Former first lady Michelle Obama He is leaving the record about his marriage to Barack Obama.
In the second part of his conversation with Sophia Bush in the “Work in Progress” podcast, Michelle Obama addressed rumors of divorce that have circulated on her and the former president after having attended several solo events earlier this year.
While talking about making their own decisions this year, he mentioned how to make decisions for herself has not always been positively received by others.
In this archive photo of August 20, 2024, former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama appear on stage among their directions on the second night of the National Democratic Convention at the United Center in Chicago.
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“The interesting thing is that when I say ‘no’, for the most part, people say: ‘I understand’ and I’m fine,” Michelle Obama began. “That’s what we, like women, I think we fight with disappointing people, do you know?”
She continued: “So much so that this year people were, they could not even understand that I was making a decision for myself, that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing ourselves.”
“This could not be an adult woman simply making a set of decisions for herself, right? But that is what society does to us.” And if it does not fit into the type of stereotype of what people think we should do, then it is labeled as something negative and horrible. “
In another part of the podcast, the former first lady and the best selling author said: “I feel it is time for some decisions of great girls to make my life and possess it fully.”
Michelle Obama speaks on stage during a “IMO podcast recording with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson” during the SXSW 2025 conference and festival at the Austin Convention Center, on March 13, 2025, in Austin, Texas.
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“Because if not now, when? What am I waiting for?” She said. “Because look, the summers are, we are in the countd summer account in 61, right? It is not so tragic if something happens to you and you are 80. So is it time for you to start asking me these difficult questions who I want to be every day?”
In January, Barack Obama attended the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter without his wife. He also attended the inauguration of President Donald Trump only that same month.
Valentine’s Day in February, Barack Obama shared A sweet photo with Michelle Obama and subtitled the publication, “Thirty -two years together and still leave me breath.”
Michelle Obama shared The same photo in his own publication and wrote: “If there is a person with whom I can always count, it is you, @Barackobama. You are my rock. You have always been. I will always be.”
The couple has opened about their romance several times in the past.
In this archive photo of August 20, 2024, former President Barack Obama joins former First Lady Michelle Obama on the second day of the National Democratic Convention in United Center in Chicago.
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Barack Obama said Oprah.com He met Michelle Obama in 1988 in Chicago, when she was a 25 -year -old lawyer in a corporate law firm and he was an associated summer law faculty.
In 2008, Michelle Obama told ABC News that his firm was behind his meeting.
“Because I went to Harvard and he went to Harvard, and the firm thought: ‘Oh, we’ll hook these two people,” he said. “So, you know, there was a bit of intrigue, but I must say that after a month, Barack, approximately one month, invited me to go out and thought that in no way. This is completely sticky.”
They married on October 3, 1992 and shared two daughters Together: Malia Obama, 26, and Sasha Obama, 23.
