Over the past few months, rumors have been swirling that Barack and Michelle Obama are heading for divorce. These claims allege that Barack and Michelle have been living “separate lives” for quite some time.
Now, Michelle is speaking out to admit what she “was wrong” about when it came to parenting with Barack as their divorce rumors continue to escalate.
Michelle Talks Parenting In The White House
Michelle, 61, and Barack, 63, have been married since 1992. They are parents to daughters Malia, 26, and Sasha, 23. On the latest episode of her IMO podcast, which she hosts with her older brother Craig Robinson, 64, Michelle admitted to a mistake that she feels like she made as a strict parent.
“Sometimes, I did overkill on the parenting of trying to be normal,” Michelle said. She added that she once punished Malia “for a whole semester,” which was a move that Barack questioned.
“It was too much, right?” Michelle asked her brother and their guests, soccer star Abby Wambach and her wife, author Glennon Doyle.
“That’s a lot,” Abby acknowledged. “Did she do something—like, did she murder a human?”
“No, she didn’t murder a human. She did teenage stuff,” Michelle replied. “But, you know, every time something happened and they’re teenagers in the White House, I’m thinking, ‘oh my God, this is a sign, they’re going to be on the street; they’re going to be addicts; and this is really going to mess them up.'”
Michelle went on to say that while she “put down the hammer,” it didn’t initially start out as a full semester.
“First, it was a month, and then I let her off, and then she didn’t make curfew or did something like that,” the former First Lady recalled.
Michelle went on to say that though she’d have “lectures” prepared, Malia always knew exactly what to say.
“She understood how to just look me in the eye and go, ‘You’re right, mom. I don’t know what got into me. You’re so right,'” Michelle recounted.
Michelle Admits She ‘Was Wrong’
Michelle eventually extended the punishment to a full semester because she felt like she was being “punked” by Malia.
“Barack, he’s trying to be the president but also trying to be a good parent, and he’s, like, ‘Yeah, whatever your mom says,’ although he’s looking at me, like, ‘A semester?!’ I was like, ‘I said a semester, and I cannot go back on it,'” she stated.
Later in the podcast, Michelle finally admitted that she “was wrong” for doing this.
“That was too long,” she confessed. “It didn’t work, it didn’t have the desired effect, but I was learning is my point.”
Michelle concluded by saying that she ultimately went easier on Sasha, who was “rarely on punishment” because she learned from her mistakes as a parent.
“The broader point is that sometimes our guilt, our issues, get in the way of our parenting,” Michelle said at the end of her rant.
Obama Divorce Rumors
This comes at a difficult time for Michelle. Indeed, rumors have been swirling for months that she’s divorcing Barack. These rumors escalated back in January, when Michelle skipped both the funeral of Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of Donald Trump. Indeed, she was the only living former First Lady to miss both of these events.
“I have been hearing this rumor that the Obamas are getting a divorce by reputable people,” political commentator Meghan McCain said on reporter Tara Palmeri’s podcast back in January. “I’m not talking about TMZ, I’m not talking about Perez Hilton, although I love him, he’s my friend.”
“I’m talking about like very serious journalists telling me that they’re hearing that the Obama divorce rumors are true,” she added.
“We’ve heard that for a long time,” replied Tara, who has long covered Washington politics. “Like I just heard that they live separate lives.”
Listen to Meghan and Tara talk more about this in the clip below.
Michelle has been attempting to deny the rumors that she’s divorcing Barack as of late. However, they have continued to spread. This is largely because Michelle often says negative things about Barack on her podcast.
Only time will tell if the Obama marriage is actually able to survive!
More About:Celebrity News