Michelle Obama Finally Opens Up About Personal ‘Failure’ Months After Barack Denies Divorce Rumors
Michelle and Barack Obama’s marriage is constantly being discussed. Ever since the former President and first lady left the White House, every little thing they do brings scrutiny to their relationship. In many ways, they’ve become a regular celebrity couple in this regard. It’s just that the two tend to joke around about the subject so much that people are never sure if they should take them seriously or not.
During an episode of the podcast Michelle Obama co-hosts with her brother, titled IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, the former first lady discussed being vulnerable in front of your children with television writer and film producer Mara Brock Ali. “Sometimes we don’t realize we parent out of our fears; we parent out of our of our desire not to feel the hurt, and we couch it in terms of, “we’re doing it for them,” Obama shared. “[Our children] need to see our flaws,” she insisted. “It is so helpful for them.”
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Obama’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, are 27 and 24, respectively. So, adults now.
“It’s something Barack and I try to remember all the time, seeing the vulnerability, seeing the fears, it kind of gives them, I’ve found, permission to have those same emotions,” she continued. “We think we’re shielding them but when my girls perk up its when we talk about failure right?” she went on. “And to see two parents who have succeeded at a certain level, we have to make it a point right?”
This new insight about parenthood from the couple has been plagued by divorce rumors that they, themselves, have fanned the flames of. Former President Obama spoke about his marriage while at a Jefferson Educational Society event in Erie, Pennsylvania, recently, joking, “I have spent over eight years now trying to dig myself out of a hole with Michelle. And that’s been challenging, but I feel like I’m making progress. I’m almost breaking even at the moment.”
Clear joke or not, people take it seriously. Just as they take their lack of social media activity seriously. This is something Michelle Obama attempted to explain 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 divorce rumors started after Michelle Obama skipped Donald Trump’s inauguration. On her podcast, she explained. “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 said. “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.”
Apparently, their marriage is doing well, and we just have to get used to the fact that Michelle Obama will continue to share on her podcast with us, and that means people will make up their own narrative about things.
