Posted on 02/16/2020 3:05:38 PM PST by simpson96
Even Michelle Obama struggles to feel good about her body sometimes. In a recent discussion with Oprah Winfrey, the former first lady talked about fighting societal expectations as she gets older.
“We are so ridiculous as women,” she told Winfrey at the Brooklyn stop of Oprah's "2020 Vision" tour in partnership with Weight Watchers Reimagined, according to People. “We don’t want to talk about our age, and then we want to act like we should look like we did when we were 20, you know? When, I’m sorry, men you can look any kind of way. And it seems to be okay.”(snip)
As the first black first lady, Obama felt heavy scrutiny on the campaign trail and even in the White House. From her bare arms to her butt, every part of her image has been picked over publicly.
“People called me all kinds of things when I was campaigning for Barack, like it was a competition,” she said. “They called me un-American, and this stuff sticks with you. Men talked about the size of my butt. There are people who were telling me I was angry. That stuff hurts, and it makes you sort of wonder, what are people seeing? That stuff is there. And look, I’m a black woman in America. And you know, we’re not always made to feel beautiful. So there’s still that baggage that we carry, and not everyone can relate to that.”
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Men get ripped on all the time for their looks, and also their sexuality is called into question.
I reject her stupid misandrist premise.
That post made me spit my drink!
Wait until she hears about all of us that know she is a dude!
Is she now permanently done being proud of America now that her husband isn't president?
There are people who were telling me I was angry.
If you have to be told you weren't listening to your own voice.
HAH! THAT’S why Dophra hangs around with Mitchelle, she makes her feel absolutely THIN!
Those two are a crowd, for sure
That blue outfit is hideous.
(”Well, it’s being worn by a guy, so....”)
She’s pure ugly. I have no idea how she looks physically. Never could get past the ugly.
IN YOUR FACE, America!
Her Butt?
“...They called me un-American...”
Why???
Because you say things like, “All this for a damn flag...”
That’s a pretty good reason...
Perhaps she should have been on the prison-ration diet that she put public school students on.
Who says only men criticize her figure. Plenty of women criticize her!
Angry?
She is vicious, racist, white-people hating, Anti-American THING with bigger trapezoids than I have seen on any man.
spits
To be a beautiful woman, one must first be a beautiful woman inside.
“So there’s still that baggage that we carry...”
Around here, that baggage you carry is called junk in the trunk-aka a fat ass-and it doesn’t have anything to do with age-it happens when you stuff yourself with food all the time-none of your designer sofa cover dresses can hide it...
I was going to say “ no pictures, please”, but I was too late.
She’s a fat, bitter, ugly cow.
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