Jennifer Aniston is making it clear there isn’t any reality to the rumors linking her romantically to Barack Obama, and he or she nonetheless has no concept how the hypothesis started. In a brand new Self-importance Truthful cowl interview, the Mates star laughed off the gossip and defined she has truly spent extra time with Michelle Obama than with Barack.

“I don’t suppose anybody actually pays consideration to stories like that if you happen to’re the topic of them,” Aniston stated. She shared that she just lately loved a dinner with Michelle, noting, “I used to be fortunate sufficient to have dinner with Michelle a month in the past,” and that the relationship rumor was by no means introduced up throughout their dialog.

The origins of the declare stay unclear, but it surely started circulating across the time Michelle Obama skipped just a few main public occasions, together with Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration and Jimmy Carter’s funeral. Michelle has since addressed each her absences and her marriage to Barack.

On the most recent episode of her podcast IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, Michelle and her brother had been joined by the forty fourth president. Robinson joked, “Wait, you guys like one another? It’s so good to have you ever each in the identical room collectively.” Michelle responded, “I do know as a result of once we aren’t, people suppose we’re divorced.” Barack playfully added, “She took me again! It was contact and go for some time.”

Michelle then made it clear there has by no means been speak of separation. “There hasn’t been one second in our marriage the place I’ve considered quitting on my man,” she stated. “And we’ve had some actually exhausting occasions and we’ve had a variety of enjoyable occasions, a variety of adventures and I’ve develop into a greater particular person due to the person I’m married to.”