**Megyn Kelly Fires Back at Michelle Obama Over Haircare Comments**
*Published: November 5, 2025, 6:30 p.m. ET*
Megyn Kelly has delivered a sharp response to Michelle Obama’s recent remarks about the challenges she faced maintaining her hair as a woman of color during her time in the White House, RadarOnline.com can report.
While promoting her new style book, *The Look*, Michelle Obama told *People* magazine about the “first world problems” she encountered trying to tame her natural hair. She stated, “The way our hair naturally grows out of our head is beautiful,” before adding, “But if we struggle to make it look like the standard, that means we are spending thousands of hours and lots of money straightening out what is naturally curly hair, right?”
Kelly strongly criticized the former first lady’s comments, describing them as “racially charged” and accused her of playing the “race card.”
“Who is she f—— kidding? Everything, everything is about poor boo f—— hoo Michelle Obama. And especially when you get around the topic of race, it’s nonstop,” Kelly said during the latest episode of her podcast.
She argued, “What she’s saying is she’s bitter because society’s standards, in her view, don’t allow Black women to just walk around with their natural hair. That is bulls—. Black women can walk around with whatever hair they want.”
Kelly continued, “Only in Michelle Obama’s warped mind do white people not like them unless their hair looks like white hair.”
Taking her critique further, Kelly pointed out the universal experience of women spending considerable time on their hair. “And here’s the other thing, the nerve of this woman to pretend that Black women are the only women who have to spend a bunch of time getting their natural hair, to, quote, ‘conform to these alleged society standards,’ because virtually every woman I know, every woman, spends a s— ton of time on her hair and wants it to look better than God made it,” Kelly said. “It’s not a Black thing. It’s a human thing, and it’s especially a woman thing, but she’s always reducing everything to race.”
### Megyn Kelly Targets the Obamas
Michelle and Barack Obama have often been targets of Kelly’s criticism. Recently, after Michelle spoke candidly about the hardships she has faced, Kelly accused the former first lady of being pessimistic and going “on a four and a half minute tear about herself and how hard it is to be Michelle Obama.”
“Here’s the first one about how difficult it is for Black women like Michelle to articulate their pain… This is the perfect sound bite after the discussion we just had about how the left looks at everything through this identity,” Kelly said. “You could say prism, you could also say prison, where she’s talking about how women aren’t allowed to articulate their pain, about how they just suck it up. They don’t show that, as if men never do that… Men are known, aren’t they, for articulating their pain. That’s what you think of when you think of ‘man,’ traditionally.”
### Michelle Obama’s ‘Out of Touch’ Image
Kelly went on to describe Michelle Obama as “privileged” and compared her to Meghan Markle, whom she also labeled “out of touch.”
“The thing about Michelle Obama is, she’s always negative. Everything she says has a negative spin on it. She’s negative about the country. She’s negative about her time as First Lady. She’s very negative about her husband,” Kelly stated.
She concluded her critique by questioning the Obamas’ marriage, declaring that the couple “have a bad marriage.”
“She did not marry the right person. It’s not a good match. She almost never says anything nice about him,” Kelly added.
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*This article reflects the views expressed by Megyn Kelly regarding Michelle Obama’s comments and does not necessarily represent RadarOnline.com’s editorial stance.*
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