Barack Obama says marriage with Michelle Obama had ‘deep deficit’

Barack Obama has made a vulnerable and honest admission about his marriage to Michelle Obama amid much speculation.

In an address to Hamilton College this week, the former US president was asked by the university’s President Steven Tepper what he had been up to recently.

The 63-year-old shared that he had been mostly working on finishing his memoir, which he quipped was “like 50 term papers. I mean, it just goes on forever,” he said, as per the Daily Beast.

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But he soon became very candid as he admitted, ”Beyond that, look, I was in a deep deficit with my wife. So I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things.”

The Obamas, who have been married since 1992, have been consumed by rumours of divorce, especially after the former president was seen recently attending both the late President Jimmy Carter’s funeral and President Donald Trump’s inauguration alone.

Michelle also recently addressed the rumours and how she deals with them as a public persona.

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At the South By South West festival in Austin, Texas three weeks ago, the mother of two hosted a live taping of her new podcast IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, having paired up with her older brother for the new venture.

She told the crowd, ”People always ask me and Barack, how did we stay hopeful in, not just the eight years that we were in the White House, but beyond?

“Because, let me tell you, there was a lot of negative energy flipping our way – a lot of rumours, a lot of gossip, a lot of, you know, my husband wasn’t born in this country … we weren’t patriotic, he didn’t get into Harvard.”

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She shared what worked for her, saying “What kept us sane – and we tried to instill this in our daughters – is, you cannot live through social media,” she explained.

“I don’t think I have ever once looked at a comment section, period.”

Michelle added a pointed message: “Don’t let that negative energy enter into your space. These are people who don’t know you. A lot of this stuff is made up, and it does not feed you.”

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