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First Lady Flub! Michelle Obama Accidentally Calls Herself A 'Busy Single Mother'

Michelle Obama

April 5 2013, Published 8:53 a.m. ET

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Freudian slip?

Michelle Obama, speaking with Burlington, Vt. CBS affiliate WCAX-TV Thursday, mistakenly described herself as a "busy single mother" -- apparently forgetting about her husband, President Barack Obama.

The beautiful first lady, as talented a speaker as her husband, didn't miss a beat in clarifying her slight slip-of-tongue.

“Believe me, as a busy single mother -- or I shouldn’t say single -- as a busy mother, sometimes when you’ve got a husband who is president it can feel a little single. But he’s there.”

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Michelle, 49, was talking to the