Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, raised eyebrows about the state of her marriage when she chose not to attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral with her husband, Barack Obama.
The rumors of their potential split grew even stronger when Michelle Obama confirmed she would not be in attendance at President Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
While addressing the divorce rumors during an appearance on Sophia Bush’s Work in Progress podcast on Wednesday.
“The interesting thing is that, when I say ‘no,’ for the most part people are like, ‘I get it, and I’m OK,’” she said.
“That’s the thing that we as women, I think we struggle with disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year people 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, right?” she added. “But that’s what society does to us. We start actually, finally going, ‘What am I doing? Who am I doing this for?’ And 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.”
