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Burger, Fries & Shake! Michelle Obama Orders 1,700-Calorie ‘Shake Shack’ Lunch

Burger, Fries & Shake! Michelle Obama Orders 1,700 Calorie Shake Shack Lunch

Shake Shack burger

This is rich. And high in saturated fats.

Michelle Obama was spotted at the burger joint Shake Shack in Washington, DC, Monday afternoon. She ordered a burger, French fries, a chocolate milkshake and a Diet Coke (she’s watching her figure), according to the Washington Post.

Obama recently admitted French fries are a bit of an addiction for her, but her engorged appetite at Shake Shack still might come as a bit of shock given her primary concern since joining her husband in the White House has been battling child obesity.

And it was only last month she helped replace the iconic Food Pyramid with the new “Choose My Plate” graphic (which, unlike the Food Pyramid, has no place at all for “fats, oils and sweets”).

Burger, Fries & Shake! Michelle Obama Orders 1,700 Calorie Shake Shack Lunch

Shake Shack milkshake

Based on the nutritional guide on Shake Shack’s website, that one meal amounted to 1,700 calories. That’s 85% of the standard 2,000-calories-per-day diet.

This is also Obama’s second public helping of fries within the last month. Yum!

Watch Michelle Obama promote her “Let’s Move” campaign, which targets ending child obesity:

And the timing may not be so good — check out the cover of next month’s Better Homes & Garden:

Burger, Fries & Shake! Michelle Obama Orders 1,700 Calorie Shake Shack Lunch

Comments (284)

  • Ron_WA
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:11am

    As long as her response to inquiries is something to the effect that it’s okay to splurge now & then especially if you are very active or exercise regularly then I’m okay w/ her & don’t feel it’s hypocritical (though I don’t like anyone telling me how & what to eat).

    Besides, assuming she ate every bite/drop of the 1556 calorie meal, it is still under the 2000 calorie recommended diet w/ room for a healthy breakfast & light salad for dinner.

    Now if her message is do as I say not as I do or oops then I have an issue & would be all over this…

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:37am

      HYPOCRISY BELONGS IN THIS ARTICLE… NOT JUST FOR HER BURGER BUT WHAT SHE IS PUSHING…
      1) Hypocrisy about the meal that she just ate. Wasn’t she the one that asked to redesign the food pyramid, wasn’t she the one that said to eat healthier, wasn‘t the democrats that made school not offer the ’bad’ food. Then her and her husband have to eat it when ever they are out. Remember Africa and the fat cakes: http://tiny.cc/ar1rd

      2) In her defense she is also teaching that we have to ‘get moving.’ Not just eat well. Then why are the democrats asking to take away elementary school recesses?

      3) She is talking to kids, she should be a role model, yet she had Beyonce make a video where she is not properly dressed or making the ‘movements’ that are appropriate to young kids: http://tiny.cc/w49yu

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:56am

      The real hypocrisy is that a story on Paul Ryan buying 2 $350 bottles of wine (which I have no problem with BTW) while telling America to cut its spending, is greeted with post after post defending his actions as free choice. Unfortunately, I don’t think Blazers are using the same standards with this story and have inadvertently proved their unashamed bias to all things wingnut.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:28am

      survivorseed
      The real hypocrisy is that a story on Paul Ryan buying 2 $350 bottles of wine (which I have no problem with BTW) while telling America to cut its spending, is greeted with post after post defending his actions as free choice.
      ——————-
      Paul Ryan spent his money, HIS MONEY , which he earns by doing a job.
      Obama wants to spend trillions of dollars which
      A. If taxpayer dollars, do not belong to him
      B. If borrowed, come from foreign countries
      Ryan has a right to splurge on himself once in a while with HIS OWN money.
      Obama has no right to splurge on the marxists with OUR money

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    • lobster
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 2:22am

      Boy Howdy….. The good ol’ “Don’t do as I do, do as I say.” But then liberals are always hypocrits.

