Michelle Obama is throwing extra chilly water on rumors of marital strife with the ex-commander in chief.
The previous First Girl stated if her 32-year marriage with former president Barack Obama was in bother, it wouldn’t be some large secret.
“If I were having problems with my husband, everybody would know about it,” she stated throughout an look on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast launched Thursday.
Host Steven Bartlett famous that the “Becoming” creator’s absence at Trump’s inauguration in January fueled scuttlebutt over attainable discord within the couple’s union.
She laughed off the concept not showing on the occasion meant “there’s an issue with you and Barack, there’s a divorce coming.”
“Let me tell you,” she stated after pointing to her brother, Craig Robinson, “he would know it. And everybody would know it.”
The siblings are at present selling their recently-launched “IMO” podcast.
“I’m not a martyr,” the 61-year-old mom of two continued. “I would be problem-solving in public, like, ‘Let me tell you what he did,’” she joked of her partner.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama (L) greets former first girl Michelle Obama as he arrives to talk on stage in the course of the second day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Heart on August 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Picture by Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
Michelle beforehand addressed her choice skip the inauguration on the April 23 episode of “IMO.”
“My decision to skip the inauguration — or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me — were met with such ridicule and criticism,” she stated. “People couldn’t believe that I was saying no for any other reason, that they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart.”
Weeks earlier, she appeared on Sophia Bush’s “Work in Progress” podcast and shared an analogous sentiment after underscoring that her post-White Home life is determined by what she desires to do.
“People couldn’t even fathom I was making a choice for myself,” Michelle stated. “They had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing, that this couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself. … If it doesn’t fit into the stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative.”
