Michelle Obama was a guest on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show Monday and she talked family stuff, how she empathized with Sarah Palin over her expensive wardrobe fiasco and how she deals with the delicate issue herself.

Michelle Obama wore a cheery yellow outfit and a cheery smile as a guest on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. She revealed her ensemble had been purchased from J. Crew and that she habitually acquires her clothing online, where you can find “some good stuff.”

As her host wondered whether Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s decision to accept new clothes from the Republican National Committee worth nearly $150,000 had been “a bad move on her part,” Michelle Obama responded that she tried to be “empathetic” with the Alaska governor.

She then went on to describe how it is to suddenly be nominated vice presidential candidate, an experience similar to “being shot out of a cannon.” One moment you are still mildly anonymous and in your comfort zone and the next you are placed under scrutiny and need to appear before millions of people across the nation, she said.

“But our policy has always been whatever we wear, for us, we buy,” the wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama added.

Michelle Obama also talked about her husband’s current trip to Hawaii to visit his ill grandmother and about their two young daughters’ obliviousness regarding daddy’s day job.

Michelle Obama recounted how their ten-year-old daughter Malia, recently overhearing her father talk about the paid television ads running Wednesday night as part of his campaign, had asked Barack Obama if he would “interrupt” her TV and how he pacified her with the response that he hadn’t bought time on her favorite channels, Disney and Nickelodeon. “She was just like, ‘Don't mess with my TV,’” Michelle Obama humorously told her host and audience.

Michelle Obama also revealed how her husband had managed to make time for them to celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary, even though they’re in the middle of the campaign.