Barack Obama Finally Addresses Michelle Divorce Rumors: ‘Don’t Let Me Start Tearing Up… ‘
Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have been one of the steadiest couples in entertainment and politics for a while. And yet, even they aren’t immune to divorce rumors. In fact, the divorce rumors have seemingly intensified since the two have become more public figures than political figures. But is there any truth to the notion that they’re having marriage problems?
Barack Obama was a guest on an episode of the podcast his wife, Michelle, co-hosts with her older brother Craig Robinson, titled IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, and the two discussed their relationship. But first, they poked fun at the rumors.
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“Welcome to IMO, look at you,” Michelle said to her husband, with her brother joking, “Wait, you guys like each other?” The joke went on. “Oh yeah, really, huh. That’s the rumor mill,” she replied. “It’s my husband, y’all.”
“She took me back!” Barack Obama got in on the joke. “Now don’t start,” his wife replied. “It was touch and go for a while,” he joked back. Later in the conversation, Robinson said it was nice to have them both in the same room, to which Michelle Obama replied, “When we aren’t, folks think we’re divorced.”
Seems like the marriage is doing just fine.
In case there were any doubts, Michelle dispelled them later, saying, “There hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I’ve thought about quitting my man, and we’ve had some really hard times. We’ve had a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures, and I have become a better person because of the man I’m married to.”
“Don’t let me start tearing up now,” was the former President’s response.
Last month, Michelle Obama responded to speculation about her marriage during NPR’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin. “It’s like, OK, so we don’t Instagram every minute of our lives,” she said. “We are 60. We’re 60, y’all. We just, you just are not gonna know what we’re doing every minute of the day, you know?”
The rumors were partly due to the fact that the former First Lady skipped Donald Trump’s inauguration, a choice she’d previously addressed on the podcast. “My decision to skip the inauguration, what people don’t realize, or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me, were met with such ridicule and criticism,” she explained. “People couldn’t believe that I was saying no for any other reason, that they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart, you know.”
Michelle Obama has also recently spoken about her daughter Malia’s decision to change her name professionally. “Our daughters [Malia and Sasha] are 25 and 23. They are young adult women, but they definitely went through a period in their teen years where it was the push away … [where] you’re trying to distinguish yourself,” she said. “I mean, it is very important for my kids to feel like they’ve earned what they are getting in the world, and they don’t want people to assume that they don’t work hard, that they’re just naturally, just handed things,” she added. “They’re very sensitive to that — they want to be their own people.”
Nothing to see here, just a happy family.
