Barack Obama has hilariously apologized to a young family after accidentally strolling into the background of their adorable photoshoot.
Portia Moore was watching her two young children, Preston and Belle, on Monday morning as family photographer Briana Inell took took their picture under a Cherry Blossom tree at the Washington DC Tidal Basin.
At the same time, former President Obama walked behind the children, styling a pair of form-fitting black pants, a white button down, a baseball cap and sunglasses.
‘Of course, I’m paying attention to my son, making sure he doesn’t run into the water. He’s 20 months old,’ Moore recounted to NBC Washington.
But her eagle-eyed husband, Damien, quickly spotted the famous photobomber.
‘My husband’s like «That’s Obama,»‘ she recounted. ‘I didn’t know what he was saying. I was like, «Yeah, whatever I’m looking at Preston right now.»‘
It was only when she picked up her son that she asked her husband what he was trying to tell her.
‘That’s Obama!’ he replied.
He has since apologized for ‘stepping into the shot’ as he said he hoped the children enjoyed peak bloom of Washington DC’s Cherry Blossom trees
Moore said they immediately rushed to see if they managed to capture the 44th president in the background of one of their pictures.
‘We went to the photographer and she scrolled back, and we’re like «We got it,»‘ Moore said.
Moore posted the photo to Instagram, showing her daughter with her hair back in a pink dress and sneakers and her young son wearing an all-denim ensemble with sneakers.
‘Look who strolled by in our picture for our family Cherry Blossom photoshoot,’ she wrote.
Obama shared the photo and a message to the family with his 36.6 million followers on Instagram.
‘Preston and Belle, I hope you enjoyed peak bloom! My bad for stepping into the shot,’ he wrote.
Obama had earlier posted photos from the same location.
‘It’s fun to be able to play tourist once in a while,’ he wrote. ‘The cherry blossoms were beautiful this morning!’
Now, Moore says she wishes she could go back to that moment to invite Obama to join them on their next photoshoot.
‘Come for next year’s shoot,’ she pleaded. ‘Same place, same time, same date. We’ll be here.’
In the meantime, Inell said she will always remember that moment.
‘Usually I’m editing all of the tourists out of the backgrounds for all my clients anyways, but this is the one photo that I won’t be editing out this person,’ she vowed.