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    • Dale
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 2:31am

      Well Ron, please explain how you can have a sensible breakfast and dinner consisting of 140 calories (not each – together) 2,000 calories is for a man – 1,700 for a woman. Oh, and by the way did she wash that diet busting burger down with a milk shake? One more question for ya: what is the difference between Moochell Odumbo, Shelia Jackson Lee, and Cynthia McKinney? I can’t think of any; so have at it!

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 2:33am

      I’m sure she shared with 10 of her friends.

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 4:15am

      Barack and Michelle need to appear on a popular magazine cover as the two biggest liars and hypocrites in the USA. Both go by the solgan, ” Do as I say, not as I do “. Frankly at the age of 72 I don’t fel I need a “mother” to tell me what I should or shouldn’t eat. My wife does a pretty good job in that sector. I certainly don’t need a “father figure” like Barack who hasn’t ever worked a full day at hard labor in his life, and never will. What does he know about America ? From early childhood he has lived in La-La Land with communist benefactors and tutors and has been completely isolated from the real world of hard knocks.

      Barack Obama, as the POTUS is Commander in Chief of all US Military Forces, but he has NEVER served a day in any of them. What a joke and ridiculous President this guy has proven himself to be by his socialistic programs, broken promisses and endless lies. But, his “charisma” still is atractive to some die hard followers that are patiently waiting for the Obama “miracle” to fundamentally transform
      America into a Shangra-La or Utopian Paradise where the “wealth is spread around” to those like him that live off the hard work of others. No, I don’t need to be taught by those who have never made an effort to succeed with their own lives without the help of others to smoothly pave the way for them.

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    • Steve
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 5:11am

      survivorseed

      Well I kinda respectfully disagree with ya here.

      Obama is pushing a healthy diet, free of all the nastiness that makes ya fat. Money on this program is being spent. Time and resources are being used. Our time, Our resources our money.

      Ryan is telling Government to cut spending and release the holds on free trade. (trying to simplify this) Then he goes out and buys two expensive bottles of liquor with his own money or who ever bought it. On his own time utilizing his own resources spending his own money?

      Hey thats just how I see it I could be wrong.

      I mean we could look down on any politician who’s wearing a $400+ dollar suit and say….Hey! get thee into Sears and set the example. Get thee a Sears Sucker Suit for $99.99. I mean where do we draw the line?.(Well I’m sure the line was drawn by Pelosi but hey thats a progressive politician and as we all know we cant go there. )

      I just don’t get the comparison between government resourced bureaucratic advertising utilizing tax monies to someone spending their own money?

      Or am I wrong?

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 5:52am

      I would be supportive of her making her own choices, freedom of expression, or whatever you want to call it, if she weren’t so adament about US cutting back on our calories and trying to take french fries off the menues of fast food restuarants (so that you have to ask for them). Ryan (with his $350 bottle of wine) is different. The woman complaining was at the same upscale restuarant that the minimum wage couple couldn’t afford to walk through the doors of. If Ryan’s meal was close to $400 (don’t remember the figure) with the bottle, then her meal had to be close to $100. I can’t afford a $100 meal just for myself. And Ryan isn’t asking individual Americans to cut back. He’s asking the GOVERNMENT to cut back.

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    • Ron_WA
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 6:00am

      Dale: agreed the recommended 2000 calorie daily intake is for an average man but given her size which is taller & larger than the average man I think 2000 cal is about right for her. According to the original source story published by the NewsCore/AP at 16:01, Monday 11 July 2011 versus the Blaze story of 23:33 the 1556 clories she ordered were the combined total of the cheese-burger, fries, diet coke & chocolate milkshake.

      As a diabetic, for breakfast I have a yogurt & a banana each day (185 calories) so I consider that reasonable; for dinner a med tossed vegetable salad w/ oil & vinegar is 125 calories – w/out dressing but w/ shrimp is 106 – pretty low cal & not very filling but after a big fulfilling lunch still doable.

