Michelle Obama and Eric Holder's wife bonded over being 'reluctant spouses' to famous men

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As erstwhile archetypal lady Michelle Obama tells it, it’s not casual being joined to a celebrated man, describing radical "spilling water" connected her portion trying to scope her husband.

Both Obama and her guest, OB-GYN Dr. Sharon Malone, who joined the podcast that Obama co-hosts with her brother, "IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson," discussed the challenges of being joined to celebrated men connected Wednesday. 

Malone’s hubby is erstwhile Attorney General Eric Holder, who was the 82nd lawyer wide of the United States from 2009 to 2015 nether erstwhile President Barack Obama.

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama said it’s not casual being joined to a celebrated antheral during the latest occurrence of her podcast. ( (Photo by Jean Catuffe/GC Images) AP)

Michelle Obama recounted the archetypal clip she met Malone during an event. 

"They enactment america unneurotic due to the fact that we were some reluctant spouses attending 1 of these immense dinners," Obama said. "And what, wherever were they… was Barack a U.S. senator?"

"Yes, helium was a legislator due to the fact that you, you were inactive surviving successful Chicago and Eric was successful backstage practice," Malone said. "So it was conscionable it was precise aboriginal days." 

Michelle Obama said the acquisition was overwhelming. 

"There was a enactment of radical waiting to shingle hands with our respective husbands," she said. "You know, people, like, reaching implicit our heads and spilling h2o connected us, trying to get to these two, you know, illustrious men." 

Obama said that she saw Malone crossed the array and felt a kindred spirit, saying, "She had the aforesaid look connected her look arsenic I did, like, ‘Here we go.’"

She added that they exchanged a look that said, "You spot this? Like, this is crazy, isn't it, girl?" They soon became friends.

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama says, "So galore men person nary thought astir what women spell through," erstwhile it comes to reproductive rights.  (Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Obama besides spoke astir "the combat to support women's reproductive health" beyond abortion.

"Sadly, it has been reduced to ‘choice,’" Obama said. "The question of ‘choice.’ And it's arsenic if that's each of what women's wellness is. That's the lone thing. And arsenic I attempted to marque the statement connected the run trail, this past election, was that there's conscionable truthful overmuch much astatine stake." 

She besides called retired men for not knowing capable astir women’s reproductive health

"So galore men person nary thought astir what women spell through, right," Obama said. "We haven't been researched. We haven't been considered. And it inactive affects the mode a batch of antheral lawmakers, a batch of antheral politicians, a batch of antheral spiritual leaders, deliberation astir the contented of choice, arsenic if it's conscionable astir the fetus, the baby, but women's reproductive wellness is astir our life."

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Michelle Obama besides called retired men for not knowing capable astir women’s reproductive health. ((Photo by Jean Catuffe/GC Images))

"This full analyzable reproductive strategy that does - the slightest of what it does is nutrient life," Obama said. "It's a precise important happening that it does. But you lone nutrient beingness if the instrumentality that's producing it … is functioning successful a healthy, streamlined benignant of way. But determination is nary treatment oregon evident transportation betwixt the two."

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