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former president Barack Obama assured his wife Michelle Obamashe was celebrated with great fanfare on her 61st birthday.
“Happy birthday to the love of my life, @MichelleObama,” Barack, 63, wrote via a tweet X on Friday, January 17. “You fill any room with warmth, wisdom, humor and grace – and you look good doing it. I am so lucky to be on the adventure of a lifetime with you. I love you!”
Barack also uploaded a picture of the couple holding hands across the table at a private dinner.
Michelle for her part, forwarded her husband’s letter captioned: “I love you baby!”
When Michelle Obama met Barack Obama in 1989 at the Chicago law firm where they both worked, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight — even though he was quite popular in the office. “In my experience, you put a suit on any semi-intelligent black person and the white people tended to go crazy,” Michelle (…)
Barack and Michelle have been married since 1992 after meeting a decade earlier during their early legal careers in Chicago. They went to the welcome daughters Malia and Sasha in 1998 and 2001, respectively. (Sasha completed the family seven years before Barack was elected President of the United States for his first of two consecutive terms.)
During Barack’s political career, fans often praised his seemingly perfect marriage.
Happy birthday to the love of my life, @MichelleObama. You fill any room with warmth, wisdom, humor and grace – and look good doing it. I am so lucky to be on the adventure of a lifetime with you. i love you! pic.twitter.com/WTrvxlNVa4
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 17, 2025
“I don’t want people to look at me and Barack as a hashtag couple of goals and not know that no, no, even in the best marriage, some dysfunctional things happen,” Michelle said during an episode of the show. “On Purpose With Jay Shetty” podcast. in January 2024. “After 31 years, yes, we’re still doing it (over the line), but you know it faster. And then you apologize. You’ll learn to say my bad, won’t you? That takes a second, doesn’t it?”
She added: “I talk about marriage because I just think the No. 1 thing most people don’t talk about. What happens is that by not knowing it, you hit some natural, sort of understandable rough patches in your relationship and you want to end it. And it’s like, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It’s not worth it. That’s just the nature of things.’ So I joked, it’s like, ‘Oh, you’re mad at your partner, you’re mad for a year and you think the marriage is over.'”
Michelle Obama has opened up about why her marriage to Barack Obama isn’t always a ‘go-to couple’ despite fans praising their romance. “I don’t want people to look at me and Barack as a hashtag couple and not know that no, no, even in the best marriages, some dysfunctional things happen,” said Michelle (59) (…)
For Michelle, she and Barack were able to “learn” from their hardships instead of giving up.
“Obviously it’s going to be hard, you know, but I wouldn’t trade my marriage for anything in the world with all the ups and downs, with all the women running for president,” Michelle added at the time. “And if we didn’t hang in there, we’d miss out on everything good.
The Obamas are now empty nesters as both Malia, 26, and Sasha, 23, have each graduated from college and she moved out of the family home. The sisters are still roommates and often invite their parents over for drinks.
“We wanted to take them out for dinner and they said, ‘Why don’t you come over for cocktails?'” Michelle recalled. Today show in 2022. “We were like, ‘OK, we’ll see how it goes.’ Well, (for one thing), the martinis were a little weak. I don’t think they really knew what it was.”
