While speaking to People in an interview published on Tuesday, October 28, Michelle, 61, discussed how she feels about aging both physically and mentally. "I’m not wincing at my gray hairs, but I am coloring them! My mother [Marian Robinson] was the same way. She dyed her hair until the day she died," she said. "I don’t really do much else. Fortunately, black don’t crack."
"I’m as vibrant as I’ve ever been. My kids are grown and launched, they are healthy and happy. My husband is doing just fine," she continued. "We are the former president and first lady, and so I feel like this is the first time in my life that when I say and do something, here in this interview, writing this book, these are my choices. That is freeing."
"Braids allow me to get them done, and then that’s one less thing that I have to think about. When I’m out of the public eye, I am swimming, I am playing tennis and braids represent that kind of freedom for me," she said. "[In the White House] I wasn’t sure whether the country was ready for it. The Crown Act [which protects employees and students from race-based hair discrimination] hadn’t been passed yet, and just like fashion, I didn’t want my hair to become a distraction."
She then reflected on her decision to wear braids to her and Barack's portrait unveiling in 2022, saying that she "understood the significance" of the moment. "I wanted to send a message, add to the discourse of Black women in places of power, saying, 'This, too, is an appropriate and beautiful way to wear your hair,'" Michelle explained.
Michelle admitted it wasn't a "struggle" to dress the part because she "respected the position." She continued, "I took the role as first lady very seriously. I was a famous person, but I wasn’t a starlet. And so that meant that the clothes could never speak louder than anything I had to say."
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