Michelle Obama Opens Up About Skipping Trump’s Inauguration

Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama Finally talked about jumping Donald TrumpInauguration of 2025 and the chaos that followed.

During a new episode of Podcast, the native of Chicago and mother of two said that her choice to skip some of the country’s largest events at the start of the year was to protect her well-being.

Michelle Obama’s statements came for weeks after the 61 -year -old woman approached rumors that she and her husband, the former potus Barack Obamawere faced with problems in their marriage.

While speaking with his brother, Craig Robinson, on the last episode of her Podcast “IMO”, Michelle spoke of the criticism she met after decided to jump the inauguration of Trump after her victory in the 2024 presidential election.

“My decision to skip the inauguration – or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me – met such a ridiculous and a criticism”, she said. “People could not believe that I said no for any other reason, that they should assume that my marriage collapsed.”

Michelle continued saying that in this stage of her life, her goal is intention with what she gives her energy.

“I’m really here trying to own my life and intentionally training to make the choice that suited me,” she added. “And it took everything in my power not to do what” was right “, or was perceived as just, but do the things that suited me.”

Elsewhere, during the episode of the most recent Podcast in Michelle, the author “becoming” admitted that deciding to jump the ceremony was not easy. In fact, she had to “be wrong” to go.

“It started by having nothing to wear,” she said. “Because I am always prepared for the funeral, anything – I walk with the right dress, I travel with clothes in case something comes off. So, I said to myself, if I will not do this thing, I must say to my team, I don’t even want to have a ready dress.”

As she continued, Michelle, who married Barack in 1992, shared that she was in a place very different from her life today that she was when she was in the White House.

According to her, she chooses to “define my life according to my conditions for the first time”.

She continued: “Like what happened these eight years that we were in the White House? What did it say internally, my soul? ”

“We have succeeded,” she said. “We came out alive. I hope we made the country proud. My daughters, thank God, are whole. But what happened to me?”

Michelle continued to say that she has spent the last years working on herself thanks to therapy, which has challenged her to confront difficult truths.

“Passing through therapy is to make me look at the fact that maybe, finally, I’m pretty good,” she said. “Then, try to actively practice something different to reclaim these neurons in my head which make me continue to push and strive. And practice” no “in a very differently different way.”

During a previous interview, Michelle Obama reflected the rumors that have been circulating on her marriage since she jumped the inauguration.

While appearing on the Podcast Radio Iheart de Sophia Bush “Work in Progress”, the Harvard graduate addressed disappointing people who could have certain expectations of you.

“This is the thing with which we, women, are hard, disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year, people could not even understand that I was making a choice for me,” she said.

“It couldn’t be an adult woman who takes a set of decisions herself, right? But that’s what society does,” said Michelle.

She also helped to be able to make different choices in her life now than her daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, are adults.

“This is the first time in my life, all my choices have been for me,” she told Bush. “I think that if I am honest with myself, I could have made a lot of these decisions years ago. But I did not give myself this freedom.”