Over the past year rumors have been swirling that Barack and Michelle Obama are heading for divorce. According to these rumors, Barack and Michelle have been living “separate lives” for quite some time.
In a new interview, Michelle is admitting that she and Barack have been in “couples therapy.” This comes as their divorce rumors continue to spread like wildfire.
‘We’ve Been In Couples Therapy…’
Last week, Michelle, 62, appeared on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast. There, Michelle admitted that she’s a big “believer in therapy.”
“We’ve been in couples therapy,” Michelle said of herself and Barack, 64. “I believe in the practice of having those conversations with objective people who help you piece through that stuff, and it’s a constant, it’s constant work.”
Michelle went on to say that listeners shouldn’t be scared of therapy because “we are ever-growing, evolving [and] improving.”
The former First Lady then said that she learned early on in her marriage that she and Barack can’t change each other.
“I’ve grown to know I don’t have control over him, just like he doesn’t have control over me,” Michelle said. “So let me do my work and let him do our work and together we come together as whole people.”
Michelle also talked about how important it was for people to focus on self-improvement and “feeling good about [themselves].”
“Start working on your health,” Michelle advised. “Start feeling strong within yourself, start practicing self-esteem, start working on building your relationships and your friendships.
“Work on being as whole as you can be,” she said. “Because you can’t control who’s gonna love you, who’s gonna like you, who’s gonna give you a job, who’s gonna see you the way you wanna be seen, because everybody has their own stuff.”
Obama Divorce Rumors
This comes at a difficult time for the entire Obama family. Indeed, over the past year, they’ve been plagued by rampant rumors that Michelle and Barack are divorcing.
These divorce rumors escalated in a big way back in January of last year, when Michelle skipped both the funeral of Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of Donald Trump. She was the only living former First Lady to miss each of these events. This forced Barack to attend both events alone.
“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 earlier this year. “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 continued.
“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 Accused Of ‘Really Disliking’ Barack
Michelle launched her IMO podcast back in March. Since then, Michelle has used it to bash Barack and air his dirty laundry seemingly every chance she gets.
In fact, Michelle has complained about Barack so many times on her podcast that the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has claimed that the former First Lady “really dislikes her husband, and it’s super obvious.”
“I’m not just saying that to be catty,” Tucker explained. “I think I’m trying to feel compassion for her but her hostility toward the guy is unbelievable.”
Tucker’s fellow former Fox News host Megyn Kelly was quick to agree. She pointed out that “everything Michelle says about her husband is negative.”
“I almost never say negative things about Doug,” Megyn added, referring to her own husband Doug Brunt. “He’s not perfect but when I think about him, I don’t immediately go to whatever is negative. I go to what’s positive and what I love about him.”
Watch Tucker and Megyn talk more about this in the video below.
The Obamas Respond
Back in July, Barack appeared on Michelle’s IMO podcast. There, they desperately tried to shoot down the escalating divorce rumors.
“There hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I thought about quitting my man,” Michelle claimed. “And we’ve had some really hard times. So we had a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures, and I have become a better person because of the man I’m married to.”
“These are the kinds of things that I just miss, right?” Barack chimed in to add. “So I don’t even know this stuff’s going on. And then somebody will mention it to me and I’m all like, ‘what are you talking about?'”
Unfortunately for the Obamas, however, many are still not buying their claims that their marriage is still going strong.
Michelle’s latest comments about “couples therapy” will certainly do nothing to help her case that all is well in her marriage. Only time will tell if the Obama marriage will survive 2026!