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Michelle Obama Explains Her Rare Public Outings With Barack

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The former first lady said the public doesn’t need to know what the couple is up to every minute.

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
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Michelle Obama is pouring more cold water on rumors of trouble in her marriage to husband Barack. “The fact that people don’t see me going out on a date with my husband sparks rumors about the end of our marriage,” the former first lady told NPR’s Wild Card podcast on Thursday after commentators ran wild over her no-shows at President Donald Trump’s inauguration and Jimmy Carter’s funeral earlier this year. “So we don’t Instagram every second of our lives,” she said. “We’re 60, y’all. You just are not gonna know what we’re doing every minute of the day.” Obama, who is now hosting the podcast IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, further explained her decision not to attend those public gatherings as her trying to “define what I want to do, apart from what I’m supposed to do.” She has said in the past that if there truly were trouble in paradise in the Obama household, the public would know. The former president and first lady have been married 32 years.

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