First Lady Michelle Obama stays in strict control of building her own image. Other First Ladies submitted themselves to the demands of magazine editors and their make up artists. Not Michelle Obama, who has pointedly remained in control, methodically extending it far beyond the normal fashion barriers. Michelle is making her mark on the world, along side her husband.

Mrs. Obama is a multifaceted lady. A Harvard-trained lawyer and former hospital vice president, she is also a tough-minded professional who cares deeply about influencing public policy and sometimes promotes legislation at her events. Mrs. Obama’s aides are working with the president’s domestic policy team to help develop strategies to support working parents.

“It’s the softer, domestic side that we’re seeing, which appeals to a lot of people,” Ms. Schultz said. “But a lot of us are cheering her on and hoping we’re going to hear more from that public policy side of Michelle Obama. Maybe it’s the old-fashioned feminist in me. I want to keep celebrating that brain,” says Connie Schultz, a journalist and author, whose husband is a Senator.

“I don’t have to deal with the hard problems every day,” Michelle Obama told a group of schoolchildren this week. “I get to do the fun stuff.”

Ten months ago Mrs. Obama was described as an angry black woman by some conservatives and as a liability to her husband. In a most remarkable organic-political transformation, the First Lady is widely admired for her warmth and her vibrant and accessible manner. She has the highest favorability ratings of any incoming First Lady since 1980 and is even more popular than the president. We have shades of and African-American Princess Di in the making. Princess Diana was one of the most loved female personalities of the 1990’s.

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