Yet one more time for these within the again: Michelle Obama and former president Barack Obama will not be getting divorced. In an interview on Sophia Bush’s podcast, Work in Progress, printed Wednesday, the previous first woman clarified that simply because she’s not all the time bodily together with her husband, she’s nonetheless with him.
Alluding to her absence at each the state funeral of former president Jimmy Carter in January and the inauguration of Donald Trump later that very same month, which her husband attended solo, Michelle stood beside her choices to skip the events.
“I selected to do what’s finest for me, not what I needed to do,” she stated, not explicitly singling out both occasion. She has been essential of Trump prior to now, and has urged the world to not “normalize” him or his insurance policies.
The skipped engagements have been pointed to by conspiracy theorists, who, for months have claimed the pair are splitting up, typically with an also-untrue aspect of accusations that Barack had an affair with Jennifer Aniston, a rumor that Vainness Honest reported the lengthy tail of, and debunked.
On the podcast, Michelle continued that folks “couldn’t even fathom that I used to be making a alternative for myself, that they needed to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.”
“This couldn’t be a grown lady simply making a set of choices for herself, proper?” she stated. “However that’s what society does to us.”
Subsequent factor you realize, she’ll have her personal bank card and resolve what to put on with out her husband’s approval. It’s a slippery slope.
Michelle lately launched a podcast of her personal, co-hosted together with her brother, Craig Robinson, referred to as IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson. On the present’s first episode, she talked about divorce—her brother’s, and the way harm she was when her sibling didn’t inform her about his cut up from his spouse years in the past.
Representatives for Michelle and Barack Obama didn’t instantly return Vainness Honest’s request for remark.
