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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When was she criticized for wearing sleeveless dresses? I remember the media, and nearly everybody else gushing about “those toned arms”.
She is a liar.
Jackie Kennedy’s arms were feminine, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama has always been a hell of a guy.............Michelle has always had more muscles then brakey....
“Asked how she coped with the high level of criticism about her appearance back then,”
What a load of excrement. The DNC media whore slobbered over that woman trying to convince us whe was the most elegant and beautiful woman to have ever existed. She had a staff of dozens and spent millions just trying to look presentable but she is an ugly person in every way imaginable.
Big Mike has testosterone issues.
The right to bare arms is often practiced by those who should not.
She had class, I don’t think anyone can deny that.
Thanks for the link!
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