Michelle Obama Breaks Silence on Barack Obama Divorce Rumors

Michelle Obama is breaking her silence on the speculation surrounding her marriage to Barack Obama. Speaking on the April 8 episode of Sophia Bush’s “Work in Progress” podcast, the former First Lady discussed what her life looks like nearly a decade after leaving the White House. “It’s the first time in my life that all of my choices are for me. But it’s also a little scary because as a mom and a busy person, I always had – it was somebody else’s excuse. Why didn’t I do this? Why haven’t I gone there? ‘Well, I have to make sure the girls are okay or my husband’s president, so I can’t do that.’” Later in the conversation, the best-selling author, who acknowledged that losing her mom last year has also impacted her current perspective, suggested that her newfound independence led people to dissect the state of her marriage. “I think we as women – I think we struggle with disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year people were, you know, 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. This couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself. But that’s what society does to us,” she said, adding, “If it doesn’t fit into the sort of stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative and horrible.”