Megyn Kelly Goes On Wild Rant About Michelle Obama & Black Women’s Hair

Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly is taking aim at former First Lady Michelle Obama and her comments about Black women's hair amid the release of her new book.

Obama recently released her new picture book, "The Look," which reflects on her most iconic fashion and beauty moments in the White House and the pressures she faced as the first Black First Lady. In the book, Obama discusses how she often felt scrutinized for her style choices and hair, noting that she avoided wearing her natural curls and braids because she didn't want it to become “a distraction” from her husband’s work.

While many Black women have said they relate to Obama's experience, Kelly dismissed the former First Lady’s perspective during a segment on "The Megyn Kelly Show."

“That is bullsh*t,” Kelly said. “Black women can walk around with whatever hair they want. Only in Michelle Obama’s warped mind, do white people not like them, unless their hair looks like white hair.”

Kelly went on to double down on her take, claiming Obama was “making everything about race.”

“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,’” 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. I’ve burned my hair out of high heavens with those irons, like, who is she fg kidding? Everything, everything is about poor boo fg hoo Michelle Obama. And especially when you get around the topic of race, it’s nonstop.”

"The Look," which was released on Tuesday (November 4), features interviews with hair stylists and designers who helped craft Michelle Obama’s iconic public image. Obama’s comments in the book have sparked conversations about workplace discrimination and societal pressure to conform to Eurocentric beauty standards.

“I was mindful that I’d be subject to a different set of expectations as the first Black woman to fill this role,” Obama wrote. “Barack and I were being portrayed as Black people who didn’t understand the ‘rules’ of the rarefied world we had found ourselves in and were not unequivocally welcomed into.”

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