Oprah asks Michelle Obama if she plans to run for office — see the first lady’s answer

During a sit-down with Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey asked the outgoing first lady if she plans to run for office, and Obama made her answer very clear.

When Winfrey pressed her on whether or not she would seek any political office, Obama offered a very clear and concise, "No."

"I don’t make stuff up," Obama said. "I’m not coy. ... I’m pretty direct. If I were interested in it, I’d say it."

And when Winfrey pressed the first lady on it, Obama explained why it's not in the cards for her:

People don’t really understand how hard this is, and it’s not something you cavalierly just sort of ask a family to do again. Let me just tell America: This is hard. It’s a hard job. I said it on the campaign trail. It requires a lot of sacrifice. It is a weighty thing. And it’s not something you look to one family to take on at that level for that long of a period of time.

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Sixteen years. I wouldn’t do that to my kids. Because what people don’t understand is that you run, their lives stop — at any age. The next family that comes in here, every person in that family, every child, every grandchild, their lives will be turned upside down in a way that no American really understands.

And it's not for us to complain about it, so you don't hear complaints, but it is a truth, an actuality, that there is a weight to it.

As for Melania Trump, President-elect Donald Trump's wife, Obama told Winfrey she has offered an open-door policy to the incoming first lady.

"My offer to Melania was, you really don’t know what you don’t know until you’re here, so the door is open," Obama said, noting that former first lady Laura Bush has been very helpful to her during her eight years in the White House.

Obama said she hopes to play the same helpful role as the Trumps prepare to assume the mantle in January.

"We will do whatever they need to help them succeed," Obama said. "I told Melania, 'When you get to a place where you can digest all this,' ... because, you know, you don’t have questions the day after the election; it’s just sort of like, you’re looking around the house, and it’s like, ‘Well, what do you want to know?’ And it’s like, ‘I don’t know what I should know.’"

"And I knew that," she added. "So my door is open."