BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Why is every style magazine, fashion website and now health initiative citing this downright ugly woman who looks like she FELL into her closet and then got PUSHED by out as some sort of ultimate female icon? Disgusting really. Trim? yes. Attractive? NO! By Geoff Earle Chicago may not be getting the Olympics, but Michelle Obama is looking fit enough to compete in the Games. The first lady took part in a triathlon of high-energy exercises on the White House lawn yesterday, showing off her skills -- and her thin new look -- at the Healthy Kids Fair. Mrs. Obama put her flattening stomach and still-curvy hips to good use when she took a turn with a Hula-Hoop. She managed a challenging 142 hula swivels, hiking up her fashionable wide belt above her diminishing waistline. She even ditched her shoes and ran barefoot through the grass on an obstacle course set up on the South Lawn. The first lady continued her heart-pounding workout by jumping rope, although her effort at double Dutch -- whi...

She needs more than a full-time make-up artist. She needs plastic surgery and an attitude adjustment. Narcissists - ALLLLLL about the image. GLAMOUR 'FIRST' by Annie Karni She's America's top "model." Michelle Obama is the nation's first first lady to add a full-time makeup artist to her traveling entourage, according to stylists who have worked with presidential wives over the past 16 years. Makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, helped create Obama's signature look on her inaugural trip to Europe last week. Grimes-Miles, who has been working with the first lady for six years, now splits her time between DC and Chicago, where she dolls up morning-news anchors for WGN TV. "No other first ladies have consistently traveled with a makeup artist," said hairdresser Bernard Portelli, who styled Hillary Rodham Clinton's blond mane in 1993 and tracks trends in first-lady style. "It took Laura Bush four years to finally look good. It's ta...