Michelle Obama reveals brutal reason she will not run for president

Obama noted that prior First Ladies, like Jacqueline Kennedy, had worn sleeveless dresses without inciting similar backlash, highlighting how scrutiny over her arms was used to “otherize” her.

“While I’m certainly not the only First Lady to face critique—Hillary was often criticized for her preference for pantsuits, and Nancy Reagan for her love of haute couture—this felt different,” she wrote.

“Barack and I were being portrayed as Black people who didn’t understand the ‘rules’ of the rarefied world we had entered and weren’t unequivocally welcomed into it.”