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Michelle Obama: My Bangs Were a ‘Midlife Crisis!’
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When you’re the First Lady of the United States, you don’t have many options if you’re looking to act on a midlife crisis.
So Michelle Obama did what any woman looking to shake things up (within Secret Servce-approved parameters, of course) would do: cut her bangs.
“This is my midlife crisis, the bangs,” Obama joked on The Rachael Ray Show. “I couldn’t get a sports car. They won’t let me bungee-jump. So instead, I cut my bangs.”
And unlike many midlife crises, this one has gotten a big thumbs up from her spouse. “I love her bangs!” President Barack Obama said shortly after she cut them on her 49th birthday. “She always looks good.”
Not that she needed her husband’s approval, of course; though President Obama may be the leader of the free world, his wife is strictly the boss of her own hair. “I can do this,” she told Ray, smiling and gesturing to her new cut. “This is all mine.”
Tell us: Have you ever changed up your look impulsively? What do you think of Obama’s “midlife crisis”?
–Alex Apatoff
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