Former First Lady Michelle Obama is straightening his marriage Barack Obama.
In the second part of his conversation with Sophia Bush at Podcast “Work in Progress”, Michelle Obama discussed the rumors of divorce that had been circulating about him and former president after he attended several Solo events earlier this year.
When talking about making his own decision this year, he mentioned how to make choices for himself not always positively accepted by others.
In August 2024, submitted a photo, former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on the stage between their address on the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago.
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“What’s interesting is that when I say ‘no,’ most of them, people like, ‘I understand’ and I’m fine,” Michelle Obama started. “That’s what we, as women, I think we fight with people who are disappointing, you know?”
He continued, “In such a way that this year people – they cannot even understand that I make a choice for myself, that they must assume that my husband and I divorced.”
“This is not an adult woman just making a series of decisions for herself, right? But that’s what the community did to us. We actually started in the end, ‘What am I doing? For whom I did this?'” He added. “And if it does not match the kind of stereotype from what people think we have to do, then it is labeled as something negative and terrible.”
In another place in Podcast, the former First Lady and Best -Selling Writer said, “I feel it’s time for me to make some big girl’s decisions about my life and have it fully.”
Michelle Obama spoke on stage during the recording of Podcast “IMO with Michelle Obama & 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?” he said. “Because see, summer -we are in the count of summer backwards in 61 right? Not too tragic if something happens to you and you are 80 years old. So now is the time for me to start asking yourself questions about who is difficult about who is really -really I want 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 Solo in the same month.
On Valentine’s Day in February, Barack Obama distributed A sweet photo with Michelle Obama and writing a post, “Thirty -two years together and you are still taking my breath.”
Michelle Obama distributed The same photo in his own post and wrote, “If there is one person I can always rely on, that’s you, @barackobama. You are my stone. Always. Always.”
The couple had opened up their romance several times in the past.
In August 2024, submitted a photo, former President Barack Obama joined former First Lady Michelle Obama on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago.
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Barack Obama tells Oprah.com That he met Michelle Obama in 1988 in Chicago, when he was a 25 -year -old lawyer in a company law firm and he was a summer colleague who completed law school.
In 2008, Michelle Obama told ABC News that his company was behind their meeting.
“Because I went to Harvard and he went to Harvard, and the company thought, ‘Oh, we will associate these two people,'” he said. “So, you know, there is a little intrigue, but I have to say after about a month, Barack, about a month, inviting me, and I think it’s impossible. This is really tacky.”
They bind the knot on October 3, 1992, and share two girl Together -Same: Malia Obama, 26, and Sasha Obama, 23.