Ellen DeGeneres may have been known for her wild antics and pranks on The Ellen Show but that doesn’t mean everyone was a fan.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama made that much clear during a recent appearance on Amy Poehler‘s Good Hang podcast where the ladies were discussing the woes of aging.
After complaining about their shoulder pain, Poehler asked Obama if she can still do push-ups which reminded the former First Lady of an appearance she made on The Ellen Show in 2012.
“Now I do them on my knees,” Obama said. “This is another thing. I don’t need to do regular push-ups. I have nothing to prove. I can but it’s my hard. My arm length doesn’t go all the way down. You know who pointed that out was Ellen because my first term, she challenged me to a push-up competition.”
Obama wryly pointed out, “I’m the first lady, you know.”
She continued, “And she heard that I worked out. So I’m on her show doing push-ups and I did more push-ups than her but she still says I didn’t go down all the way. Anatomically, I don’t think I can. My arms are very long and she’s a much smaller person than me.”
Obama did, in fact, beat DeGeneres during that challenge with 25 push-ups. She even began teasing DeGeneres during the challenge.
“It depends on how your back is,” she told DeGeneres at the time. “I know that you have these back issues.” Obama’s comment fired DeGeneres up as she proceeded to take her jacket off for the challenge.
The former first lady told DeGeneres that she decided to stop at 25 push-ups but she could have kept going, to which DeGeneres fired back, “I thought it wouldn’t be good to show off the first lady so I stopped.”
As Obama and the audience laughed, she added, “Because I thought, ‘This looks bad that I’m going to beat her.’”
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