PETA launched its newest campaign, “Fur-Free and Fabulous” last week and the White House is in an uproar. First Lady Michelle Obama appears alongside Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey and Carrie Underwood in advertisements for the organization (which can be seen in the D.C. area).

All four women have openly refused to wear real fur, but the White House maintains that the First Lady is not a spokesperson for the PETA organization and that they had no right to use Obama’s image in their ads.

In response, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk insists they wouldn’t have sought Obama’s consent for the ad because they know that she can’t make such an endorsement.

“The fact is that Michelle Obama has issued a statement indicating that she doesn’t wear fur, and the world should know that in PETA’s eyes, that makes her pretty fabulous,” she said in a press statement.

PETA senior vice president Dan Mathews added that Obama should be flattered. Introducing the campaign, he said: “By rejecting fur, these style icons demonstrate to the world that fur is old-fashioned and cruel.”