Barack Obama was willing to do whatever it took to get the attention of his now-wife, Michelle Obama, before they began dating.
Barack has shocked many after revealing his Mrs. initially turned down his advances when he initially first showed interest in her during the Oct. 29 chat with the hosts of โThe Pivotโ Podcast.
The former president of the United States met Michelle in 1988 after taking a summer job in Chicago at Sidley & Austin law firm. Michelle was working at the law firm as well.ย


Barack retold the story of how the two met when one of the podcastโs hosts Ryan Clark asked about Barackโs bold decision to go after a woman who was his โsupervisor at work.โ
โJust for your viewers who donโt know the story,โ he said. โSo Iโm three years older than Michelle but I had worked as a community organizer in Chicago before I went to law school. So Michelle had gone straight from college to law school she had graduated when I started law school and I went to work at this firm as a summer employee, summer associate. And so they assigned her as my summer adviser. She wasnโt supervising nothing.โ
To further clarify her position as it related to his. He said, โShe was showing me where the Xerox machine was. She was showing me, you know, how to keep your time sheets and she was taking me out to lunch because they were trying to recruit me. So we do it on the firmโs dime, so it wasnโt that hard. I asked her out after knowing her about two weeks, and sheโs like no, I canโt because Iโm your supervisor. I said youโre not supervising anything.โย
But Barack was determined to take Michelle on a date by any means necessary. So he offered up a solution that he hoped would eliminate Michelleโs concerns of it being inappropriate for her to date a person she was advising.ย
He said, โYou know what, Iโll quit my job and then you go out with me.โ
But to his disappointment, there was another obstacle outside of work relations that kept Michelle from saying yes to the date.
โShe said โNo Iโm not doing that. Iโm not concentrating on men right now anyway because yโall are trifling.โโ
Barack Obama breaks down bagging Michelle Obama when she was his supervisor on The Pivot pic.twitter.com/PSiQoMe9oJ
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After a few more tries and a barbecue event hosted by their law firm, Michelle came around.ย
โI was just charming,โ the father of two said. โIโm just saying. I broke her down after a couple of weeks.โ
After the barbecue, Michelle offered to drive Barack home, after which he suggested they go to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream. That ended up being their first date, where the two even shared a kiss, and the rest is history.ย
โHe applied that PRESSURE,โ said one commentator online, who was shocked at Barackโs declaration. โItโs a classic formula that still works to this day.โ
A second said, โThat man genuinely loves his wife you just gotta respect it.โ
Focusing on what he said, two others wrote, โObama been had the juice!โ and โHe was about to say I broke that thang down and caught himself.โ
Michelle and Barack now share two daughters Malia Obama, 26, and Sasha Obama, 23.
Just earlier this month, the couple celebrated 32 years of marriage, 10 of which Michelle actually said were years that she โcouldnโt standโ Barack.


โBut the minute we had kids, it was like, โwhere are you going and how far,โ said Michelle during a 2022 sitdown on REVOLT x Michelle Obama: The Cross-Generational Conversation. โAnd you start measuring โฆ Itโs like, โHow many diapers did you change. โฆ Oh, youโre golfing? โฆ Oh, you got time to golf? How you at the gym all the time?โ
The former first lady explained that their tough times came when their daughters were little due to the responsibilities of parenting that began to weigh on them.
โThatโs when all the measuring starts because you got this project and guess what, little kids โฆ theyโre terrorists,โ Michelle continued. โThey have demands. They donโt talk. Theyโre poor communicators. They cry all the time. Theyโre irrational.โ
But it was a time that they both made it through, and Michelle says she wouldnโt trade it for the world.
โThere are times Iโm 70, heโs 30. Thereโs times heโs 60โฆ40. But guess what? Ten years, weโve been married 30. I would take 10 bad years over 30. Itโs just how you look at it.โ