Ellen DeGeneres should have known not to challenge First Lady Michelle Obama to any sort of fitness competition. The woman is seriously in shape. She holds a world record for jumping jacks, after all, and boasts an official portrait worthy of the cover of a fitness magazine.
But those impressive credentials didn’t stop DeGeneres from challenging the First Lady to a push-up contest on her talk show, the Telegraph reports. “How many push-ups can you do?” DeGeneres asked the first lady. Not one to back down from a competition, Obama casually responded, “some.”
With the pressure on, DeGeneres certainly held her own. But the First Lady clearly won, completing 25 push-ups — and as The Page notes, she easily could have kept going.
After losing the challenge, DeGeneres joked, “I thought it wouldn’t be good to show up the First Lady, so I stopped. I thought, ‘This looks bad that I’m going to beat her.’”
On the show to promote “Let’s Move,” her campaign for healthy living, it’s clear that FLOTUS practices what she preaches.
Ellen DeGeneres should have known not to challenge First Lady Michelle Obama to any sort of fitness competition. The woman is seriously in shape. She holds a world record for jumping jacks, after all, and boasts an official portrait worthy of the cover of a fitness magazine.
But those impressive credentials didn’t stop DeGeneres from challenging the First Lady to a push-up contest on her talk show, the Telegraph reports. “How many push-ups can you do?” DeGeneres asked the first lady. Not one to back down from a competition, Obama casually responded, “some.”
With the pressure on, DeGeneres certainly held her own. But the First Lady clearly won, completing 25 push-ups — and as The Page notes, she easily could have kept going.
After losing the challenge, DeGeneres joked, “I thought it wouldn’t be good to show up the First Lady, so I stopped. I thought, ‘This looks bad that I’m going to beat her.’”
On the show to promote “Let’s Move,” her campaign for healthy living, it’s clear that FLOTUS practices what she preaches.