The mother of Michelle Obama, Marian Robinson, has died at 86 years old.
According to Michelle,Marian passed away Friday morning.
In a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, the former first lady of US called her mother her “rock, always there for whatever I needed”.
She wrote, “She was the same steady backstop for our entire family, and we are heartbroken to share she passed away today.”
In a separate tweet, the former president of UK, Barrack Obama also said that “there was and will be only one Marian Robinson”.
“In our sadness, we are lifted up by the extraordinary gift of her life,” he added. “And we will spend the rest of ours trying to live up to her example.”
Born in 1937, Robinson grew up one of seven children in Chicago, the city where she spent much of her life before agreeing to come to Washington DC after Mr Obama’s electoral victory.
Early in her life, she studied to become a teacher before working as a secretary. She raised Michelle and her other child, Craig, together with her husband Frasier Robinson on Chicago’s South Side.
Robinson was a well-known fixture at the White House during the eight years of Barack Obama’s administration between 2009-17.
She spent much of that time taking care of her two granddaughters, Malia and Sasha, daughters to Michelle and Barack Obama.
