--- title: Michelle Obama and Zac Efron #AskFinalFive Olympic Gymnasts description: The Olympic gymnastics squad is fielding questions from anyone on Twitter — including the First Lady, the Rock, and their new pal Zac Efron. canonical: https://time.com/4456741/rio-2016-olympics-michelle-obama-final-five/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-17T21:49:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:37.694Z og:title: Michelle Obama Got Aly Raisman to Clarify Her Junk Food Stance og:description: The Olympic gymnastics squad will be fielding questions from some big names. og:url: https://time.com/4456741/rio-2016-olympics-michelle-obama-final-five/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michelle Obama Got Aly Raisman to Clarify Her Junk Food Stance twitter:description: The Olympic gymnastics squad will be fielding questions from some big names. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Michelle Obama Got Aly Raisman to Clarify Her Stance on Junk Food > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 17, 2016 9:49 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 17, 2016 9:49 PM UTC [The Final Five gymnasts](http://time.com/4455158/team-usa-gymnastics-is-the-loving-sports-family-we-should-all-want-to-join/?iid=sr-link3) — made up of the unstoppable quintet of Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez, Gabby Douglas and Madison Kocian — are riding high on their Olympic wins. So they took to Twitter for a question-and-answer session on Wednesday, responding to the #AskFinalFive hashtag. Some pretty big names got in on the action (no surprise there; the athletes [have been the toast of the town](http://time.com/4446396/2016-rio-olympics-gymnastics-friends/?iid=sr-link7) for well over a week now). Check out the questions submitted by everyone from First Lady Michelle Obama to actress Reese Witherspoon and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson — and, of course, their [new best friend and mutual crush Zac Efron](http://time.com/4455340/rio-2016-olympics-zac-efron-meets-simone-biles/?iid=sr-link8) — and watch the video responses they’ve been recording. > [](https://twitter.com/ZacEfron/status/765940440235323392) > [](https://twitter.com/Aly%5FRaisman/status/765972594868756482) > [](https://twitter.com/teamusa/status/766038941371949056) > [](https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/765969194097733632) > [](https://twitter.com/Aly%5FRaisman/status/765994977625305088) > [](https://twitter.com/Aly%5FRaisman/status/765993804289761280) > [](https://twitter.com/Simone%5FBiles/status/765986548760375296) > [](https://twitter.com/TeamUSA/status/766042528936239104) > [](https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/765988816377217024) > [](https://twitter.com/TeamUSA/status/766041443211280384) > [](https://twitter.com/RWitherspoon/status/765982904048508928) > [](https://twitter.com/RWitherspoon/status/766003796103135232) > [](https://twitter.com/TeamUSA/status/766043773365264384) > [](https://twitter.com/PiperPerabo/status/765983611002716160) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4456741/rio-2016-olympics-michelle-obama-final-five/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4456741/rio-2016-olympics-michelle-obama-final-five/"},"headline":"Michelle Obama Got Aly Raisman to Clarify Her Stance on Junk Food","datePublished":"2016-08-17T21:49:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:37.694Z","description":"The Rock, Reese Witherspoon, and Zac Efron want answers","url":"https://time.com/4456741/rio-2016-olympics-michelle-obama-final-five/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","Summer Olympics","Rio 2016","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4456741/rio-2016-olympics-michelle-obama-final-five/","name":"Michelle Obama Got Aly Raisman to Clarify Her Stance on Junk Food"}}]}] ```