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Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has addressed divorce rumours circulating around her marriage to Barack. Michelle also claimed that it was time for her to start asking tough questions. According to her, women “struggle with disappointing people.”
“They couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself, so 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 herself,” Michelle said on Sophia Bush’s “Work in Progress” podcast.
Michelle further explained that she wanted to control how she spent her free time. “Who do I want to have lunch with? How long do I want to stay in a place? Do I want to travel? If a girlfriend calls and says let’s go here, I can say yes,” she said.
Michelle and Barack met in 1998 when the former American president took a job at a law firm in Chicago.
The former first lady spoke on the April 9 episode of the “Work in Progress with Sophia Bush” podcast about how having more latitude to do anything from work on her tennis game to lunch with her girlfriends led to whispers about her marriage of 32 years.
“The interesting thing is that, when I say ‘no,’ for the most part people are like, ‘I get it, and I’m OK,’” Obama said. “That’s the thing that we as women, I think we struggle with disappointing people. So much so that this year people were — they couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.”
