Marian Shields Robinson, Michelle Obama’s mother, has died. She was 86 years old. The news was announced by the former first lady and other family members in a statement. «There has been and will be only one Marian Robinson. In our sadness, we are lifted by her extraordinary gift of her life,” she reads.
The woman, a widow, had been a lifelong resident of Chicago. She moved to the White House in 2009, when Barack Obama became president, to help care for her nieces Malia and Sasha. In her seventies, Mrs. Robinson initially resisted the idea of moving to Washington, and Michelle Obama had to enlist her brother, Craig, to convince her mother.
“I would not be who I am today without the steady hand and unconditional love of my mother, Marian Shields Robinson,” Michelle Obamaha wrote in her 2018 memoir, “Becoming.” “She has always been my rock, allowing me the freedom to be who I am, without ever allowing my feet to get too high off the ground.”
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