--- title: Rory Gilmore Visits Michelle Obama at The White House description: 'Gilmore Girls' actress Alexis Bledel appears as character Rory Gilmore in a video with Michelle Obama to promote education. canonical: https://time.com/4382953/rory-gilmore-michelle-obama/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-26T13:51:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:49.268Z og:title: Rory Gilmore Stops By the White House to Visit Michelle Obama og:description: She came bearing books and Pop-Tarts og:url: https://time.com/4382953/rory-gilmore-michelle-obama/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9db8369da5401e1/69889971e20a871fa0a915f8/gilmore-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Gilmore Girls og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rory Gilmore Stops By the White House to Visit Michelle Obama twitter:description: She came bearing books and Pop-Tarts twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9db8369da5401e1/69889971e20a871fa0a915f8/gilmore-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rory Gilmore Stops By the White House to Visit Michelle Obama > Sponsored content. 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In the video (watch it below), Alexis Bledel, in character as our patron saint Rory approaches Mrs. Obama with all the gusto and excitement one might expect from the Yale grad. “I wasn’t sure about what mood you’d be in, so I brought all of Shakespeare ‘cause you can’t go wrong with the Bard,” she says, offering Obama some “light” reading on the plane to Liberia, Morocco, and Spain. Of course, being the well-read scholar that she is, Rory also had some more options to choose from. “A little Proust. _Sophie’s Choice_ — it doesn’t matter if you’ve seen the movie. Jane Austen, I mean, c’mon it’s Jane Austen,” she spews. “_Moby Dick_, _Anna Karenina_, _The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ — you know, some classic beach reads.” The cherry on top? Lorelai is invoked as a box of blueberry Pop-Tarts (the flavor has been confirmed) emerges from Rory’s purse — a gift for the First Lady. > [](https://twitter.com/GilmoreGirls/status/746495260440723456) The Obamas launched the Let Girls Learn initiative to educate and empower adolescent girls. Learn more about the initiative on Obama’s SnapChat (user name: michelleobama), and head here for a [complete preview](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/01/gilmore-girls-netflix-everything-we-know) of the _Gilmore Girls_ Netflix revival. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/24/rory-gilmore-michelle-obama?xid=entertainment-weekly%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4382953/rory-gilmore-michelle-obama/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4382953/rory-gilmore-michelle-obama/"},"headline":"Rory Gilmore Stops By the White House to Visit Michelle Obama","datePublished":"2016-06-26T13:51:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:49.268Z","description":"Rory and FLOTUS talk books and Pop-Tarts to promote education","url":"https://time.com/4382953/rory-gilmore-michelle-obama/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9db8369da5401e1/69889971e20a871fa0a915f8/gilmore-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Evan Slead / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9db8369da5401e1/69889971e20a871fa0a915f8/gilmore-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Gilmore Girls","caption":"Gilmore Girls","creditText":"Warner Bros./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/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4382953/rory-gilmore-michelle-obama/","name":"Rory Gilmore Stops By the White House to Visit Michelle Obama"}}]}] ```