Don't know if that's true, but one wouldn't be surprised the US MSM completely covering for her and Barry
The way the deep-state and its controlled media in 2009 worked in unison and with overwhelming force to turn her image from an angry, indifferent, frumpy, poorly-dressed, Obama liability into a wise, fashion-icon and popular glamour queen was a masterclass in state-run propaganda.
Goebbels would have been deeply impressed.
They're still running the program to this day, albeit at a reduced volume.
Doesn't appear that the subject -- Michelle Obama -- is cooperating with the project these days. The Obama's may end up rotating between their mansions and various vacations without ever occupying the same space, together. Like the Clinton's but more "global."