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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LOL
Like the blues song
Michelle’s belly’s in the kitchen but
her fat rear is still in the hall.
Ha. And simultaneously having to shave one.
And a very ugly girl at that.
“I feel as free now as I did when I was a kid”
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I believe Michelle is trying to tell us she that she’s free and unfettered …..
https://youtube.com/shorts/c8UEy0sH8nI?si=49B8J2sUK3wo3Su8
LOL! 😂
Must be real fun for her to spend all our money.
Very fake eyebrows! Wonder what else is fake.
I agree, but it seems folks on FR just can’t help themselves.
She won’t go away until we let her go away, and stop posting every time she makes another stupid, racist statement.
Like what the hags on the view have to say, each day.
Let them go.
“I feel as free now as I did when I was a kid’”
Excellent... now take up skydiving.😎
“I don’t see her drawing crowds.”
She draws flies.
Remember kids, we don’t deserve her as our President.
I think you are being paid to post Michelle Obama threads on FR. Stop it.
It’s a good thing that I haven’t eaten breakfast yet.
Wow, do her arms really reach all the way to her knees? Or was she walking a little hunched forward? I’ve seen that pic so many times but never really noticed the arm length.
“her hair in a flicky blow-dry”
It wasn’t that long ago that blacks were screaming at us about cultural appropriation. (But it’s always been OK for them.)
Do I hate that creature more than Hillary? Maybe.
Big Mike, the ugliest, America hating 1st lady impersonator ever in the White House and it still hates America and won’t STFU about it.
I though life was horrible as a black woman when she was a kid?🤔🤢
She must have switched back to boxers....
Scary, I thought Halloween was over.
Well, OK...
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