From Jackie and John Fitzgerald Kennedy to Melania and Donald Trump, passing through Hillary and Bill Clinton. Gossip and speculation about the private lives of a First Family are part of the game, but if a couple has the charm of Michelle and Barack Obama, beautiful, intelligent, committed, and married for 32 years, they are destined to continue even after leaving the White House. And so it has been in recent years, but in the last few months, since the former president appeared without his spouse at two important events like Trump’s inauguration and Jimmy Carter’s funeral, rumors have increased that the two live separate lives and divorce is imminent.
Michelle, someone who has made staying true to oneself her philosophy of life and also a successful business of books, has decided to address this directly in Sophia Bush’s podcast “Work in Progress.” “People cannot conceive that a woman can make choices independently,” said the 61-year-old, emphasizing that “for people it is incredible that an adult woman makes a series of decisions on her own,” regardless of husbands, partners, boyfriends. The former first lady admitted to having more control over her commitments now that she is no longer tied to the White House and her two daughters Malia, 26, and Sasha, 23, are independent. “I am free to do what I want and not what I have to or what others want me to do,” Michelle claimed, who, according to sources close to the couple, couldn’t wait to leave Washington and spend more time between her hometown, Chicago, and California.
This is not the first time the Obamas have spoken openly about their relationship and the crises they have faced, like all couples who have been together for years. “People think I’m bad when I say this: but for 10 years I couldn’t stand my husband,” Michelle revealed in 2022, opening up about the difficulties of raising their daughters alone. “I was changing diapers and he was playing golf,” she said back then. Barack then confessed to being hurt by his wife’s criticisms, assuring that he spends all his free time from work at home with the family. However, highs and lows have been widely overcome, as demonstrated by the many occasions when the two darlings of the Democrats have appeared together to support Kamala Harris’s election campaign.
Until the end of the summer when gossip began circulating about a betrayal by the former president with ‘Friends’ star Jennifer Aniston, who is also often a victim of unfounded gossip like being pregnant with twins every other year. The actress herself denied the rumors, claiming to know Michelle better than Barack, but curiosity continues to linger. Aniston and Obama were already rumored to be lovers eleven years ago, in an article in the prestigious The Economist. However, it turned out to be a fanciful and ironic reconstruction, titled “if American politicians were like the French,” in which even Hillary Clinton was brought into the mix as the former president’s “official girlfriend.”
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