Michelle Obama says keeping daughters’ teenage smoking and drinking out of tabloids was a ‘nightmare’ - The former First Lady revealed the struggles of letting her daughters be normal teenagers while

Former first lady Michelle Obama said she stopped spanking her daughters when they were growing up because it made her feel “silly.” Obama said she spanked Malia and Sasha — now 26 and 23 — a few times before she felt that it wasn’t an effective way to discipline them,