Posted on 11/17/2025 6:05:00 PM PST by simpson96
Michelle Obama may have left the White House eight years ago, but she has retained the allure of an international rock star. And so it is more than a little surreal to be speaking to her on Zoom — glossy and gorgeous in a stripy blue shirt from Gap, with a chunky silver necklace, her hair in a flicky blow-dry — about something she spent a very long time not talking about: fashion. Her new book, The Look — about her most renowned outfits and the stories behind them — is written in collaboration with her stylist, Meredith Koop. “What I wore was important … people looked forward to the outfits, and once I got their attention, they listened to what I had to say,” she writes in the book. “This is the soft power of fashion.” This idea that fashion is frivolous, she says to me now, is a tiresome misnomer. “It is a business — billions of dollars of business.” (snip)
“Society tends to diminish women when they hit this milestone, [but] I’m not going to disappear,” she writes in The Look of turning 60. She says she is less focused now on those famous “Michelle Obama arms” and more on feeling healthy — she has recently taken up yin yoga, for instance. “My philosophy is, let me control what I can, and be mindful of not just who I am in the world, but how I take care of my body.” The first lady in motion has not stopped, she tells me. “I feel as free now in this stage of my life as I did when I was a kid.”
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“but she has retained the allure of an international rock star.”
Only to the incredibly stupid.
What a Mare’s a$$......
Me, too.
That line “but she has retained the allure of an international rock star.’ started the acidy feeling in the back of my throat.
She must not be feeling well. There isn’t much bitching, pissing, moaning and whining in this piece.
Then GO!
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“And Marybelle, try to clean up the room after the hors-d’oeuvres right away this time. We’re coming back there after the greeting session.————
Oh, no, sorry, really, I didn’t recognize you, Michelle. Forgive me.”
“I’m not going to disappear”.
No, with a caboose deserving of its own zip code, I don’t think we can look forward to your disappearance, Moochelle.
Amassing many millions of dollars without lifting a finger can have that effect.
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Uh, oh, she’s back to hating America again. That “first and only time in my life” stuff didn’t last after Barack got sworn in.
Looks like the post racial era in America fizzled out.
This woman is flat out unattractive ... in spite of the groveling liberal media trying to portray her as otherwise.
You talk and act like one too.
61 my ass.
The media is keeping her in the public’s eye for a reason. I think she is going to run in 2028.
She felt free as a kid?
What happened to her narrative of being oppressed by whitey and afraid for her life?
What kind of drugs is this writer on?
Is she free enough to tell us what it feels like being a beard?
This dipshit should stick to spending her(?), millions.
She’s so repressed! 🤦♂️
This adulation is so over-the-top that I wonder how the writer isn’t embarrassed to write it.
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If Rush were still around he could play that satirical song of Bill Clinton singing Wakin’ Up Is So Hard to Do about Hillary, but update it to Barack opening his eyes to see this woman.
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