Michelle Obama and Barack Obama told their daughters to "date a lot" to find their perfect match

Speaking on a recent episode of the IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson podcast, the 61-year-old attorney explained to her 63-year-old brother: "I just try to get them to stay open to people.

"The thing that I did do was date a lot. And so when Barack showed up, I had experiences to compare him against. I knew a lot of (how) I didn't like this. I didn't like that.

"We try to sort of educate the girls by sharing our experiences.

"So my whole thing is date. Date a lot, and if you run into a bad date or have a bad experience, move on quickly."

Michelle met Barack, 64, in 1989 as a first-year associate at the Chicago, Illinois, office of the law firm Sidley and Austin, with the 44th US President being a Harvard law student working at the company as an intern.

Michelle - who was his advisor - "wasn't looking to date", and even before she and her husband met, Michelle was not sure about Barack because he left a big impression on the law firm's partners, and she thought he was a "nerd".

Michelle - who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988 - explained: "I was a practicing attorney at my law firm. I was a first-year associate.

"Barack is older than me, but he took time off and was at Harvard after I graduated.

"So when I was a first-year associate after I graduated, he was just a first-year in law school.

"And so every summer, law school students would intern at big firms. They'd be interviewed, they'd get hired, they'd work for the summer as summer associates.

"So, as a first-year associate, I was on the Harvard recruiting team. So I knew of him, this Barack Obama.

"And everyone was abuzz about him. All the business partners on the Harvard recruiting team were talking about this hotshot, first-year Harvard law student who was brilliant.

"So I got his profile and I thought, 'What kind of name is Barack Obama?'

"I was like, 'He's black,' and everybody at the firm was excited that he was black.

"And I was like, 'He's probably, kind of, weird because he's a nerd.

"If a lot of white people are all infatuated with him, I was a little sceptical."

However, when Michelle and Barack had their first phone call, she felt a spark.

Michelle continued: "So I had to call him on the phone. So I had this image of this nerdy guy. And then the first kind of sparky, kind of, feeling I felt actually was when I talked to him on the phone, and he had this Barack Obama voice.

"He was like, 'Hello.' So the voice was sexier than the image that I had about him.

"So I was sort of like, 'Ooh, I didn't expect this.'"