Top Reads Tracee Ellis Ross on choice and singledom Tracee Ellis Ross was a guest on the IMO podcast hosted by Michelle Obama and her older brother Craig. During the conversation, Tracee spoke about the “fascinating adventure” of dating and the nuanced grief she experiences at times moving through life without a partner or children of her own. And By Stephanie • Apr 17, 2025 11:55 am
Style Intro for August 21, 2024 Dear Gossips, The undisputed star of primetime last night was former First Lady, Michelle Obama, who delivered what many consider to be one of the best convention speeches of all time at the DNC in Chicago. I watched it live and then I couldn’t sleep because I kept replaying By Lainey • Aug 21, 2024 09:15 am
Books Michelle Obama on Relationships Michelle Obama has been doing some serious press for the release of her new book, The Light We Carry. As expected, our favourite former First Lady is dropping gems of knowledge and sharing some of the insights and wisdom she’s acquired throughout her life. And while, for the most By Stephanie • Nov 17, 2022 11:43 am
Outfit of the Week Intro for January 22, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Outfit of the Week and, so far, the Outfit of the Year, was worn on Inauguration Day this week, when Joe Biden became President of the United States and Kamala Harris was officially sworn in as Vice President. This outfit, and obviously the person wearing it, caused By Lainey • Jan 22, 2021 09:04 am
Michelle Obama Ranking the speeches of Youtube’s “Dear Class of 2020” Recently, I ranked some virtual commencement speeches given by celebrities to the class of 2020 as they miss out on their traditional commencements during quarantine. Then, on Sunday, Youtube hosted (another) online commencement, “Dear Class of 2020”, for the class of 2020 which brings us a whole new crop of By Sarah • Jun 08, 2020 01:07 pm
Style Intro for May 7, 2020 Dear Gossips, Did you watch Michelle Obama’s Becoming last night? I did. I cried. Didn’t take much. Any time they played footage of the Obamas during the campaign, on election night, during the Obama presidency, when she spoke about how leaders have to be responsible with their words, By Lainey • May 07, 2020 08:52 am
Barack Obama Intro for May 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s been seven weeks in lockdown and I’m afraid all the time. One thing that helps, for me, is having a schedule. Before the pandemic I was already a super scheduled person. Maybe even over-scheduled. I have alarms set throughout the day for shoot times, meeting By Lainey • May 06, 2020 08:51 am
Royals Meghan Markle gets the Michelle Obama treatment British Vogue confirmed yesterday that Meghan Markle is the first ever to guest-edit the magazine’s September issue. They released the cover featuring the 15 women who are “Forces for Change” and Royal Meghan’s interview with Michelle Obama. One of the women featured on the Vogue cover is Sinéad By Lainey • Jul 30, 2019 10:43 am
BFFs The Clooneys’ presidential weekend Amal and George Clooney summer in Lake Como, Italy, where they famously have a villa. I say famous because they are famous and their friends are famous and they’re always hosting famous people. George has been doing this for a long time – he sounds like an outstanding, master class By Lainey • Jun 21, 2019 11:16 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Beyoncé for Michelle Obama Earlier this morning, after we’d wrapped the Show Your Work podcast, #BeyoncéHomecoming special episode, Duana, Kathleen, and I were still high off of what we’d just watched and talked about and Kathleen kept saying, “What a time to be alive”. Duana and I kind of giggled – but it’ By Lainey • Apr 17, 2019 11:33 am
Grammy Awards 2019 Michelle opens the Grammys STRONG Well, if you want to start your award show strong, starting with Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is one way to do it. I know that the only First Lady we acknowledge didn’t actually open the Grammys (Camila Cabello did with a performance I forgot about immediately after it happened) By Kathleen • Feb 11, 2019 06:57 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Michelle Obama THESE BOOTS. Balenciaga. And they were trending on Twitter yesterday and almost sold out now. What other outfit could be the Outfit of the Week? Duana and I dedicated over an hour to Michelle Obama’s Becoming on this week’s episode of Show Your Work. Mrs Obama’s wardrobe By Lainey • Dec 21, 2018 09:13 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: the work of Michelle Obama Michelle Obama’s book, Becoming, is the bestselling hardcover of 2018 – and it was only released a month ago. Probably many of you have asked for it for Christmas and you’ll be reading it over the holidays. Perfect. Read it and then listen to this episode because while it’ By Lainey • Dec 19, 2018 11:59 am
Beyoncé Intro for July 16, 2018 Dear Gossips, Last week, ahead of England’s World Cup semi-final game against Croatia, Justin Timberlake posted a video for the people coming to his show that night, announcing that he’d be broadcasting the game. You know what ended up happening. And my question for you English football fans By Lainey • Jul 16, 2018 08:39 am
BFFs Prince Harry in Chicago with the Obamas I love that Prince Harry is close with Barack and Michelle Obama. The way I imagine it, they’re totally best friends and text each other all the time. This is probably not real life. But why can’t we just have this dream. I have more details about my By Lainey • Nov 01, 2017 01:49 pm
Girlcrushes When Issa Met Michelle There needs to be a word for when two of your favourite humans you’ve never met but wish they were your family and/or best friends forever end up in the same picture. Like when Lainey woke up at 5am and fangirled over this photo of Rihanna and Beyoncé. By Kathleen • Sep 28, 2017 11:04 am
