Posted on 11/01/2025 7:35:36 PM PDT by simpson96
Michelle Obama exercised her right to bare arms in the White House, but she wasn't the first to do so.
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Asked how she coped with the high level of criticism about her appearance back then, she tells PEOPLE, "I took it for what it was, pure hypocrisy." In the book she details the time when she was railed against in the media for wearing sleeveless dresses to events as first lady.
The dual standard, she says, was obvious. "I could pull up pictures of Jackie O in a second and see this fashion icon in sleeveless dresses as First Lady. So at a point you’re like, 'Oh, this is politics.'"
She continues, "'If you can’t beat them, make everybody scared of them.' That was the motto. If it wasn’t the clothes, it was 'that terrorist fist bump.' It was every word that we said. It was my husband’s tan suit."
The former first lady reveals she had a hand in helping pick the infamous tan suit that was deemed "unpresidential" when the former President wore it while on official business back in 2014.
"I loved that tan suit! When he had it on, I was like, 'Oh my God, you look so cute'," she says. "[Then] I was like, 'Oh, you got clocked for that one. Welcome to my world.' That was toward the end of his presidency, so we were used to all the crazy issues that people would take with us."
And she says she knows what their critics intended to do.
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On a normal woman, a sleeveless dress looks like a sleeveless dress. On Michelle, it looks more like what is currently called a “wife-beater”. In my old neighborhood, it was called a “Dago T”. Reactions may vary.
Nobody on MV wanted them there. People packed up and moved from MV.The Obamas are cursed, and not well liked.The artsy community of MV with charity and shared talents doesn’t blend with the Obamas I deserve the Best attitude.MV will never be the same after the Obamaego drop.
OMGosh naked arms.
At least no ankles were visible.
She has NO poise and she doesn’t walk, she lumbers!
this pic is my favorite, along with Hillary being manhandled into her van. Good times.
It’s fascinating how mooch can find something to complain about.
Poor little racist attention whore! Where was Big Mike during Trumps first term when not one picture of Melania was found unless it was where the all the left wing media and fashion magazines were trying to embarrass her? You can take the ape out of the jungle but never the jungle out of the ape.
Yes I well remember how the media were always piling on and railing away at Mooch…oh…wait…no I don’t…
My faves, as well.
M/O has NO poise...... and she doesn’t walk, she lumbers!
What outrage? Women’s magazines ooh-ed and ah-ed over her wonderful arms. Most people didn’t notice or care. Haters and morons just talked about her supposed d__k.
I remember seeing a pic of her at a very formal do ... and she had her elbows on the table while eating. Uuuugh.
It was SO embarassing, but I can’t say I was surprised!
Indeed proof money does not give one class.
.....a pic of M/O at a very formal do ... she had her elbows on the
table while eating. SO embarrassing, can’t say I was surprised.....
Ghetto types do that.
.....more proof money does not give one class.....
Proof positive.
Photo-shopped!
Can’t tell which one, but the two are duplicated: Arms, hands, clothes, posture.
I thought ABL was a meme. Just for me it seems.
The media can't let out the truth that it's the other way; that Melania ignores them.
Schrodinger's Feminist: A woman is simultaneously a Victim and Empowered until something happens. Then she chooses which state benefits her the most.
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