Former first lady Michelle Obama took to social media on Monday to share a warm and heartfelt birthday message to her husband, former President Barack Obama.
The former first couple tied the knot in 1992 and share two daughters: Malia, 27, and Sasha, 24. Monday marked Barack’s 64th birthday.
“Happy birthday to my love, my best friend, my everything! @BarackObama, even after all these years, you’re still the coolest guy I know,” Michelle, 61, posted on Instagram alongside of them hugging and smiling for the camera.
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“Love you, Miche! And thanks everybody for all the birthday wishes,” Barack responded.
Barack and Michelle have been going strong despite the divorce rumors that swirled over the last few months. As previously reported by Face2Face Africa, the couple addressed those rumors and even touched on whether there was an element of truth to it.
The divorce rumors swirled after the former first couple were not spotted together at some public events. Michelle was the usual absentee, and one of the notable events where Barack attended without his wife was President Donald Trump’s January inauguration.
“She took me back!” the former president jokingly said during an appearance on IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson podcast, CNN reported. “It was touch and go for a while.”
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“It’s so nice to have you both in the same room together,” Michelle’s brother Robinson told the couple, and the former first lady replied, “I know because when we aren’t, folks think we’re divorced.”
Robinson also touched on an encounter with a woman at an airport, saying that she brought up the divorce rumors and asked him, “‘What did he do?’”
“These are the kinds of things that I just miss,” said Barack. “So I don’t even know this stuff’s going on and then somebody will mention it to me and I’m like what are you talking about?”
Michelle then said that though they’ve had their ups and downs, there “hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I’ve thought about quitting on my man.”
She added: “And we’ve had some really hard times and we’ve had a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures and I have become a better person because of the man I’m married to.”
During a previous episode of her podcast, Michelle Obama touched on why she skipped Trump’s inauguration and the rumors about their marriage being on the rocks.
“My decision to skip the inauguration, what people don’t realize — or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me were met with such ridicule and criticism,” she stated. “People couldn’t believe that I was saying no for any other reason that they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart.”
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