( CNN ) -- Days after Barack Obama granted the first television interview with his entire family , the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said he regrets thrusting his two young daughters in the media spotlight . `` I think that we got carried away in the moment , '' Obama told NBC Wednesday morning . `` We were having a birthday party and everybody was laughing , and suddenly this thing cropped up , and I did n't catch it quickly enough , and I was surprised by the attention it got . '' The comments came five days after the Illinois senator allowed Access Hollywood reporter Maria Menounos an interview with his entire family , including daughters Malia , 10 , and Sasha , 7 . The television show , which aired the interview Tuesday , billed it as the first interview with the whole Obama family . The interview remained decidedly light -- Malia commented on seeing her mother in People Magazine while Sasha discussed her father 's aversion to sweets -- but it was highly played across several news programs , including many on CNN . Watch : Are Obama 's kids off limits ? » . In the interview , Malia also said she often gives her dad campaign tips on how to reach out to young people her age . `` You really do n't shake kids ' hands that much , you shake adult hands , '' she said . `` And I say you just wave and say hi , so I do that kind of stuff . '' Appearing on ABC Wednesday morning , Obama said he did n't think it was healthy for his two daughters to be so exposed . `` Particularly given the way it sort of went around the cable stations , I do n't think it 's healthy , and it 's something that we 'll be avoiding in the future , '' he said . Speaking with CNN Tuesday , Menounos , the Access Hollywood reporter , said the campaign had reached out to the show for an interview and her only goal was to show the Obama family dynamic . `` No one really expected them to open up so much , '' Menounos said of the daughters . `` You know the campaign and their family were all huddled around and as surprised that the girls took over the interview as I was ! '' Stella Foster , an entertainment columnist for the Chicago-Sun Times , said she did n't see anything wrong with the interview . `` It 's not like they have the kids on camera all the time . It was like they were just having a good time -- which they need . They deserve that , '' she said . Obama and his wife , Michelle , had successfully shielded his daughters from the media spotlight since the 18 month-and-counting presidential campaign began . The campaign has repeatedly asked photographers and media outlets not to photograph the children or air images of them on the campaign trail . The veil around the children gives their interview a novelty effect , said Matthew Felling , a contributor to the American Journalism Review . `` But at the same time they are trying to have it both ways by saying ... 'Access Hollywood , ' you 're going to be friendly to us so we 'll let you come out , '' he said . `` What happens when the next organization says , 'You let them do it . Why ca n't we come to the door , too ? '' CNN 's Carol Costello contributed to this report .
Barack Obama and his whole family interviewed on ` ` Access Hollywood '' Interview was light ; discussed clothing , People Magazine , sweets . Comment: ` I think that we got carried away in the moment '' Reporter : ` ` No one really expected them to open up so much ''