Michelle Obama believes in a healthy low-fat, low-sugar diet — but her Secret Service detail seems to have other ideas.
When the First Lady went to the Meatpacking District Monday to visit a couple who have contributed generously to her husband’s presidential campaigns, one of the agents protecting her was on the hunt for cupcakes.
After attending the ribbon-cutting at the newly named Anna Wintour Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum (Wintour has twice put the First Lady on the cover of Vogue), Mrs. Obama went downtown to the West 12th Street apartment of Tracy Maitland and Kimberly Hatchett.
While she was upstairs visiting the couple, a Secret Service agent asked the doorman for directions.
A neighbor told me, “One agent was asking how to get to Magnolia Bakery,” the Bleecker Street cupcake joint famed for its sugar-spun sweets topped with buttercream frosting. Perhaps the agent is a “Sex and the City” fan — the television show made Magnolia a tourist destination for wannabe Carrie Bradshaws.
No word on what Mrs. Obama was served while at the Maitland-Hatchett household.
Maitlaid runs Advent Capital Management, while his wife — a former Olympic hopeful in the 400-meter hurdles — is at Morgan Stanley.
It is expected that the influential couple will eventually be big contributors for the Obama Presidential Library — whether it ends up being built in New York, Chicago or Honolulu.