Former first woman Michelle Obama stated she is at a stage in her life the place she is totally free and her selections don’t revolve round her youngsters or her husband, for the primary time. “I imply, this stage in life for me, for me personally, is the primary time that I’ve been utterly free — the place each selection that I make in my life just isn’t about my husband, not about his profession, not about what my youngsters want or the place they’re going. It’s completely about me,” Michelle stated on her weekly podcast. Michelle’s comment was seen as a telling remark, although the divorce rumors have now taken a backseat as Michelle Obama has made it clear that her marriage had points about which she could be very open to speak, however they don’t seem to be parting methods. In her many on-line appearances, largely podcasts, Michelle stated her marriage was arduous typically however she wouldn’t commerce it as Barack Obama is the “my particular person” for her. “The great thing about my husband and our partnership is that neither one in every of us was ever actually, ever going to stop at it, as a result of that’s not who we’re. And I do know that about him. He is aware of that about me,” Michelle stated earlier. The rumors began after Michelle Obama was absent from main political occasions together with President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Michelle clarified that she didn’t wish to be the one that checks all the precise packing containers and needed to hearken to her coronary heart and didn’t wish to go. “My choice to skip the inauguration, what folks don’t understand, or my choice to make decisions firstly of this 12 months that suited me, have been met with such ridicule and criticism,” she stated. “Individuals couldn’t imagine that I used to be saying no for every other purpose, that they needed to assume that my marriage was falling aside, you understand.”The Obamas are teaming up with Larry David for a sketch comedy collection for HBO. Increased Floor, the manufacturing firm of the Obamas, would produce the yet-to-be-titled half-hour collection.