Former First Lady of the United States of America Michelle Obama has moved to address rumours of her divorce from her husband and former president, Barack Obama.
In an interview with the Work in Progress podcast, the mother of two talked about the delicate subject and said she’s just a grown woman making her own decisions.
According to Michelle, the reason why the divorce rumors started was because she missed two important events with her husband, the former US president.
While clearing the air, she talked about the difficulty of disappointing people and explained why she chose not to go to President Donald Trump’s inauguration and President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.
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“That’s the thing that 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,” she stated.
“That this couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right? That’s what society does to us. Touching on societal stereotypes”, she added.
“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.” She said while speaking on expectations society has for women.
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