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Yahoo
35 minutes ago
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Michelle Obama facing backlash over claim about women's reproductive health
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is facing backlash after saying that creating life is "the least" of what a woman's reproductive system does. On the latest episode of the podcast "IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson," the former first lady and her brother were joined by OB/GYN Dr. Sharon Malone, whose husband, Eric Holder, served as Attorney General under former President Barack Obama. During the discussion, the former first lady lamented that women's reproductive health "has been reduced to the question of choice." "I attempted to make the argument on the campaign trail this past election was that there's just so much more at stake and because so many men have no idea about what women go through," Obama said. She went on to claim that the lack of research on women's health shapes male leaders' perceptions of the issue of abortion. Michelle Obama And Eric Holder's Wife Bonded Over Being 'Reluctant Spouses' To Famous Men "Women's reproductive health is about our life. It's about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life," Obama added, "It's a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that's producing it — if you want to whittle us down to a machine — is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way." In the same episode, the former first lady seemed to scold Republican men by saying that the men who "sit on their hands" over abortion are choosing to "trade out women's health for a tax break or whatever it is." Obama also criticized Republican women, suggesting they voted for President Donald Trump because of their husbands. Read On The Fox News App "There are a lot of men who have big chairs at their tables, there are a lot of women who vote the way their man is going to vote, it happened in this election." Michelle Obama Urges Parents Not To Try To Be Friends With Their Children The "Becoming" author's remarks drew criticism from pro-life activists, including Danielle D'Souza Gill, the wife of Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas. The couple announced the birth of their second child earlier in May. "Motherhood is the most beautiful and powerful gift God gave women. Creating life isn't a side effect, it's a miracle. Don't let the Left cheapen it," D'Souza Gill wrote in a post on X. Isabel Brown, a content creator and author, also slammed the former first lady as a "supposed feminist icon." "I am SO sick [and] tired of celebrities [and] elitists attempting to convince you that your miraculous superpower ability to GROW LIFE from nothing is somehow demeaning [and] 'lesser than' for women," Brown wrote. At the time of this writing, Obama's podcast is ranked 51 on Apple Podcasts and doesn't appear on the list of the top 100 podcasts on Spotify. However, it is ranked 91 on the list of 100 trending podcasts on Spotify. The entire episode with Malone is available on YouTube, where it currently has just under 41,150 views so article source: Michelle Obama facing backlash over claim about women's reproductive health
Fox News
3 hours ago
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- Fox News
Michelle Obama facing backlash over claim about women's reproductive health
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is facing backlash after saying that creating life is "the least" of what a woman's reproductive system does. On the latest episode of the podcast "IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson," the former first lady and her brother were joined by OB/GYN Dr. Sharon Malone, whose husband, Eric Holder, served as Attorney General under former President Barack Obama. During the discussion, the former first lady lamented that women's reproductive health "has been reduced to the question of choice." "I attempted to make the argument on the campaign trail this past election was that there's just so much more at stake and because so many men have no idea about what women go through," Obama said. She went on to claim that the lack of research on women's health shapes male leaders' perceptions of the issue of abortion. "Women's reproductive health is about our life. It's about this whole complicated reproductive system that the least of what it does is produce life," Obama added, "It's a very important thing that it does, but you only produce life if the machine that's producing it — if you want to whittle us down to a machine — is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way." In the same episode, the former first lady seemed to scold Republican men by saying that the men who "sit on their hands" over abortion are choosing to "trade out women's health for a tax break or whatever it is." Obama also criticized Republican women, suggesting they voted for President Donald Trump because of their husbands. "There are a lot of men who have big chairs at their tables, there are a lot of women who vote the way their man is going to vote, it happened in this election." The "Becoming" author's remarks drew criticism from pro-life activists, including Danielle D'Souza Gill, the wife of Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas. The couple announced the birth of their second child earlier in May. "Motherhood is the most beautiful and powerful gift God gave women. Creating life isn't a side effect, it's a miracle. Don't let the Left cheapen it," D'Souza Gill wrote in a post on X. Isabel Brown, a content creator and author, also slammed the former first lady as a "supposed feminist icon." "I am SO sick [and] tired of celebrities [and] elitists attempting to convince you that your miraculous superpower ability to GROW LIFE from nothing is somehow demeaning [and] 'lesser than' for women," Brown wrote. At the time of this writing, Obama's podcast is ranked 51 on Apple Podcasts and doesn't appear on the list of the top 100 podcasts on Spotify. However, it is ranked 91 on the list of 100 trending podcasts on Spotify. The entire episode with Malone is available on YouTube, where it currently has just under 41,150 views so far.
