When Michelle Obama first set foot in the White House, it wasn’t a demure step. It was a surefooted move in an already accomplished career.
The Harvard Law School graduate (she met her husband Barack at the Chicago law firm where they worked), humanitarian, mother of two and style maven seemed to stand side-by-side with her husband, the US President. To hold her own.
He described her as his “rock”. Throughout their 20-year marriage she would question him on things like why, when they both had careers, it was expected that she would have to pick up sick kids from school. They spoke publicly about their relationship – that it was one of teamwork, and grunt work.
Listen to Mia Freedman and Kate De Brito weighing in on the woman that could fill Michelle Obama’s shoes:
Michelle was the kind of First Lady that could one minute be Tweeting, or dancing with Ellen and the next spearheading major initiatives in the humanitarian space: from fighting obesity to throwing weight behind service members, higher education, and international adolescent girls’ education.
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So it’s with interest that I watch Melania Trump.
The 46-year-old Slovakian former bikini model is, like Michelle, an enigma. Just one of a different kind. She very rarely speaks publicly. Her Instagram has ground to a halt since Donald has been on the campaign trail. And the one time she’s spoken at a campaign event, it was short, scripted, and she was shortly shuffled off.
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Look I'm a feminist and I don't have much time for trump and his trophy wife, but I would say this, what the spouse does should be to some degree irrelevant. If they are a career person or a stay at home person shouldn't really matter as long as the president is on the ball, because the president is who I'm voting for, not the spouse. Admittedly of the spouse held some terrible views, eg they were a nazi or something I would think that reflects on the president because you would have to wonder why they stay married to such a person, so yes the spouses opinions to some degree is important, but in general what they divots not that relevant to me. In theory very nice that Michelle Obama was so accomplished but in practice as First Lady she was still playing second fiddle to him, it wouldn't really matter if she was the smartest person in the world because he has advisors for that, and she doesn't have a portfolio.
Melania is from Slovenia. She is not Slovakian.