Michelle Obama’s piercing story has a lot of holes in it. She said she just got 10 ear piercings in one sitting, prompting an “ouch” from her brother, Craig Robinson, on their “IMO” podcast Wednesday. (Watch the video below.)
“What I’ve learned is that you tried to get your ears pierced and thought I didn’t notice,” he said. “And I see you got all these new piercings in your ear.”
The siblings lightheartedly argued over when Robinson actually noticed, before the former first lady spilled.
“I have always thought about getting some extra piercings in my ear and just never got around to it,” she said. “I had a second hole that I had got before I had kids. But then I just got lazy and stopped putting an earring in it.”
“But nowadays, the young people in my life are doing more piercings,” she continued. “There’s just more beautiful adornment. You see there’s more of a cluster, the constellation sort of look of twinkles.”
Robinson counted five in one ear, prompting his sister to elaborate.
She said she intended to have a few piercings but got carried away. “Then I did my normal self and was like, ‘Oh, put one there and put one there. Oh yeah, let’s try one there.’”
“In one sitting, I got 10 piercings,” she declared.
“Ouch,” Robinson said.
“It wasn’t bad at all,” she said.
“It’s really beautiful,” he said.
“You like it?” she asked.
“If I didn’t like it, you know, I would say I didn’t like it,” Robinson answered.
Obama noted ruefully that her husband, former President Barack Obama, took a few days to notice.
“He was like, ‘You haven’t had your hair up, you’ve had your hair down.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know. I, like, sleep with you every night, dude, you know?’ But he noticed yesterday, and I got them done like four days ago.”
The former first lady signaled her intention to take more chances in fashion with the release of her pictorial book “The Look” in November.
“I’m grateful that I’ve reached the stage in my life where I feel empowered and free to do what I want and wear what I want,” Obama wrote in the introduction.
“During our years in the White House, people were constantly commenting on my looks and dissecting my clothing choices. That’s part of why I decided to write this book now: it’s time for me to reclaim my story — what fashion and beauty mean to me — in my own words.”
