Michelle Obama Joins Barack!
Visitors are able to admire the figure up close, as well as take photos with and even hug Mrs. Obama’s figure.
Mrs. Obama is the third First Lady to be immortalized in wax by Madame Tussauds Washington D.C., joining Jacqueline Kennedy and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The incredibly lifelike figure is dressed in a red, sleeveless custom-designed dress based on the purple dress she wore the night her husband claimed the Democratic presidential nomination. Her dress is accessorized with a classic pearl necklace and simple black heels.
Studio artists at Merlin Studios in London, who started working on Mrs. Obama’s figure in late December, studied hundreds of photos and watched hours of video footage to create the figure. The figure process is incredibly intricate. For example, artists insert each strand of hair individually; creating just the head of the wax figure can take up to five weeks alone. Materials such as red silk are used to create the veins on the eyeballs and it can take technicians almost four days to make a set of teeth.
Mrs. Obama’s figure joins President Obama’s figure, which was unveiled in February 2008 at Madame Tussauds Washington D.C., in the attraction’s replica of the White House Oval Office. Visitors can learn more about Mrs. Obama in the attraction’s new Presidential gallery, which features biographies of all the First Ladies.
