Michelle Obama is once again in the spotlight, following her latest complaint about her husband’s eating habits.
The former First Lady, who has achieved remarkable success as the spouse of the first African American President of the United States, continues to express her grievances despite her substantial media acclaim, wealth, and fame.
Her latest venture is to promote her new book, and the premise is quite intriguing.
With her latest release, ‘The Look’, Michelle Obama offers readers a glossy tribute to her own life, celebrating her striking beauty, effortless style, and personal grace.
However, some may question whether this portrayal includes the concept of dignity.
Much like Meghan Markle, another public figure known for voicing personal grievances, Michelle seems to have left dignity behind in her pursuit of self-expression.
We begin with her hour-long ABC special, ‘Michelle Obama: The Style, The Power, The Look’, in which she fielded softballs from Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, yet somehow managed to make the interview about racism.
Specifically, how racist America is — except for those two elections in which her husband was overwhelmingly and enthusiastically voted into office — and how she was forced to refrain from wearing her hair in braids.
Michelle Obama, with her enormous new coffee table tome ‘The Look’, has created a monument to herself: Her unbelievable beauty, her effortless style, her grace, her forbearance, her dignity
Somehow she has managed to make this about racism. Specifically, how racist America is (pictured: Michelle at her husband’s first inauguration in 2009)
‘America wasn’t ready,’ she said.
She has got to be kidding.
Of course, the New York Times is thrilled to advance this anti-America n narrative.
In a profile titled, ‘Michelle Obama on the Restrictive Beauty Standards of Being First Lady’ — published on Election Day last week, how subtle — writer Gina Cherelus notes that Michelle’s hair, ‘unlike that of the 54 first ladies before her, was kinky and curly in texture.’
Not so, Gina.
None other than Jacqueline Kennedy had hair that was so kinky and unruly, so difficult to tame and control, that she often wore wigs.
And Jackie never complained, not even when her husband was shot to death beside her, his brains and blood all over her.
Not once.
Moving on: Michelle told Gina, in a video interview, that ‘what I understood was that at some point I wanted to show up publicly with my hair fully as it comes out of my head. It was just a question of when. Braids are easier; they give me freedom.’
Although she showed up at the unveiling of her official White House portrait as a former first lady in 2022 wearing her hair in said braids, she did not choose to style her hair that way for the painting itself.
Instead, she wore her hair straight — as she did for the recent New York Times interview and for much of this media tour about how racist America pressured her into straightening her hair.
Make it make sense.
Again, much like Meghan, Michelle is a perpetual victim. She may be powerful, but nothing is ever really her decision or her fault.
In fact, the decision to straighten her hair for all these interviews and appearances, she said, was made by her team, who, per The Times, wanted to ‘try something new for this book release.’
Try something new? She looks exactly as she did all eight years in the White House!
Of course, The Times is happy to live in Michelle’s alternate reality, in which she is a radical feminist whose awesomeness cannot be contained — except when it can, by people who are paid and employed by her.
‘We’re going to play all through the promotion of this book — I’ll wear what you want,’ Michelle said. ‘I’m like their doll. But once it’s over, I’m back in my braids, child.’
This is such garbage. Such complete and shameless race-baiting.
Much like Meghan, Michelle is a perpetual victim. She may be powerful, but nothing is ever really her decision or her fault
Michelle’s new book is titled ‘The Look’
None other than Karine Jean-Pierre took to the lectern daily as the first black (and female and queer — never forget!) White House press secretary, and she wore her hair in its natural state — curls.
And guess what! No one said a thing about her hair.
Was that because everyone with two working brain cells was focused on what a moron she was, and how hapless she was at her job?
Of course! But nonetheless, her hair went unremarked upon — and not for nothing, but Karine is on her own press tour for her own new book, and guess how she’s wearing her hair? Straight!
Did racist America make her do that? The same racist America that handed her a fat, lucrative book deal?
The same racist America that gave Michelle and Barack a joint, record-breaking book deal — reportedly worth more than $60 million — upon leaving the White House? Plus a Netflix deal and podcasts for Michelle?
And, finally, this — a book for her to gaze, like Narcissus, upon her own visage, plastered across 304 pages?
Off Michelle went to Jamie Kern Lima’s podcast — an insufferable baby-voiced woman who has somehow injected herself into the cultural bloodstream — to groan about needing a professional team of hair, makeup and personal stylists to become the woman, the myth, the legend that is Michelle Obama.
The gall. The unmitigated, almost defiant tone-deafness. Weeks into a government shutdown, with thousands of poor Americans cut off from SNAP food benefits, and Michelle gripes about having her own personal glam quad as first lady.
‘I know having a glam team, a trifecta’ — she maddeningly calls her hairdresser, makeup artist and personal stylist her ‘trifecta’ — ‘it feels like a luxury, but it was a time necessity.’
‘Rare is the woman,’ she declared, ‘that can live off the rack.’
First of all, it’s ‘who’ — rare is the woman who.
Second: Wearing clothes ‘off the rack’ isn’t rare at all. It’s common.
But that is Michelle’s greatest fear, being seen as her true self: All too common indeed.
