It’s the one question you’re told never to ask a woman. But that didn’t stop a cute little girl at the White House today from asking Michelle Obama, “How old are you?”

“How old are you?” the first lady bemoaned.

“I’m 51,” she confidently told the crowd of eager, fidgety children in the East Room during her annual question-and-answer session as part of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.



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But, then, the girl gave some inaudible reaction. “What? What does that mean? What’s that look?” Obama asked the young questioner.

“Say that again? Give her the mic,” the first lady said, motioning to a member of her staff. “What was that, babe? I didn’t hear you.”

“You look too young for a 51-year-old,” the girl said, much to Obama’s delight.

“Thank you,” the first lady exclaimed. “You should come up here and give me a hug. … Come give me a hug for that one.”

The little girl, in a pink and white dress, threw her arms open as she ran up to the stage and embraced the quinquagenarian.