National Post
a day ago
- Entertainment
- National Post
Cook This: 3 recipes for sharing from Family Style, including crispy devilled tea eggs
Our cookbook of the week is Family Style by fashion designer Peter Som. Article content Fashion and food may seem a world apart, but for designer and cookbook author Peter Som, they're connected. A great-looking sweater might catch your eye as you scroll, but appearance isn't everything. There's also how it fits and feels. Likewise, we eat with our eyes first, yet a dish has to have substance, following up its looks with flavour and texture. Though the fundamentals and technicalities differ, Som's creative approach to both is similar. Article content 'Whenever I design clothes, I like my clothes to be what they call 'front of closet.' That's a garmento term, but it's those pieces you want to wear every day. That favourite sweater,' says Som, who has dressed many notable figures, including Michelle Obama and Beyoncé. Article content Article content Som extended his elegant way with the everyday to the 100 recipes in his cookbook debut, Family Style (Harvest, 2025). 'I want these to be dishes you'll make over and over. That'll be great when you get home on a Tuesday at seven and you're tired, or perfect for Saturday company.' Article content Writing the book was a period of rediscovery for Som. He dedicated Family Style to his mom, Helen, and maternal grandma, Mary, the family matriarch who died 20 years ago. His aunts, uncles, cousins, sister and mom shared stories, which helped him learn more about Mary through her food as he translated their memories into recipe form. Article content Helen and Mary instilled a love of food in Som from a young age. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, his grandmother's mostly Cantonese cooking and American baking and his mom's love of French food and the local, seasonal cuisine born out of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., shaped him. Article content 'I could never get McDonald's, which, as a kid, is really annoying, but now, I fully appreciate the dedication she put into everything that was put on the plate,' he says of Helen's cooking. 'As a working architect, she didn't have tons of time. But when my sister and I would get our braces tightened, she would make spinach soufflé because it was easy to eat, and we got our vegetables. Food has always been very central to my life, and it's been exciting to delve into it even more.' Article content Article content Som sees his career in food as an 'expanding focus,' not a departure from fashion. 'I still have a few toes in fashion in a few projects. But back when I did my runway collections, I was full-on. I had all toes, all hands and my full body — I was all-in fashion, and cooking was always in the background. I think it was the thing that kept my feet on the ground in a very heady, sometimes crazy industry.' Article content Retreating to his kitchen, whether to cook for himself or his friends, was a way for Som to centre himself. When he closed his runway collection business in 2015, cooking became even more integral. Som's professional foray into food started organically as he tapped into something that he had long loved to do.
