Michelle Obama and her mother Marian Robinson at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 6, 2012. She married her husband, Fraser Robinson, in 1960, and the couple had two children, Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson, both of whom were also raised on the South Side. "The trappings and glamour of the White House were never a great fit for Marian Robinson," the statement from her family said. She enjoyed sneaking out of the White House to run errands, such as popping to the drug store. In the Obamas' eight years at the White House from 2009 to 2017, "the only guest she made a point of asking to meet was the Pope," her family said.
