Michelle Obama, the wife of the former President of America, sparked divorce rumors after she failed to attend Jimmy Carter's funeral with Barack Obama.
The speculations of their alleged divorce intensified after Michelle Obama announced that she would not be present at President Donald Trump's second inauguration.
While addressing the divorce rumors during an appearance on Sophia Bush's Work in Progress podcast on Wednesday.
"The interesting thing is that, when I say 'no,' for the most part people are like, 'I get it, and I'm OK,'" she said.
"That's the thing that we as women, I think we struggle with disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year people couldn't even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing."
"This couldn't be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right?" she added. "But that's what society does to us. We start actually, finally going, 'What am I doing? Who am I doing this for?' And if it doesn't fit into the sort of stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative and horrible."
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