Obama Marriage in NYT Magazine, Michelle Obama in Glamour

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Obama Marriage in NYT Magazine, Michelle Obama in Glamour
Lynn Sweet



The Obama marriage -- analyzed and parsed -- is the subject of a New York Times Magazine Sunday cover story, with the First Couple sitting down in the Oval Office with reporter Jodi Kantor to talk about their relationship, which is presumably at a high point because they are living under the same roof full time for the first time since 1996.

On another front, First Lady Michelle Obama, adding mentoring to her portfolio, is on the cover of the new Glamour magazine, where she offers dating advice to women and poses with her East Wing interns. "Cute," said Mrs. Obama to women hunting for partners, "only lasts for so long." CBS anchor Katie Couric did the interview.

If you are wondering whether that red dress Mrs. Obama is wearing on the cover was a frock Glamour sent over, the answer is no. Mrs. Obama's spokeswoman, Catherine McCormick-Lelyveld, told me Wednesday that the first lady wears only her own clothes for photo shoots.

The Obamas offer candor tempered with caution -- no need for Mrs. Obama to reprise her riff about her husband's bad breath in The Times -- in talking about how 10 months in the White House has impacted their union. In a pre-emptive move, President Obama wrote about some of the low points of their marriage in his 2007 bestseller, "The Audacity of Hope." But he left room for Kantor to fill in a lot of blanks. Kantor was the co-writer of a recent Times story about Mrs. Obama's ancestral roots and has written extensively about the personal lives of the Obamas. The Kantor keeper question: "How can a couple have a truly equal partnership when one member is president?"

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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/29/the-obama-marriage/

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1. The NYT Mag article is great. I read it last night. It is already on line.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/magazine/01Obama-t.html?hp

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2. Great. Thanx for the link! n/t