Michelle Obama Debuts New Look, Reveals She Recently Got 10 Piercings at Once and Why

Michelle Obama has a little more sparkle in her ears.

On the Wednesday, February 11 episode of the 62-year-old former First Lady’s IMO podcast, her brother and cohost, Craig Robinson, alerted their audience to her new ear piercings.

“I have always thought about getting some extra piercings in my ear and just never got around to it,” Michelle explained. “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 more of a cluster, a constellation, with twinkles.”

The Becoming author showed off five new piercings on each ear, and recalled how she “was going in for a few,” and then told her piercer, “‘Oh, put one there… Oh yeah, let’s try one there.’”

“So in one sitting, I got 10 piercings,” she shared before noting the pain “wasn’t bad at all.”

As for what her family thinks, Robinson gave her the stamp of approval, saying, “It’s really beautiful.”

“If I didn’t like it, you know, I would say,” he added.

Meanwhile, Michelle revealed that her husband, Barack Obama, didn’t catch on to her new look very quickly, as the former president “noticed yesterday” and she “got them done like four days ago.”

“Barack finally noticed, took him a couple of days,” Michelle joked. “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?’”