For Michelle, she didn’t want her girls to grow up around that.

“How do I make this mansion with butlers and staff feel like a home for two little girls?

I didn’t want them to grow up thinking that grown African-American men serve them in tuxedos.”

Michelle Obama smiling at a podium

“I had to beg the housekeepers,” Michelle said in “Becoming.”

Family portrait of the Obama family at the White House

Barack Obama waving as he walks with his family at the White House