First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at the Newsweek obesity forum on Wednesday and the subject of soap operas came up when discussing changing lifestyles which contribute to childhood obesity.
MRS. OBAMA: I don't think there's any one path to how we got there. I know I have my theories. I think lifestyles have changed significantly. I reminisce with people about what it was like for me growing up on the South Side of Chicago in a simple working-class community. You went to the school around the corner from your house because all the schools were solid enough that you just went to the school in your neighborhood. So you walked to school, number one.
And there was recess and gym. I was talking to one of my staff members just about how lunchtime, it was an hour. And my mother was one of the mothers that didn't work, so me and all my friends, we'd come back to our house, we'd watch soap operas, we'd eat lunch. (Laughter.) We'd complain about our teachers.
Q: Which ones?
MRS. OBAMA: ALL MY CHILDREN, I have to say. (Laughter.) That was a big one.
Q: We just made news, ma'am. (Laughter.)
MRS. OBAMA: But that was a lunchtime treat, and it was a way -- you know, I thought -- so we ate, we had time to eat our food, have a conversation with our parents, and then go back to school, catch that last minute of play. So it was a lot of activity.
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