Michelle Obama has been single for her entire life.
First Lady of the United States ( FLOTUS ) is the informal but accepted title held by the wife of the President of the United States , concurrent with the president 's term of office . There are five living former first ladies : Rosalynn Carter , wife of Jimmy Carter ; Barbara Bush , wife of George H. W. Bush ; Hillary Clinton , wife of Bill Clinton ; Laura Bush , wife of George W. Bush ; and Michelle Obama , wife of Barack Obama . Michelle Obama . Raised on the South Side of Chicago , Illinois , Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School , and spent her early legal career working at the law firm Sidley Austin , where she met her husband .