Michelle's Posse

First Lady Michelle Obama resisted moving with her husband away from Chicago until the last possible moment—when he became the leader of the free world. She managed the move by bringing her closest friends from Chicago along with her, including her personal trainer, who she's employed for ten years. Michelle's extensive support group might be part of the reason the first lady seems to be having so much fun. She unabashedly admits she stays out of politics (unlike Hillary Clinton, who sent an envoy to almost every single White House meeting), and is enjoying a domestic sabbatical from 20 years of working as a high-powered lawyer even as feminists decry her "Mom in Chief" self-designation. "I know women who have given up a lot of themselves," she said. "And there were times in my marriage where I put stuff aside. This isn't one of those times."