Michelle Obama reveals Barack’s ‘very irritating’ habit that makes her want to ‘smack’ him

Michelle Obama has revealed an annoying eating habit of husband Barack Obama that makes her want to ‘smack’ him.

Michelle, 61, who has been married to the former president, 64, since 1992, revealed the secret during Wednesday’s episode of her podcast, IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson.

During the episode, the brother and sister duo welcomed psychoanalyst Dr Orna Guralnik as their guest.

The three of them spoke about relationships and marriage, as Michelle began to reflect on her life with Barack as empty-nesters, and how they sometimes don’t always feel like they have much to talk about over dinner, since they spend so much time together.

The couple, who still live in Washington, DC, have share two daughters, Malia, 27, and Sasha, 24, who are in Los Angeles. 

‘We always have the kids to talk about, but not on a day-to-day basis,’ Michelle said during the episode.

‘We’ve noticed how much of our time we’ve spent talking about them, right? So now that we’re empty-nesters, it’s like, “Well, what are we going to talk about?”‘

‘So we’re together all day,’ she explained of her and her husband, as she shared that she doesn’t ask him to tell her about his day until dinnertime.

However, her brother, Robinson, disagreed, as he said that there was ‘always something to talk about.’ 

But Guralnik offered, ‘There’s a way to be next to another person, even in silence, that can be very alive.’

The doctor then asked Michelle to challenge herself and go into what she is really thinking as she’s seated across from Barack at the dinner table. 

‘Because how many times does somebody ask, “What are you thinking about?” And you’re like, “Well, let me make up a thing,”‘ Michelle said.

She continued, ‘Because I don’t actually want to tell you what I was thinking about, which is like, “The way you’re chewing makes me want to smack you upside the head.”‘

Guralnik explained that even saying something like this can bring up a deeper conversation, and could be ‘really interesting.’

‘You could open something up there in a big way,’ she shared, explaining that chewing can be the ‘essence’ of who someone is.

‘The girls and I are very irritated with the way Barack chews,’ Michelle said.

The former First Lady questioned if their annoyance was a ‘statement’ of something deeper, to which Guralnik said ‘no.’

Michelle’s confession about Barack comes just a few weeks after she admitted on another episode that her husband ‘struggled’ to parent younger daughter Sasha.

The mother-of-two opened up about their children to her guests Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, where she alluded to her husband finding one daughter easier to raise than the other.

Michelle and her guests were discussing the dynamics between siblings and parents, when she shared an anecdote from when the power-couple were raising their then-teenage girls in the White House between 2009 and 2017.

She explained that her eldest daughter Malia, would try appease her father while her youngest Sasha, did not.

‘I’d say this to Barack when it comes to [our] oldest Malia, she is going to figure out who you are and what you like’ and discuss it,’ Michelle explained, admitting the perception was an ‘unusual’ trait in a teenager.

‘When Malia was a teenager, it wasn’t that she was going out any less or doing anything differently,’ she continued,'[but] she would tell me ‘I’m going out this weekend, but I’m going to go in and give dad like 15 minutes.”

‘She’d go into the treaty room and go, ‘tell me about Syria?” Michelle recounted.

‘Then she’d be like “ok, we’ll I’m gone.”‘

‘Barack would come out of the treaty room going, “I just had an amazing conversation with Malia,”‘ and I’m like “ok,”‘ she said dryly.

Meanwhile, she said her youngest Sasha was ‘like a cat’ and wasn’t so much a people pleaser, which Barack struggled with.

‘She’s like, ‘don’t touch me, don’t pet me, I’m not pleasing you, you come to me,” the former FLOTUS explained.

‘Barack’s like, well, ‘she’s difficult,’ and I was like ‘no, the first one was a pleaser, right?’

She added that her daughters still have the same ‘temperament.’ 

Both have kept an extremely low profile since leaving the White House and have not commented on their mother sharing family secrets.

Since leaving The White House, Michelle has opened up a lot about her marriage to Barack, getting real about their struggles during those years in the public eye.

Over the past few months they have faced ongoing rumors about their marriage status.

The rumor mill swirled after her decision to skip both Jimmy Carter’s funeral and President Donald Trump’s inauguration – with Michelle insisting they were decisions she made for herself. 

Her absence at the high-profile political events stoked divorce rumors, as did President Obama’s admission in April that he was in a ‘deep deficit’ with his wife.

In July, they addressed divorce rumors on the podcast. 

‘There hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I thought about quitting my man,’ Michelle said passionately about Barack.

She continued: ‘And we’ve had some really hard times. So we had a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures, and I have become a better person because of the man I’m married to.’