{"id":36553,"date":"2025-04-09T22:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/im-making-decisions-for-myself-michelle-obama-clears-air-on-divorce-rumours"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:28:27","slug":"im-making-decisions-for-myself-michelle-obama-clears-air-on-divorce-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/im-making-decisions-for-myself-michelle-obama-clears-air-on-divorce-rumours","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m making decisions for myself \u2013 Michelle Obama clears air on divorce rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. <\/strong><\/span>Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has addressed divorce rumours circulating around her marriage to Barack. Michelle also claimed that it was time for her to start asking tough questions. According to her, women \u201cstruggle with disappointing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey couldn\u2019t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself, so they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing. That this couldn\u2019t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions herself,\u201d Michelle said on Sophia Bush\u2019s \u201cWork in Progress\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle further explained that she wanted to control how she spent her free time. \u201cWho do I want to have lunch with? How long do I want to stay in a place? Do I want to travel? If a girlfriend calls and says let\u2019s go here, I can say yes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle and Barack met in 1998 when the former American president took a job at a law firm in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Ethiopia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has addressed divorce rumours circulating around her marriage to Barack. Michelle also claimed that it was time for her to start asking tough questions. According to her, women \u201cstruggle with disappointing people.\u201d \u201cThey couldn\u2019t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself, so they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[235,2045],"class_list":["post-36553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-ethiopia","tag-michelle-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019m making decisions for myself \u2013 Michelle Obama clears air on divorce rumours - Ethiopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has addressed divorce rumours circulating around her marriage to Barack. 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