Week in Review: Barack Obama Gushes About Wife Michelle

Usmagazine.com looks back at the week in celebrity news: - Barack Obama gushed that his wife Michelle is an "extraordinary mother" to their two daughters. "Nothing is more important to Michelle than being a good mother," the Democratic presidential nominee tells Us Weekly in its new issue, on newsstands now. "She works every day to instill in our girls the same values we were raised with." Check out the latest issue of Us Weekly , available now, for the full untold story on why Barack loves Michelle, her struggle to get pregnant, why she rejected Barack when he first asked her out, and how she took her best friend to see Sex and the City on opening day. (See Barack's Just Like Us gallery.) - Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to daughter Maddie Briann in Mississippi Thursday. "I'm sure the baby's beautiful, and I'm so glad everybody's healthy and doing well," the 17-year-old's cousin Alli Sims told Usmagazine.com. Read why Spears chose the name Maddie here and check out ... [link]