{"id":2749,"date":"2025-04-10T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2025-04-10T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:40:07","slug":"michelle-obama-sets-the-record-straight-on-divorce-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=2749","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama sets the record straight on divorce rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"150\"><strong data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"150\">Michelle Obama Shuts Down Divorce Rumors, Speaks on Women\u2019s Struggles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"328\">Rumors about Barack and Michelle Obama&#8217;s marriage have been circulating, but Michelle addressed them directly during her appearance on Sophia Bush\u2019s <em data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"319\">Work in Progress<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"478\">About nine minutes in, the former First Lady opened up about life as an &#8220;empty nester&#8221; now that daughters Malia (26) and Sasha (23) have moved out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"655\">\u201c[Life] is whatever I want\u2026 It\u2019s the first time in my life all of my choices are for me,\u201d she said, reflecting on her newfound freedom after years of putting her family first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"657\" data-end=\"841\">Michelle spoke candidly about how women often struggle to prioritize themselves. Saying \u201cno,\u201d she noted, can trigger judgment and speculation \u2014 including rumors of a split from Barack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"843\" data-end=\"976\">\u201cSo much so, that this year\u2026 people couldn\u2019t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself\u2014they had to assume we were divorcing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"978\" data-end=\"1125\">The rumors intensified after she missed key events like President Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral and Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration, both attended by Barack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1317\">Further gossip linked the speculation to a <em data-start=\"1170\" data-end=\"1187\">In Touch Weekly<\/em> story claiming Jennifer Aniston was pursuing Barack\u2014claims Aniston firmly denied: \u201cI\u2019ve met [Barack] once. I know Michelle more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama Shuts Down Divorce Rumors, Speaks on Women\u2019s Struggles Rumors about Barack and Michelle Obama&#8217;s marriage have been circulating, but Michelle addressed them directly during her appearance on Sophia Bush\u2019s Work in Progress podcast. About nine minutes in, the former First Lady opened up about life as an &#8220;empty nester&#8221; now that daughters Malia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=2749\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Michelle Obama sets the record straight on divorce rumors&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}