Barack Obama Shared His Birthday Message To Michelle And Said She Is His Star

Jan 17, 2020 by apost team

The former president used his Twitter account to share some photobooth style black and white pictures of himself and his wife and send some special birthday wishes to Michelle. The caption reads: "In every scene, you are my star"!

Michelle turned 56 this Friday and while it may not have been a big milestone birthday, it surely was a special day for her anyway. The pictures Barack Obama shared at least make it seem so. The two of them can be seen goofing off in a very photobooth style manner: Michelle pulling faces and Barack throwing up a peace sign in one of them. The couple certainly seem to have been in high spirits!

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The Obamas were married in 1992 and have two beautiful daughters together. However, many people don't know that in the beginning, Michelle harbored some doubts about her then-boyfriend. Signifcant doubts, in fact, as the Washington Post reported:

"He sounded too good to be true," she told David Mendell, author of "Obama: From Promise to Power." "I had dated a lot of brothers who had this kind of reputation coming in, so I figured he was one of these smooth brothers who could talk straight and impress people. So we had lunch, and he had this bad sport jacket and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and I thought: 'Oh, here you go. Here's this good-looking, smooth-talking guy. I've been down this road before.' "

Her doubts where made even stronger by the fact that the two of them worked for the same company back then. And an office romance was not what Michelle wanted.

Incredibly enough, Barack offered to quit his job for her, and she finally agreed to a date! As of this year, they will have been married 28 years and their relationship is still going strong, as this tweet shows. Michelle has now spent exactly half of her life married to her husband. 

A happy birthday to Michelle Obama and best wishes to her, her husband and her family!