{"id":7917,"date":"2025-10-30T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:13:12","slug":"michelle-obama-reveals-sad-reason-she-never-wore-braids-in-white-house-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=7917","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama reveals sad reason she never wore braids in White House B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama recently shared that during her eight years as First Lady (2009\u20132017), she avoided wearing braids because she felt the U.S. \u201cwasn\u2019t ready\u201d for that look. In an interview with <em>PEOPLE<\/em>, she explained that before the Crown Act\u2014which bans race-based hair discrimination\u2014she didn\u2019t want her hairstyle to distract from her work.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the White House, Michelle began embracing her natural style, often wearing braids in public. She said braids now symbolize freedom and convenience, especially as she stays active with swimming and tennis. In 2022, she proudly wore braids at her and Barack Obama\u2019s official portrait unveiling, calling it a message that \u201cthis too is an appropriate and beautiful way to wear your hair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama recently shared that during her eight years as First Lady (2009\u20132017), she avoided wearing braids because she felt the U.S. \u201cwasn\u2019t ready\u201d for that look. In an interview with PEOPLE, she explained that before the Crown Act\u2014which bans race-based hair discrimination\u2014she didn\u2019t want her hairstyle to distract from her work. After leaving the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7918,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}