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Michelle Obama opens up about accepting her body despite criticism from men
The Hill ^ | 2/13/2020 | Anagha Srikanth

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: globalacceptance; ithrewupinmymouth; michelle; michellecovergirl; michelleinterview; pulease
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To: simpson96; All

It baffles me as to how she ever had children. She is the Viagra anti-dote.


61 posted on 02/16/2020 3:50:19 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: simpson96

Has Oprah had her boobs enlarged????????????

Looks Michell’s penis is showing a little.


62 posted on 02/16/2020 3:50:31 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: mkleesma

The way most of the replies read, you’d think there was a shortage of evidence.


63 posted on 02/16/2020 3:50:38 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: dsc
Blah, blah, blah...the party is over Michelle. Give it five more years and we are talking Hindenburg.


64 posted on 02/16/2020 3:53:29 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: beethovenfan

“She is always bitching about something”.

The bitch bitches because that’s her nature. She’s a nasty piece of work.


65 posted on 02/16/2020 3:53:36 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
She's a lifelong public mooch and grifter; the fact that she's also ugly as a [redacted] isn't particularly important to me.

66 posted on 02/16/2020 3:55:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: simpson96

The size of her butt? How about the size of his package? And those linebacker sized biceps?


67 posted on 02/16/2020 3:57:17 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: simpson96

Maybe, just maybe, the current First Lady will one day have the beauty and poise of the previous one. We can only hope.


68 posted on 02/16/2020 3:59:12 PM PST by suthener
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To: rlmorel
Picture it. Oh, sorry about the keyboard. 🤣
69 posted on 02/16/2020 4:00:48 PM PST by Viking2002 (There's a little Al Bundy in all of us. And we vote.)
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To: RoseofTexas

While she does have a worse-than-bad Anti-American attitude-she’s not a dude-she’s just an ugly fatass broad like so many others you see waddling through Walmart in leggings or low-rise jeans with a muffintop-I’ve known some women who are tall and large framed like her-they do tend to get fat easier than those of who are small-most of the ones I’ve known eat healthy to avoid the fat and dress carefully to avoid that Sasquatch/masculine appearance the Mooch has-she should stick to a good diet-and have whoever chooses her clothes taken out back and shot...


70 posted on 02/16/2020 4:01:43 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys-you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

...so what is that bulge she keeps grabbing/rearranging?


71 posted on 02/16/2020 4:06:14 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: fwdude

viral photo ..not real...done by a freeper years ago at my request. I think it was Aphid.


72 posted on 02/16/2020 4:10:04 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: simpson96

Where’s Al Bundy when we need him?


73 posted on 02/16/2020 4:12:00 PM PST by Maceman (People who vote Democrat sell their lives (and ours) to the government and their souls to the Devil.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Standing next to Melania, Michelle looks fat. Standing next to Oprah, she looks normal.


74 posted on 02/16/2020 4:13:38 PM PST by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: simpson96

Well, she made it pretty clear she is un-American and she is angry. If she were a nice person who cared about the republic and didn’t harbor resentment and anger against this country, white people, and conservatives maybe that would help.

Oh, and it would help if she didn’t live like Cleopatra as first lady with entourages numbering more than NFL football teams traveling around the world spending millions of taxpayer dollars on vacations.

As far as the critical comments on her looks are concerned (which I grant are irrelevant), she should consider the considerably greater hateful treatment that Republican women receive at the hands of her liberal followers...and develop a thicker skin.


75 posted on 02/16/2020 4:14:49 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Old Yeller

Her idea of fitness is just doing curls with dumb bells, apparently-that is why her arms are the only fit looking thing about that heifer...

I do a physical job and I work out-so I have defined muscles-including biceps-but I’m on the small side-not fat-there are men who like a woman who is fit, especially if she is older...


76 posted on 02/16/2020 4:16:04 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys-you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: simpson96


↑ Click on the image above to see more...

77 posted on 02/16/2020 4:18:10 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: simpson96

She wears the strangest clothes. And they fit so weird.


78 posted on 02/16/2020 4:18:50 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: simpson96

You open yourself to criticism when you mow down at the Super Bowl and every other quasi-holiday while cajoling schools to spend money on gardens and cafeterias on lunch that goes in the garbage and eat Snickers bars instead. Sanctimonious twaddle opens you up for every kind of criticism.


79 posted on 02/16/2020 4:24:28 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Bon mots

Big Mike is packin’! SCHLONGED!!


80 posted on 02/16/2020 4:26:53 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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