From left: Michelle and Barack Obama.Photo: Barack Obama/Twitter
Barack Obamais celebrating the birthday of his “love, partner, and best friend,“Michelle Obama, with a photo of the two taken on a balcony in what appears to be one of their favorite vacation spots: Hawaii.
“Happy birthday, Michelle,” the former president, 60, wrote in atweetMonday, along with a photo of the two in Hawaii earlier this month. “My love, my partner, my best friend…”
The former first lady turned 58 on Monday, and a host of big names spoke up in honor of her big day.
Current First Lady Dr.Jill Biden— a pal and collaborator since their time in the White House together —sent well wishesalong with a throwback photo of the pair.
From left: Michelle and Barack Obama.Mark Wilson/Getty
Mrs. Obama has been a vocal proponent of voting rights bills in recent months, recently writing an open letter about the need to protect the right to vote.
“From Georgia and Florida to Iowa and Texas, states passed laws designed to make it harder for Americans to vote. And in other state legislatures across the nation, lawmakers have attempted to do the same,” she wrote in the letter, which was published earlier this month as an ad inTheNew York Times.
Mrs. Obama also recentlyissued a call to actionthrough her organizationWhen We All Voteto protect voting rights and also set an ambitious goal: to register a million new voters across the country, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
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She has also managed to carve out time for fun this past year, also, and made an appearance in the recent premiere episode ofBlack-ish’s final season.
She appeared in the episode as an unexpected guest at a fundraising event that Bow convinces husband Dre (Anderson) to attend in hopes of making some new friends, even though he is “convinced there will be nothing but dud husbands there to befriend,” according to the episode description.
The Obamas spent part of the recent holiday season in Hawaii, continuing a decades-longfamily traditionof celebrating Christmas in the place where the former president grew up.
From left: Michelle and Barack Obama in 2019.Scott Olson/Getty
Inan interview last year, Mrs. Obama looked back at the long arc of her marriage.
“Before the White House, before the kids, before careers, it was just me and Barack together shaping our lives, building a friendship, being one another’s everything,” she told PEOPLE.
And “that’s what we were able to return to once the White House was over and the kids were grown and you knew they were okay,” she said.
“We came through the struggle together, which makes our foundation even more solid than it was,” the former first lady said then. She added: “I am happy to say that I can now look up from all of that and look over across the room and I still see my friend.”
source: people.com
