Michelle Obama has said her daughters are trying to “push away” from her and her husband to forge their own paths separate from their famous parents.

The former first lady said that her daughters Malia and Sasha tried to distance themselves from her and her husband, the former US president Barack Obama, particularly during their teenage years.

“Our daughters are 26 and 23, they are young adult women. But they definitely went through a period in their teen years… it was the ‘push away,’” Mrs Obama said during an episode of Kate Hudson’s Sibling Revelry podcast.

Mrs Obama said her two children are continuing to attempt to chart their own course in order to differentiate themselves from their parents.

“They’re still doing that, and you guys know this of children with parents who are know

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