
"Even though I wasn't exactly sure at that time what I was supposed to do with this information about my children's BMI," the first lady said in 2010, "I knew that I had to do something. I had to lead our family to a different way."
