Former First Lady Michelle Obama took to Instagram on Tuesday to wish her youngest daughter Sasha happy birthday, and maybe also to quell persistent rumors that she and former President Barack Obama are getting a divorce.
“Happy birthday to my sweet girl, Sasha! Can’t believe how quickly time has flown. I’m so proud of the woman you’ve become. Love you always!” Obama wrote as a caption to a photo that showed the family ostensibly on vacation together, arm in arm with each other.
The foursome look happy, but on the other hand, husband and wife are not next to each other and each has an arm around one of their two daughters.
Divorce rumors began to grow rampant after she skipped several events that she normally attended with the former president.
What’s going on?
She didn’t attend the inauguration of President Donald Trump or the funeral of Jimmy Carter in January, and she even skipped her usual ringside seats with her husband at the NBA All Star Game in March.
More recently, they were seen out to dinner in D.C. last month and two weeks ago in New York City, which may have been an attempt to squelch the rumors that the couple may break up after 32 years of marriage.
She attempted to address the divorce rumors on the Diary of a CEO podcast last month, saying, ‘If I were having problems with my husband, everybody would know about it.”
But those who are good at parsing words noted that it wasn’t a plain denial, such as “No, we are not getting divorced.”
“It gets labeled” as “horrible”
Obama attributed the rumors to the fact that she made decisions for herself that didn’t always include doing what would reflect well on the couple.
“This couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right?” she continued. “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.”
She actually makes a good point here. Barack Obama said in April that he was “in a deep deficit with his wife” after leaving the White House.
Being president isn’t really conducive to spending couple time together, and neither is having literally the weight of the entire world on your shoulders.
That seems like it could do serious damage to a marriage, especially after a year of campaigning and eight years in office.
People speculate; it’s what they do. No one is really going to know what’s happening between the Obamas unless and until they actually do split up and decide to tell us about it.
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