Elle’s December 2018 Cover Will Make You Yearn For a Stylish First Lady

Please step away Janet Museveni, for a few minutes!

Former US First Lady, Michelle Obama stars on the December 2018 cover of Elle Magazine US photographed by Miller Mobley. Mrs. Obama wears a poplin shirt, pleated-voile Skirt and Leather Corset from Dior on the cover.

See excerpts from her accompanying interview

On going to counseling with her husband: “It was about me exploring my sense of happiness. What clicked in me was that I need support and I need some from him. But I needed to figure out how to build my life in a way that works for me.”

On the pressure of being the first black family: “We felt the pressure from the minute we started to run. First of all, we had to convince our base that a black man could win. It wasn’t even winning over Iowa. We first had to win over black people. Because black people like my grandparents—they never believed this could happen. They wanted it for us. But their lives had told them, “No. Never.” Hillary was the safer bet for them, because she was known. Opening hearts up to the hope that America would put down its racism for a black man—I think that hurt too much. It wasn’t until Barack won Iowa that people thought, Okay. Maybe so.”