Over the past few months, 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.
Now, Michelle is speaking out to offer what she claims are her secrets to staying youthful at 61. This comes as these divorce rumors continue to spread like wildfire.
Michelle’s Secrets To Staying Youthful
In a new interview, Michelle is alleging that she loves being in her 60s.
“I tell people, ‘The sixties? Oh, a wonderful time. It’s a wonderful time,'” Michelle told People Magazine. “I feel like this is the first time in my life that when I say and do something, here in this interview, writing this book, rolling it out in this way, these are my choices.”
As for how she’s slowing down the aging process, Michelle confessed, “I’m coloring that gray hair. I’m not wincing [when I see one] but I’m not leaving it there long.”
This beauty secret was actually passed down to Michelle from her late mother Marian Robinson, who died last year at the age of 86.
“My mother was the same way,” Michelle explained. “My mother dyed her hair until the day she died. She had a beautiful sandy color blonde that mixed in well with the gray. I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to be doing that too.'”
As for the rest of her body, Michelle would like to let herself age naturally.
“That’s just the thing, I really don’t do much else,” Michelle alleged. “I think, fortunately, Black don’t crack, so I’m doing all right. But yeah, I will be dying my hair until there is no dye in the land.”
‘This Is The First Time In My Life…’
Though she’s being plagued by rumors that her 33-year marriage is crumbling, Michelle claims to feel freer than ever.
“This is the first time in my life when every decision I make is for me,” Michelle gushed. “As mothers, as women, as wives, a lot of times we spend our lives making decisions, [like] ‘Well, I’m doing this because of my kids, and I changed my job to accommodate my this,’ or ‘I’m supporting my husband in that.’ And, ‘No, I’m not going to take this job,’ or, ‘I’m not going to try this thing.'”
“Now my kids [Malia, 27, and Sasha, 24] are grown, they are launched. They are healthy and happy. My husband is doing just fine,” Michelle concluded. “We are the former president and first lady. It’ll be 10 years, almost, that we have not been in that job. Okay? We are formers.” All of that, she says, “is freeing.”
Obama Divorce Rumors
Michelle can claim that she’s loving life all that she wants to. However, that won’t stop the Obama divorce rumors from continuing to spread.
These divorce rumors escalated in a big way back in January, 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, 64, 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 recently 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 feeling youthful and “free” will certainly do nothing to help her case that all is well in her marriage. Only time will tell if the Obamas actually end up staying together!