Townhall Participant to Obama: You and Michelle ‘Are Our Inspirations,’ How Can We Be Like You?

OBAMA: "Raise your hand."
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Thank you so much for taking my question. First off, my name is Andranae Turner. I’m a law student at Tulane [indecipherable]. I’m here with my little sister and one of my two friends from Tulane, who also went to Columbia for undergrad. First off,  I want to say we are very inspired by you and the first lady. You are our biggest inspirations. We want to be just like you guys. So can you help us? Give us some tips?”
OBAMA: “Well -- I am sorry, what was the question?” (Laughter)
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “The question is can you help us be more like you and the first lady and give us some tips to be —“
OBAMA: ‘Some tips?”
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Yes.”
OBAMA: “Well, look, I will say this. Michelle and I, we’ve been through an extraordinary journey. When we think about where we’ve come from -- Michelle grew up on the south side of Chicago. Her mom was a secretary. Her dad worked at the water filtration plant. Neither of them ever went to college. They lived on the second floor of her mom’s sister’s house. A little bungalow. We were talking the other day, she was watching HDTV. She likes watching HDTV. And for those of you who don’t know, Home and Garden TV. I guess there was a show about this so-called movement or trend towards tiny houses. All right. So people get these little tiny — some of them they put on — hitch on the back of their car. Some -- they are already there. She said, I didn’t know this was a movement because we lived in a tiny house. We just thought that’s how you live. We didn’t know this was — we were cutting edge. So her — Michelle, her brother, her dad, her mom — her dad, by the way, had multiple sclerosis, and is going to work every day, so he had to wake up an hour early every day to get to work."