      Again, assuming one eats every bit, drop & licks the plate, bowl, cups that should get you a calorie count of 1776 – (+/- likely error of 200 calories) … of course, while I that the govt. for their concern, I don’t subscribe to govt. telling me or my family what to eat) …

      As far as linking or de-linking M.O. to those other women of color, I seriously doubt I can other than I’m also not a fan of Cynthia McKiney or Shelia Jackson Lee but I’m not sure that links them …

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 6:01am

      @Ron_WA…Ya, as long as that was all she ate ALL DAY LONG, and I‘m guessing it wasn’t…..

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 6:05am

      If she wants 1700 calories for lunch, she should go for it but she better not try to tell everyone else what to eat or how much to eat. As for me, I eat 1200 calories a day but I really don’t care how much everyone else wants to eat. I would eat more for sure, if it was right for me. Everybody is different and that is what makes this a great country. If you ever really looked at trees you would find that there are tall ones, short one, fat ones, and every other variety. Same with people and the libs just can’t figure this out.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 6:55am

      I don’t care what the H she eats as long as she keeps her fat arse out of my business. This Marxist Gov. has got to go now. If Americans are so dumb that they cannot see whats happening to their freedom they deserve to lose it.
      And to Ryan’s wine….He can buy whatever he wants with his money. Cheezwhiz is absolutely on with his comment.

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 7:12am

      She should have her title changed. Try the First Hypocrite.

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    • GRAMPA-D-NH
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 7:52am

      I don’t care what she or anyone else decides to put in their pie hole. Individual choices, individual consequences. If someone wishes to influence others for good, fine, then be a good example. Don’t preach, persuade, push, or prevent especially when your appearance and habits constantly ruin your “witness”. Moochele is a classic liberal, “do as I say and I’ll use power to restrict choice. I can indulge my personal choices and be a terrible example because I’m part of the special, enlightened elite.” This regime has got to go in 2012.

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 7:54am

      Mrs. Obama….I think it’s time for a french fry intervention….look at your calves girl…

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 8:07am

      Bet she’s like all the other dumb chocolates ..Insists on HOT fries or they wont take them, they actually think that because they are “hot” that they somehow are fresher.. All of them are like this..

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 8:11am

      @surviorseed.. Yeah ? well paul ryan doesn‘t make it a point to write articles in certain mags and such that you shouldn’t be buying 350 dollar bottles of only I CAN… You don’t see that ? You must have liberal tendencies..

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    • ewestbrook
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 8:12am

      This isn’t just a splurge now and then. All you have to do is look at her to know that. If you’re going to go around telling people to eat healthy, you really should be pencil thin.

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    • obama-mecca-me-sick
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 8:28am

      She can eat whatever she wants and they will continue to photoshop her pictures to make her look thinner and healthy. Blackie O has a tendency to put on weight just like most women. It’s the old -do as I say , not as I do , routine. Hey Moochelle- mind your own business and leave the rest of us alone you BIG hypocrit!

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    • mils
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 8:50am

      I do no like Michelle or Obama…
      That being said…I see nothing wrong with her burger order.. She looks good , she exercises..etc.

      .If she were like, Shelia Jackson Lee or Miss Piggie er…I mean Whoopi, weeelll…I’d be screaming. HOWEVER, I think splurging every now and again is good.

      So, she gets a pass on this one thing from me. I still don’t like her, her condensending ways .
      To those of you that call Michelle fat…WRONG!< she looks good. She needs a new person to help her dress. The clothes that she ususally wears are terrible and make her look frumpy….She's not a pretty woman…and that shouldn't matter..
      …Obama is just looking bad, period…

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    • obama-mecca-me-sick
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 9:04am

      @MLS
      They could make Miss Piggy and Whoppi look good with photoshop. Your image of Moochelle is smoke and mirrors. Say one thing -do the opposite is the doctrine of this administration and every progressive.

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    • rightwingheroes
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 9:26am

      Hypocrite? Who’d a thunk it! LoLz

      Laura Bush makes Moochelle look like Lady Gaga. Classless and Tasteless.

      First Lady‘s don’t Dougie. Get a clue.

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    • tasmanianwabbit
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 9:32am

      Me, I’d like to know where she got her degree in nutrition & health. Oh. Just whatever “feels” good”?

