Michelle Obama Frets Young Women Are Not Allowed The Unearned Confidence Young Men Have

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is tired of young women not being capable to beryllium arsenic judge of themselves arsenic young men are.

During Wednesday’s section of her "IMO" podcast, which she co-hosts pinch her relative Craig Robinson, Obama said to "Seinfeld" and "Veep" prima Julia Louis-Dreyfus astir really she wishes younger women had nan unbridled assurance that young men successful their 30s person — arguing that erstwhile women yet commencement emotion bully astir themselves, they’re older and little visible to society.

"We're ever hedging, you know, because successful nan backmost of our minds, we weren't raised pinch nan certainty of maleness that, you cognize – kind of nan assurance that young men successful their 30s have, which they haven't earned. They conscionable person it," she told nan actress.

"You know, we don't commencement emotion that and owning that until our 50s and 60s, astatine a clip erstwhile we commencement to beryllium treated arsenic invisible successful society," Obama added. 

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During Wednesday's section of her "IMO" podcast, erstwhile First Lady Michelle Obama mentioned that she was ne'er capable to person nan assurance that young men undeservedly person until she was good into being middle-aged. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The taxable came up pinch Louis-Dreyfus mentioning really she has go friends pinch 87-year-old character Jane Fonda successful caller years and has marveled astatine her "extraordinary" life that isn’t successful nan spotlight arsenic overmuch anymore. 

"And I was truthful struck by nan breadth of her life, nan profundity – she's done truthful galore different things. And it sewage maine reasoning about, wow, there's truthful galore women retired location that are older – I mean, astatine nan clip she was 85, I judge – that are older that person had these bonzer lives, and we're not proceeding from them."

Obama suggested this was a societal issue, replying, "We've talked astir this a lot, really women, arsenic we age, we get pushed retired of nan picture."

"Yeah, it’s incredible," nan "Seinfeld" actress replied. 

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama connected nan group of her podcast successful June. (Michelle Obama YouTube channel)

Obama went connected to say, now that she’s older, she yet feels judge of herself and assured successful her contented — a mindset she said she couldn’t acquisition erstwhile she was younger. 

"Now that I’m 60…  this is really nan first clip successful my life wherever I consciousness wholly me, and I tin perfectly clasp my wisdom," she said. "I mean, because I deliberation we, arsenic women, we walk astir of our lives saying, ‘Well, possibly I don't cognize what I'm talking about.’ We suffice everything,"  

"We apologize," Louis-Dreyfus interjected.

"We apologize. We don't want to put our opinions connected nan array because possibly we're wrong," Obama continued.

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Since nan commencement of her podcast pinch Robinson, Obama has remained mostly apolitical, choosing to attraction much connected manner topics and questions astir family and individual relationships.

In a May episode pinch popular prima Beyoncé Knowles' mom, Tina Knowles, Obama urged parents to defy nan impulse to beryllium friends pinch their kids arsenic they’re increasing up. 

"And truthful galore group are trying to beryllium their kids’ friends, and they deliberation that that makes you closer," Obama said. "But fto maine show you, I was not my children's friend. I emotion them deeply. There was respect. And, you know, for those of you trying to beryllium friends pinch your kids, our kids emotion america conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic adults. In fact, nan relationship, I think, is moreover person because now they’ve earned my friendship. Now we tin beryllium friends. Now, possibly you cognize something."

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In a late June episode pinch societal scientist and writer Jonathan Haidt, Obama stressed nan request for parents to limit their kids’ clip connected smartphones and societal media. 

"The bottommost statement is that we've sewage to get tougher. We've sewage to get much resilient for our kids. Because I cognize clip and clip again that a batch of parents do what's easy for them, you know, and not needfully what's champion for nan kid," she continued.