In a C-SPAN interview for First Ladies: Influence and Image, former first lady Laura Bush, has said that first ladies don’t deserve to be paid.

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“There are plenty of perks, believe me. A chef, that was really great, I miss the chef.”

She then went on to point out the sexist double-standard.

“That’s what we’ll have to come to terms with, Certainly a first gentleman might continue to work at whatever he did.

I think that the American public sees the first lady in very glamorous circumstances…I think what they may not imagine looking at the White House from the outside is that it’s actually a very normal life upstairs…The first lady probably, and I know I did, lays on the couch an reads a book. In my case, my cat would always curl up next to me.”