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    • BetsyRoss1513
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 10:29am

      @fastfacts – not the least of which a poor woman with 6 kids, living in Oak Park Michigan, is being cited and brought to trial for vegetable gardening on her front lawn, merely because there’s an ordinance (probably a million years old) saying she can’t, and ONE (old biddy) PERSON complained.

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    • Bill
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 10:30am

      I agree! If you burn it off, eat as many calories your body can handle.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 10:37am

      Once again the typical dictator mentality, do as i say not as i do. Keep out of my kitchen and away from my waistline.

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    • Cymry
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 10:50am

      Marie Antoinette: “Let them eat cake.”

      Michelle Obama: “Don’t let them eat cake.”

      …….the only difference I can see so far.

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    • imreddog
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:04pm

      That should add another 40 pounds to that elephant sized a$$.

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    • agameofthrones
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:45pm

      UPSETVET: Can I quote you? That was great. I would like to share your remarks with a liberal colleague.

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  • geonj
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:07am

    obama likes big butts, and he cannot lie.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:06am

    Pack on the pounds! BOOYA!

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    • Pokerjoe
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 11:32am

      KB. Your the best!!! Oh man I cant stop laughing. Ever in Tulsa look me up.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:05am

    .
    Be glad when we can send this toad back to the swamp. She need’s a weave, and a stylist that knows how to dress someone. The FLOTUS look‘s like she shop’s at Wal-Mart…

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    • PrfctlyFrank
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:31am

      @ZOMBIELOVES.. You could beat obama in the coming election.. Right now we’re deciding just how big the landslide will be ..

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    • Fastsam
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 4:49am

      Please don’t degrade the toads in the swamp that way

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 7:05am

      Zombie says……
      “You racist teabaggers. I hope you choke on Obama’s reelection.”

      So, you say anyone who disagrees with a Marxist/Racist (and remember, MO/BO went to J Wrights church, not us) who happens to be black is a racist. Interesting line of thinking, you idiot. I should kick your arse. The Marxists/Communists will discard you when they are done using your stupidity for their gain. Did I mention I think you are an idiot?

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 8:24am

      Zombie is going to choke on Obummer’s departure from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in January 2013.

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    • rixse
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 3:17pm

      Really… spankdamonkey all you want and swing from one tree to another eeeh eeeh oooh oooh… can do much beyond your screeching sorry ass. Get on a scale and check your own weight you sorry weasel.

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  • geonj
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:05am

    do as i say, not as i do. and don’t comment on my fat a$$

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:07am

      Exactly .. we serfs are not supposed to have anything deemed “unhealthy” by the ruling class. While they “dine” on anything they want.

      2012 LIBERTY!

      TEA!

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  • bulletsinthegun
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:04am

    glad i am not behinh this pig in the chow line, nothing left for the next in line, bet she has the mannars of a gost

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  • pudssweetie
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:03am

    Another great example Queen Moochele is setting for our kids. I am so tired of her telling us Parents what we can or cannot feed our kid‘s while she goes out and feeds her fat face of the very things she condemns Parent’s of feeding their kids. How many times now has she been caught eating food that she herself has said is bad for kid and causes obesity. Oh that’s right I forgot, when it comes to the Obama‘s it’s do as I say, not as I do.

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:03am

    Proudpatriot77: “She is truly the most horribly shaped First Lady I have ever seen “ clearly you are too young to remember Barbara Bush or several others to include Mrs. Lincoln … M. Obama is no beauty queen but not much worse than most of the others …

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    • smokie
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 4:27am

      I’ll have to be honest, I’ve never observed and compared the shapes of First Ladies.

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    • smalldog
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 10:19am

      I don’t think about their shapes. I do believe Mrs. Obama has a large bone structure and will always appear larger than most women in the US. Even if she had a lower than average BMI, she would look large.

      It would be interesting to know her wrist/glove size and the width of her shoulders. Those are two measurements that help identify bone/frame size and are important parts in fitting our clothing.

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  • fishstx777
    Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:01am

    I guess with 9.2 unemployment someone most of stole all the vegatables from the whitehouse garden.

