It’s a ladies’ night fit for a former First Lady. Shortly after Mother’s Day, Malia Obama, 27, and Sasha Obama, 24, brought their mom Michelle Obama to Funke Restaurant for a rare outing in Los Angeles on May 11.
The crew kept the vibes casual, with Michelle sporting distressed jeans, a sage green trucker jacket and olive green suede top-handle bag. Meanwhile, Malia donned a knee-length floral dress with black boots and Sasha opted for a denim-on-denim ensemble.
Although the mother and daughters shared a sweet dinner together, Michelle has been open about navigating the “empty nester” life with husband and former president Barack Obama recently.
Now that both Malia and Sasha have graduated college-from Harvard University in 2021 and University of Southern California in 2023, respectively-Michelle said that she and Barack were navigating a “new phase” of life.
“My husband did the hardest job,” she said on her podcast IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson March 11. “He reached the top of the thing you could do. Now he’s got work to do, individual work, to figure out, ‘Where am I gonna be? What do I wanna say? Who do I want to be?’ I’m doing the same thing.”
She continued, “We’re back to just me and him. It takes time, is all I’m saying. All of these new stages take time for adjustment.”
And while she still frets over her children, she is grateful that they share a place in Los Angeles. When Malia and Sasha informed her that they wanted to move in together a few years ago, Michelle could hardly contain her excitement.
“So I just said, ‘Okay, well that’s interesting that you guys are going to try living together. We’ll see how it goes,'” she told People in November 2022. “But yeah, it feels good to know that the two girls you raised find solace at a kitchen table with one another. It’s like the one thing you want for them.