Michelle Obama Unleashes on Her School Lunch Critics: ‘What Is Wrong with You?!’

Former First Lady Michelle Obama had harsh words for critics of her controversial school lunch overhaul.

"This is where you really have to look at motives," Obama said of her detractors during a Friday appearance. "You have to stop and think, why don't you want our kids to have good food at school? What is wrong with you?!"

Obama said her critics don't care about America's children.

"Like me, don’t like me, but think about why someone is OK with your kids eating crap?" she asked. "Why would you celebrate that? Why would you sit idly and be ok with that? Because here’s the secret: If somebody is doing that, they don’t care about your kids. And we need to demand everyone to care deeply about our kids. That’s all we have."

Obama appeared at a summit held by the organization she co-founded, The Partnership for a Healthier America, and was interviewed by her former White House chef, Sam Kass.

Kass asked Obama why she ran into so many obstacles pushing her healthy food platform. 

Americans, Obama replied, "think we can have everything," and those expectations make it harder to encourage them to adopt healthier lifestyles.

Obama also accused critics of her revamped nutritional labels of wanting to "keep families ignorant." 

Their message, she said, is: "Just be quiet, spend your money, don't ask us about what's in your food."

"You want to talk about nanny state and government intervention, well, you just buy the food and be quiet and you don’t need to know what is in it," she added. "That is essentially what a move like this is saying to you moms.”

Obama said her White House garden was designed to inspire Americans who live in communities where "they don't even see a vegetable and they don’t even have access to a grocery store."

Still, Obama confessed that healthy living is hard even for her.

"This isn't complicated, it's not hard; because children’s metabolisms are such that all it takes is better balanced meals, few more home cooked meals, a little more movement, and they are good," she said. "You get me at 53 — shoot, I can’t lose a pound."