Former First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated her mother’s birthday on Monday by taking to Instagram. Obama added a throwback image of her mother and included a touching caption.
The resemblance between the two women was quite obvious. The former first lady included a lengthy birthday message to her mother.

Michelle Obama | Photo: Getty Images
“Whenever I see this picture, and the look in my mother’s eyes, I wonder if she has any idea what’s coming in the decades ahead: Real love and real loss, children and grandchildren who’d keep her on her toes, a wild ride to places she’d only read about or seen on television.”

Michelle Obama and Marian Shields Robinson | Photo: Getty Images
She ended her message by writing: “Happy birthday, Mom. I love you!” Obama and her husband share to daughters Sasha, 21 and Malia, 18.

Marian Shields Robinson posing for a group photo at the White House on Inauguration Day on January 20, 2013 | Photo: Wikipedia/Pete Souza
For the September issue of British Vogue, the former first lady opened up about being a parent to Duchess Meghan. The Royal guest-edited the publication with the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful.

Michelle, Sasha, and Malia Obama with Marian Shields Robinson | Photo: Getty Images
She also gave Meghan and Prince Harry some parental advice as they’re new parents to baby Archie Harrison, their first child. The former first lady confessed that when her daughters were newborns, she and her husband would spend “hours just watching them sleep.”
Robinson was born in Chicago in 1937 to Purnell Nathaniel Shields – a house painter – and his wife Rebecca Jumper, a licensed practical nurse.
She married Fraser Robinson III on October 27, 1960, and they had two children together, a son Craig and a daughter Michelle LaVaughn, who was named after Fraser's mother.
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