“Stamped as a terrible”
Michelle Obama reveals the origin of the divorce rumors
Michelle Obama reveals the origin of the divorce rumors
04/10/2025, 04:43 a.m.
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Many observers see Michelle and Barack Obama marriage at the beginning of the year. The former First Lady now explains how the divorce rumors came about and what was really behind it.
Former US President Barack Obama appeared solo at the beginning of the year for the inauguration of Donald Trump and the funeral of ex-President Jimmy Carter. Rumors quickly made the round that his marriage to Michelle Obama would be in the crisis. The former First Lady has now given such speculation. She only “decided to do what was best for me,” she revealed at a podcast appearance.
It was her conscious decision to stay away from the two occasions mentioned, Michelle Obama revealed in a new edition of the “Work in Progress” podcast. At the age of 61, they ask themselves questions like: “Who do I really want to be? So who do I want to eat with lunch with? How long do I want to stay in one place?” Would I like to travel? “
But such decisions would be interpreted in a special way. “And that is what we have to fight as women – to disappoint people,” she continued. “So much that people couldn’t even understand that I made a decision for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I divorce.”
Barack Obama spoke of “big deficit” in his marriage
If personal decisions did not match social expectations, “then it is stamped as something negative and terrible,” explains Obama. “I decided to do what was best for me, not what I had to do, not what others wanted from me, and entirely below us, that was an important test for me as a woman as an independent person.”
Michelle Obama’s husband Barack, however, only revealed a few days ago that he was in a “big deficit” during his presidency in marriage. In the years since leaving the Oval Office, he had therefore tried to make up for a lot, said the 63-year-old according to a report by the portal “The Daily Beast”. He tried to overcome the ditch by doing “occasionally fun things”.
