Washington ? Never mind health care.

How ’bout those blue jeans?

“I heard they were cracking on my jeans,” President Barack Obama said of the postgame review of the baggy pants — “mom jeans” to some — that he wore while throwing the ceremonial first pitch at Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game last week.

The president, who “hates to shop,” says he is fine with “frumpy.”

In the midst of a White House interview covering everything from the president’s push for health care reform and criticism for bonuses on Wall Street, to the Taliban’s capture of an American soldier in Afghanistan and an American family’s attempt to retrieve a child from Brazil, NBC News’ Meredith Vieira asked Obama about his jeans.

With a wife widely credited for her fashion sense, the president was asked if he wants to defend his pants.

“No … here’s my attitude,” Obama said in the interview broadcast Tuesday. “Michelle, she looks fabulous. I’m a little frumpy.

“Basically, up until a few years ago, I only had four suits. She used to tease me, because they’d get really shiny. … I hate to shop.”

And then he went on to defend the jeans anyway.

“Those jeans are comfortable,” the president said. “For those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I’m sorry, I’m not the guy.

“It just doesn’t fit me — I’m not 20.”