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  • fishstx777
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:57pm

    Is that before or after she grabbed a few of her husbands cigarettes.obamas next election campaign song cheeseburger in paradise .

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  • frustratedwithgovt
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:57pm

    Do as I say and not as I do…. I don‘t care if she sometimes has a burger and fries when she’s on her time but out in public? You’re never gonna sell your message acting like that. No credibility, just like hubby….

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  • Glenn is my hero
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:55pm

    Maybe she does binge and purge? Nah. Butt is too fat for that!

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    • Ron_WA
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:09am

      She does have a big butt, but (pardon the pun) the rest of her is proportioned near avg. (except her Amazon height/size).

      Maybe she’s genetically pre-dispositioned to have a big butt like some women who are thin naturally have big hooters or some guys have big tools, or those w/ enormous noggins …

      If she were really serious about this she would talk in terms of Body Mass Index (BMI) [height to weight & body fat ratio] & start by releasing hers – then I’d know she was serious …

      [P.S. – I’m not a fan of M. O. I just don’t attack family members of politicians, especially if it’s about their looks, age, or disabilities, but when they use their position to further an agenda I’m less generous]

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:09am

      I don’t know with all the Ribs, fries, ice cream etc .. I would think she would weigh even more… I know I could NEVER eat what she does. But I don’t “purge”.

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:30am

      @RON

      I wouldn’t give a “darn” if she wasn’t telling everyone else how to live .. and heck she is telling the food producers (or trying to) also .. control freaks like her should set an example or (and my preference) shut the H UP!

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 10:10am

      She is just into the binge part! She doesn’t like to purge!

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  • moojuiceexpress
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:54pm

    The first pooch better watch out where he sits. doesn’t want to get flattened

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    • moojuiceexpress
      Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:55pm

      I was also wondering why they had to have all the chairs in the white house widened. Now I know

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:21pm

      They installed funhouse mirrors in the White House so Michelle looks fit and trim!

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:53pm

    At least the stylist made sure she was sitting down for the featured cover of Better Homes and Gardens – so that her BIG MOOSE hips could be minimized.

    When she and her kid made a big production – while on vacation – going for a swim, BOTH of them gave the appearance of HIPPOS – Mama and Baby Hippo – should not have been seen in PUBLIC.

    MOOCHelle’s “Nutrition Program” is just another means – devised to put $6 BILLION of US taxpayer money – into the coffers of the UNIONS.

    Her “healthy eating” program is “Nutrition” for the Union$.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:29am

      That cover pic is so totally airbrushed.
      Some other magazines have also done that to her before .

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  • Glenn is my hero
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:53pm

    Hypocrite! No wonder she has a fat butt.

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  • Sunnyr
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:52pm

    Sure glad I canceled Better Homes and Gardens a few months ago. UGH!

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:11am

      I hope they also sit on the shelves .. I certainly would NOT be buying one!

      TEA!

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  • the wireworker
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:50pm

    hippocrytimus!

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  • hauschild
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:50pm

    There’s gonna be a whole lotta Rosie soon.

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  • scjeff
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Michelle says “To heck with them, let me eat cake!”

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 12:19am

      This on the same day her husband said :
      “ Let them eat peas ”

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 1:13am

      LOL .. heard that Cheez …

      TEA!

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    • scjeff
      Posted on July 12, 2011 at 11:16am

      What he meant to say was “drink”.

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  • GODBLESSOURCOUNTRY
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:48pm

    Of course you never really expected this type of elite, nouveau riche, “I know what’s better for you than you do”, bleeding heart liberal to actually practice what she preaches?

    Are you serious?

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  • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:41pm

    J.H.C………..here we go again :-(

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:41pm

    We all know where all those calories go. Like the old slogan from “Happy Day’s, “Sit on it”

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  • Tigger House
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:40pm

    Do as I say & not as I do!

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  • fatalone
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:40pm

    Do as i say not as i do

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  • proudpatriot77
    Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:40pm

    Doesnt suprise me. Her backside isnt that enormous from eating salads. She is truly the most horribly shaped First Lady I have ever seen. She makes Hillary look hot.

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