Imagine how the media would cover a Republican First Lady who was retiring with a career resume similar to Michelle Obama.

Even better imagine a woman who has worked 40 years in a real career compared to Michelle Obama. Yet many women hold her up as their model and icon.

Michelle Obama Wants to Retire from Public Life – Take a Look at the Empire She’ll Leave Behind

Dawn Allcot

Sun, March 21, 2021, 10:00 AM

Former first lady Michelle Obama, wife of former president Barack Obama said she is “moving toward retirement,” in a Zoom interview with People magazine. The former first lady said she hopes to never “experience winter again,” spend more time with her husband, and tease him about “golfing too much because he’s got nothing else to do.”
( Compare this gush to the relentless negative articles about Melania and the Trumps move back to Florida.)

To prepare for endless summer days in warmer climes than the couple’s current homes in Washington, D.C. and Martha’s Vineyard, Obama told People she and Barack are “building the foundation for somebody else to continue the work so we can retire and be with each other.”

The couple is doing this through the Obama Foundation, a nonprofit with the mission to inspire, empower and connect people to change the world, according to the organization’s website.

Following the release of her November 2018 memoir “Becoming,” Obama has not rested. She is starring in a Netflix cooking show for children, Waffles + Mochi, that includes a cast of puppet characters and guest chefs to show children how to prepare healthy meals at home. She is also working with her husband overseeing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side.

(Fixing waffles must be truly exhausting work)

Heading into retirement she plans to choose projects carefully, as well as spend some time knitting and swimming, People reveals.

(The only job we know she had was a do nothing politically driven appointment at a Chicago hospital when Barack was a Senator.)

Michelle Obama holds an impressive set of titles: writer, advocacy icon, lawyer, and former first lady, to name a few. Together with her husband, Michelle Obama has a combined net worth of $70 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Obama has become a global icon for women’s rights and advocacy, catapulting herself into that role initially as first lady when her husband took office in 2009 and continuing her work even after he left office in 2017.

Her memoir, BECOMING, earned the couple a $65 million advance for that book, plus two other autobiographies about the presidential couple.

“Writing BECOMING has been a deeply personal experience,” Obama said via Twitter. “I talk about my roots and how a girl from the South Side found her voice. I hope my journey inspires readers to find the courage to become whoever they aspire to be.”

(The only reason anyone heard he r" voice " is because she is married to the first black President.)

This post was edited on 3/21/21 at 12:34 pm