--- title: Little Girl Went As Michelle Obama's Portrait For Halloween description: Parker Curry went viral staring at Obama's portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. canonical: https://time.com/5441697/michelle-obama-costume/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-01T14:46:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:45.810Z og:title: Girl Who Said 'I Want to Be Michelle Obama' Gets Halloween Wish og:description: She went viral staring at Obama's portrait in the National Portrait Gallery og:url: https://time.com/5441697/michelle-obama-costume/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fe5153f39f6955f/69893e0a7cdbac0ce8d5e535/michelleobamaportrait.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-SINGAPORE-DIPLOMACY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Girl Who Said 'I Want to Be Michelle Obama' Gets Halloween Wish twitter:description: She went viral staring at Obama's portrait in the National Portrait Gallery twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fe5153f39f6955f/69893e0a7cdbac0ce8d5e535/michelleobamaportrait.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Little Girl Loved Michelle Obama's Portrait So Much She Made It Her Halloween Costume by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 1, 2018 2:46 PM UTC  First Lady Michelle Obama and Ho Ching(C), wife of Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong pose next to a portrait of the 16th President of the US, Abraham Lincoln as they tour the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Aug. 2, 2016. First Lady Michelle Obama and Ho Ching(C), wife of Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong pose next to a portrait of the 16th President of the US, Abraham Lincoln as they tour the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Aug. 2, 2016.CHRIS KLEPONIS—AFP/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 1, 2018 2:46 PM UTC A little girl’s love of the portrait of Michelle Obama went viral earlier this year, and she may repeat the feat with her Halloween costume. Parker Curry was just a two-year-old visitor to the [National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.](http://time.com/5143747/obama-presidential-portrait-kehinde-wiley/), when she was struck by [the official portrait of Michelle Obama](http://time.com/5158961/obama-portrait-kehinde-wiley-amy-sherald-interview/) by Baltimore artist Amy Sherald. She was captured in a photo absolutely rapt by the portrait. The image of the little girl staring in awe at the former First Lady quickly went viral, winning over many online. Eventually, the photo of Curry made it to Obama herself and she [arranged to meet her biggest fan](http://time.com/5188202/michelle-obama-meets-little-girl-looking-at-portrait/) for a little dance party. Dancing to Taylor Swift wasn’t the end of Curry’s Obama fandom, though. [_Buzzfeed_ reports](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/michelle-obama-portrait-halloween-costume-parker-curry) that Curry went as her role model for Halloween. Curry’s mother, Jessica, told the outlet that when she asked her now three-year old daughter what she wanted to be for Halloween, she didn’t hesitate: “Half of a second later. ‘I want to be Michelle Obama,’ and I was like Whoa,” Jessica said. According to BuzzFeed, the replica dress was made by Alisha Welsh, who runs a small children’s clothing company in New York, who had offered to make the little girl her own version of the dress Obama wore in the portrait when she first went viral. The pint-sized replica arrived just in time for Halloween. Curry’s mother shared the results on Instagram and it is completely adorable and fit for a politician in training. > [](https://twitter.com/%5Fparkercurry/status/1057838924238872576) > [](https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1057816699230130177) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5441697/michelle-obama-costume/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5441697/michelle-obama-costume/"},"headline":"Little Girl Loved Michelle Obama's Portrait So Much She Made It Her Halloween Costume","datePublished":"2018-11-01T14:46:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:45.810Z","description":"She went viral staring at Obama's portrait in the National Portrait Gallery","url":"https://time.com/5441697/michelle-obama-costume/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Michelle Obama","Viral News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fe5153f39f6955f/69893e0a7cdbac0ce8d5e535/michelleobamaportrait.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fe5153f39f6955f/69893e0a7cdbac0ce8d5e535/michelleobamaportrait.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-SINGAPORE-DIPLOMACY","caption":"US-SINGAPORE-DIPLOMACY","creditText":"CHRIS KLEPONIS—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5441697/michelle-obama-costume/","name":"Little Girl Loved Michelle Obama's Portrait So Much She Made It Her Halloween Costume"}}]}] ```