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Michelle Obama, wife of former US President Barack Obama, has addressed rumors that her marriage is on the verge of breaking up.
Michelle has not accompanied her husband to several national events – including Donald Trump’s inauguration and the funeral of former US President Jimmy Carter – fueling speculation that they may be estranged.
Without explicitly mentioning these events, Mrs Obama told the Work in Progress podcast hosted by actress Sophia Bush that she is now in a position to control her own diary as a “grown woman”.
She said that people don’t believe she is “making her own decision” and instead “had to make the argument that my husband and I are getting a divorce”.
Mrs. Obama admitted that she felt guilty for withdrawing from certain responsibilities.
“That’s something that we as women, I think, struggle with,” she said.
“This is so obvious, that this year people couldn’t even understand that I had made a personal decision, they had to think that my husband and I were getting a divorce.”
“This can’t be a woman making her own decisions, right? But that’s what society does to us.”
Mrs. Obama also said in the podcast: “I decided to do what was best for me. It wasn’t what I had to do. It wasn’t what other people wanted me to do.”
Although his absence from President Trump’s inauguration was seen as uncharacteristic, he gave a high-profile speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last year.
By: BBC
