The First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama said people have inaccurately portrayed her as an angry black woman.

"I guess it's just more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here," Michelle Obama said in an interview on CBS News.

"That's been an image people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced, that I'm some kind of angry black woman."

The comments are a response to "The Obamas" book from New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor that was published yesterday.

In the book, Kantor says that Michelle Obama has clashes with staff at the White House.