Michelle Obama is recalling one of her last conversations with her mother, Marian Robinson. The former First Lady, 61, discussed Marian, who died in May 2024 at age 86, during a Wednesday, November 5 event in New York City to promote her latest book, The Look. Obama shared that she finally understood why Marian had started preparing her and brother Craig Robinson for her death when they were kids. "What she was doing was letting us know that she loved us, but that we could live life with and without her, and I understand that now as a parent," Obama said, per People.