In an attempt to shut down divorce rumours, former US First Lady Michelle Obama has revealed why she and her husband, Barack Obama, don’t make public appearances together anymore. On Thursday, the 61-year-old appeared on NPR’s Wild Card podcast with Rachel Martin, where she said that she is not photographed alongside her husband, former US President Barack Obama, because of their age. During the podcast appearance, she joked that the couple doesn’t document their relationship on social media because they are “too old” for Instagram.
“The fact that people don’t see me going out on a date with my husband sparks rumours of the end of our marriage. It’s like, ‘OK, so we don’t Instagram every minute of our lives. We are 60. We’re 60, y’all,” Michelle Obama said, according to The Independent. “You just are not gonna know what we’re doing every minute of the day,” she added.
The couple first sparked divorce rumours when the former first lady did not attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral and President Donald Trump’s inauguration back in January. Back then, she defended her decision to skip the events, saying, “One of the major decisions I made this year was to stay put and not attend funerals and inaugurations and all the things that I’m supposed to attend.”That was a part of me using my ambition to say, ‘Let me define what I want to do, apart from what I’m supposed to do, what the world expects of me.’ And I have to own that. Those are my choices,” she said, per The Independent. “Whatever the backlash was, I had to sit in it and own it. But I didn’t regret it, you know? It’s my life now, and I can say that, now,”
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