Ideal Prom: Michelle Obama's embarrassing prom moment

On the Ellen DeGeneres Show in Jacksonville Fla., she and Michelle Obama had a push-up contest to see who could do the most in a given amount of time. Michelle, completing twenty five when Ellen had only managed twenty, blew her right out of the water! Ellen was a little embarrassed by this.

On the following show, before gifting three lady guests with $250 gift cards to J.C. Penney for a new prom dress, she and Michelle Obama compared their prom pictures from back in high school. DeGeneres knew everyone would get a kick out of this, with Michelle being the First Lady and what not.

Ellen teased that her old-fashioned prom dress was once a tablecloth. Michelle’s dress, on the other hand, was very revealing, with a slit in the leg that succeeded up a bit too far.

According to JessicaDerschowitz in the Celebrity Circuit article, this is how the conversation played out:

“Now, Mrs. Obama, I don't think I've ever shown you my prom picture," DeGeneres said. "I just wanted to - I want to show you my prom picture first.” Ellen playfully joked that her prom dress “was a tablecloth at one point." The audience got a good laugh out of Ellen’s comment. Not long after, the show’s anxious viewers thoroughly examined Michelle Obama’s prom dress, which consists of her seated in a chair wearing a metallic gold dress with a slit travelling up past the thigh. The audience was very well speechless! “Were you shopping at Pier 1 or something?” Ellen asked. "That split was a little high," the first lady admitted. "I don't know if I'd let my kids go out in a split that high, so let's not show this to Malia and Sasha." Obviously, the First Lady was embarrassed of the picture.