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Michelle Obama shares why it's a pain to be married to Barack amid divorce rumors
Former first lady Michelle Obama revealed new details on some of the annoyances that come with being married to Barack Obama. Obama sat down with her brother Craig Robinson for an episode of their IMO podcast, bringing on as their guest Dr. Sharon Malone. Like Obama, Malone had a stint at being a political wife, as she's married to former Attorney General Eric Holder. Obama recalled that the women first met at a Congressional Black Caucus event when Barack Obama was a U.S. senator. 'They put us together because we were both reluctant spouses attending one of these huge dinners,' the former first lady recalled. 'And what, where were they? Was Barack a U.S. senator?' President Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 - after becoming a nationally recognized political figure for the stirring keynote he delivered at the Democratic National Convention earlier that year. He remained a senator until 2008, resigning after he was elected president of the United States. 'There was a line of people waiting to shake hands with our respective husbands,' Obama recalled. 'You know, people, like reaching over our heads and spilling water on us, trying to get to these two, you know, illustrious men.' Obama made eye contact with Malone and realized they needed to be friends. 'She had the same look on her face as I did, like, "Here we go,"' Obama recalled. 'And I looked over at this beautiful woman ... But I just saw the look on her face, which expressed the sentiments that I felt, which was.' 'P***ed off,' Robinson offered. Obama rejected that. She said it was more like, 'You see this? Like, this is crazy, isn't it, girl?' the former first lady said. For years Obama has been frank about being a 'reluctant' political spouse - but she pulled back even more earlier this year when she decided against going to the late President Jimmy Carter's funeral in January. She then skipped President Donald Trump's second swearing-in ceremony on January 20th, leaving her husband to go solo. Those absences sparked divorce rumors, which Obama addressed during a taping of actress Sophia Bush's podcast last month. 'That's the thing that we as women, I think we struggle with disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year people were, you know, they couldn't even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing,' Obama said. 'That this couldn't be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself, right?' she continued. Obama added: 'That's what society does to us.' 'We start actually, finally going, "What am I doing? Who am I doing this for?" And if it doesn't fit into the sort of stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative and horrible.'
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Business
- The Guardian
TV series on Sam Bankman-Fried and crypto firm FTX heads to Netflix
Netflix is getting into the cryptocurrency business, with a limited series produced by the Obamas on the rise and fall of crypto exchange FTX and its disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. The Altruists, from Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Grounds Productions, will focus on the eccentric entrepreneur and his business – and sometimes personal – partner Caroline Ellison. The show will feature 'two hyper-smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye – and then seduced, coaxed, and teased each other into stealing $8 billion', according to the official logline. Northern Irish actor Anthony Boyle will play Bankman-Fried, with US actor Julia Garner signed to play Ellison. Graham Moore, writer of the 2014 film The Imitation Game, and Jacqueline Hoyt, an executive producer of the Prime Videos series The Underground Railroad, will serve as co-showrunners of the eight-episode series. The Circle and Shrinking director James Ponsoldt will direct. 'For nearly three years now, Sam and Caroline's story has been my daily obsession,' Moore told the Hollywood Reporter. 'I'm so grateful to my friends at Netflix and Higher Ground for loving this story not only as much as I do, but in the same way that I do. And we can't wait to show all of you why.' FTX, one of world's best-known cryptocurrency exchange platforms with an A-list roster of celebrity proponents, collapsed in spectacular fashion in 2022 after a run on customer withdrawals revealed a missing $8bn in customer funds. Bankman-Fried, a leading proponent of the movement known as 'effective altruism' and a major donor to both political parties, was convicted in November 2023 on seven charges of fraud and conspiracy; he was ordered to forfeit $11bn in assets and spend 25 years in prison. Ellison, who was CEO of FTX's associated hedge fund Alameda Research, as well as Bankman-Fried's on-and-off girlfriend, served as the star prosecution witness after pleading guilty to other charges. The Altruists marks a return for Garner to Netflix – she played another notorious scammer, Anna Delvey, in the 2022 series Inventing Anna, and won three Emmys for her role on the Netflix hit Ozark. Boyle's credits include FX's Say Nothing, on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and Apple's Masters of the Air and Manhunt. Sign up to Headlines US Get the most important US headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion The series is one of several projects in the works on the high-profile financial saga. It was announced in November that Girls creator Lena Dunham will write a movie based on Michael Lewis's 2023 bestseller Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon for Apple and A24. Amazon Prime Video has a limited series in the works from Marvel directors Joe and Anthony Russo and writer David Weil. There are also multiple competing nonfiction projects: one from Vice Media and the Information on effective altruism, another from studio XTR and director David Darg that promises 'unprecedented access to key players at FTX and the cryptocurrency community' in SBF's home base of the Bahamas. A third documentary from Fortune and Mark Wahlberg's company Unrealistic Ideas will focus on the relationship between Bankman-Fried and one of his most vocal critics, Binance founder and CEO Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao. Bloomberg has already aired a nonfiction special on the debacle, titled Ruin: Money, Ego & Deception at FTX.
