Michelle Obama calls for choosing leaders who don’t diminish women

Former first woman Michelle Obama mentioned that “we should elect leaders” who don’t “rob” ladies of their “femininity,” a subject she writes about in her new e book “The Look.”

Throughout an unique interview with MS NOW’s Jonathan Capehart, the previous first woman mentioned two quotes from her e book – each centered on how ladies are seen by society – and what may be completed to forestall these issues from persevering with.

Capehart mentioned: ‘You write this: ‘If you end up a lady within the public eye, you might be typically diminished primarily to your bodily look.’ You additionally write: ‘If somebody needs to take one thing from a lady, he’ll attempt to rob her of her femininity, her magnificence.’ We at the moment have examples of this concentrating on feminine reporters.”

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Former First Woman Michelle Obama seems on MS NOW for an unique interview with Jonathan Capehart on Thursday, December 18, 2025. (Screenshot/MS NOW)

The host continued, asking Obama, “Why does this proceed to occur? What’s going to it take to disgrace folks and cease what you are describing there?’

“Look, we have to elect leaders who do not try this, you recognize?” she replied, drawing cheers from the viewers.

Whereas admitting that she “cannot get into the heads of people who find themselves merciless and imply,” Obama mentioned empathy tells her that this cruelty “comes from a spot of brokenness and insecurity,” and that “sooner or later in life, it is past restore.”

“The query we have now to ask ourselves is… why are we okay with it? You understand, individuals are who they’re. In order it stands, we’re right here as a result of we both did one thing silly or we did not do something,” she argued. “And we’re all responsible of it.”

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The previous first woman mentioned that “as ladies and as Black ladies and the boys that we’re with,” there must be a dialog to find out the place males’s loyalties lie in relation to the ladies of their lives.

“We’ve to suppose, ‘Are you with us? Are you with you? Are you going to vote to your finest curiosity? Are you going to vote for our greatest curiosity?'” she mentioned. “These are all conversations that I feel we have to have – inside ourselves first. That is why ‘The Look’ for me begins with us, proper? As a result of folks might be calling your identify.”

“As they are saying, ‘The way it impacts you begins with how we take into consideration ourselves,’” Obama added.

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Then-First Woman Michelle Obama speaks throughout a go to to a Latin grocery store in Tampa, Florida, on January 26, 2012. (Chris O’Meara/AP Picture)

When talking about how she personally handles her judgment within the public eye, Obama mentioned she needed to “cease it” as a result of she knew what some folks mentioned was not “the reality about how most individuals felt about me.”

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The previous first woman added that she “by no means wished my view of this nation to be clouded by just a few imply folks,” and mentioned she hopes the nation can come collectively to assist “younger ladies actually begin to be ok with each side of who they’re” with out having to fret about judgment.