Queens unite!
Michelle Obama is opening up to longtime pal Oprah Winfrey for ELLE‘s December 2018 cover about her relationship with husband Barack Obama, life after the White House, her upcoming memoir Becoming, and more.
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Giving readers a glimpse into hers and Barack’s life as a couple, the mom of two talked about learning to embrace vulnerability:
“I feel vulnerable all the time. And I had to learn how to express that to my husband, to tap into those parts of me that missed him—and the sadness that came from that—so that he could understand. It was an important part of my journey of becoming. Understanding how to become us.”
Bringing us deeper into their relationship, the former FLOTUS explains what led them to go into couples counseling:
“When you get married and have kids, your whole plan, once again, gets upended. Especially if you get married to somebody who has a career that swallows up everything, which is what politics is. Barack Obama taught me how to swerve. But his swerving sort of—you know, I’m flailing in the wind. And now I’ve got two kids, and I’m trying to hold everything down while he’s traveling back and forth from Washington or Springfield. He had this wonderful optimism about time. [Laughs] He thought there was way more of it than there really was. And he would fill it up constantly. He’s a plate spinner—plates on sticks, and it’s not exciting unless one’s about to fall. So there was work we had to do as a couple. Counseling we had to do to work through this stuff.”
She added:
“Well, you go because you think the counselor is going to help you make your case against the other person. ‘Would you tell him about himself?!’ And lo and behold, counseling wasn’t that at all. It was about me exploring my sense of happiness. What clicked in me was that I need support and I need some from him. But I needed to figure out how to build my life in a way that works for me.”
Preach!!
Also in her chat with Oprah, Michelle again calls out why she’ll never forgive Donald Trump for spreading lies that Barack wasn’t born in America:
“I want the country to take this in, in a way I didn’t say out loud, but I am saying now. It was reckless, it put my family in danger, and it wasn’t true. And he knew it wasn’t true.”
Plus, she shares an excerpt from her Oprah book club-approved memoir Becoming, all about her style strategy and the focus on her fashion over politics while in the White House:
“This stuff got me down, but I tried to reframe it as an opportunity to learn, to use what power I could find inside a situation I’d never have chosen for myself. If people flipped through a magazine primarily to see the clothes I was wearing, I hoped they’d also see the military spouse standing next to me or read what I had to say about children’s health.”
Can we elect Michelle please?!
Ch-ch-check out the stunning former FLOTUS (below):
[Image via OWN/YouTube.]
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