Oh. Dear. Lord. This is a fashion fail to beat all fashion fails.

She's an overbearing onion in a petunia patch.

JWM

No, she's a waxy fat stinking cabbage among a bed of slender and elegant endive. She has no arugula.

Oh wont you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside that red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Queen -- Fat Bottomed Girls
Words and music by Brian May

From the school of stupid guy games this would be a slam dunk in " Yes, Drunk, No".

She only looks huge if you assume she's a woman. Once you understand she's Patrick Ewing in a dress it all makes sense.

Racism. Straight up.

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I'm inclined to agree with Fat Man and Brian May, but...geez.

There are exceptions to every rule, I suppose.

Scott M: As I was drinking coffee, I read your post. I have coffee splattered all over my screen thanks to you! But Scott, your post is priceless.

Most fashionable First Lady EVAH!

Lover her or hate her, that was one mean photographer.

I'm just salivating over the shoes those two felines are sporting. Even the soles of those shoes are classier than anything MO is wearing.

Moochelle Obama is fat, ugly, dresses very badly, is a frump, is badly educated, greedy, selfish and rude. Her sense of entitlement is unlimited.

Her campaign against fat children displays a total lack of self-awareness. It is laughable.

She is a disgrace to FLOTUS. Remember all the elegant, productive Presidents' wives we've had, a nearly unbroken line since Eleanor Roosevelt. She is even worse than Mrs Ford and Carter.

I'm in Australia and even I'm embarrassed. That's one of the most cringe-worthy things ever.

Oh, and I'm with Joan on the shoes.

That's Carla Bruni in the middle.

One word: YUM.

Hey peasants, Moochelle is not only the most glamorous First Lady since Jackie O, she's also on Maxim's 100 Hottest Women list.

The media's sycophancy is embarrassing.

Wait a minute.. wait a minute! What happened to her hair? I don't remember MO having a cropped down fro. Where's the hair? I need to see more pictures of this incident. And I'm sure all the men visiting here won't object as long as the other two women are in the frame.

I don't really care what she looks like, and frankly I find the current internet comments about her appearance embarrassing. Face it, if she had the soul of Laura Bush she'd be beautiful.

Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

O boned her-She's U-gleeee all the way. Wanna bet O dreamt he wuz boning Ewing?

I'm no fashion expert, but it looks like Plantation-chic to me.

Number 1 on Google auto-fill for "Michelle Obama is" is "fat". Number 5 is "a man" and number 6 is "so ugly".

This is not the work of a mischievous, mean photographer.

This picture is a photo shop. The ladies on the left (Princess Letizia and Mme Sarkozy) were on their way to a luncheon in April 2009. Mrs. Obama was added - I haven't been able to find the original yet.

I agree with Mr. De Witt, it is Mrs. Obama's values and personality that I find embarrassing, not her appearance. She is a very strong appearing American Negro woman, whom it would be politically correct to call African-American, and has a "large-boned" physique. If her physique was matched with a similarly robust, America-loving, generous, and sunny disposition, the conservative side of the internet would LOVE her. It's her sourness, her anti-American mean streak, and her elite-left sense of entitlement that make her appear so awkward.

I do not like the woman.

I do not like ANY person who ever took a check for running (even putatively) any office, department, or division that has "Diversity" in the title. Double the disgust when it is my money being spent.

She's not a likable person.

But I saw this stuff coming when the media, led by Oprah Winfrey, attempted to force an overnight metamorphosis of the woman from Chicago thug moll to lady of State. I knew it would end badly; Ms. Obama is simply unequipped to be a player at any level beyond "paid sweet $ for being connected to a high profile politician"....

Axe handles. Plural.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1173949/The-day-Carla-met-match-Mrs-Sarkozy-upstaged-Spains-real-princess-glamour-showdown.html

I found that in seconds on Google.

It doesn't change my opinion of that woman, though.

Sorta gives a whole new dimension to the word 'entropy'.
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Yes, it's shopped, and she wouldn't have dressed like that for that occasion. But let's be honest...even if Michelle had been there and appropriately dressed, it wouldn't have been a fair contest.

Shopped? Now that's *very* interesting. Can you point me to an original?

I would never have critized Ms. Obama's appearance if she hadn't happily promoted the idea that she is beautiful, flawless, and a fashion icon. Since she has done this egotistical parade, she's fair game. I feel sorry for a woman who has no one to tell what does and does not look good on her and feel more sorry for a woman so full of herself that she would not listen to the advice.

There's more pics in the comments as SondraK's.

Michelle definitely looks p'shopped into the pic.

Yes I can! Check your email for proof.

Not my work, butt not bad either.

M

Those arms almost drag the ground. Is that the photoshopped part?

No, the arms are all natural.

Arrrrgh..... now please supply name and address of photoshopper so I can visit and instruct with baseball bat.

I wonder if her many deluded admirers ever give any thought to how much she spends to look that bad. It is beyond profligate.

Even with photoshop in mind, there's no lipstick fashion in the world that could cure this.

But she is as she is and added to the photo.

Meh. C'mon, the real pics of her bedonk are far worse than this, though lacking the stunning comparisons.

She wears dresses like the one above because she's too proud to wear an "Esther" spanx under more form fitting dresses.

She looks like an Alabama maid on wash day. What is up with her HAIR? Couldn't find a 'do rag?

You weren't really cheated, Gerard. That's a real picture of Ms. Bruni and Princess Letizia, and that's a real picture of Ms. Obama. The only thing 'shopped was the juxtaposition, which didn't happen in real life.

Carla's prettier than the Princess, though it would take a lot of crackers for either one...

I want to criticize people for being snarky about Michelle Obama's looks, at least partly because I'm no prize myself -- people don't run screaming, but I don't get many invitations -- but Rob de Witt and Punditarian have it right: If M'chelle had a pretty personality she wouldn't be bad looking. As it stands, she's Poke Sallet Annie, "A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor-totin' woman." Snark away.

Regards,
Ric

Once I heard that the pic was a photoshop, I looked again, and it became obvious. Look at the far right edge of M.O.'s arm against the dark background.
But, truth to tell, my eye never quite got to M.O.'s right arm. It sort of landed on the other two ladies' hips, legs, and (yeah, Joan) those lethal pumps, and well...
I never looked much north of that, to tell the truth.

JWM

It doesn't matter whether God made Michelle Obama beautiful or pug ugly, we none of us have control over what we were born with. Criticizing basic looks is pointless. But what a person does with what they have, now that is fair game for praise or damnation.

What just amazes me about Obama, and irritates beyond words, is that except for desperate, just happened emergencies, no First Lady should ever appear crumpled, tousled, without makeup, underdressed, uncoiffed or without a pleasant expression. First Ladies have almost unlimited resources and countless volunteer experts to help them, they are a very important public icon of the free world. Obama's slapdash appearance cannot be an accident; it must be a deliberate slap at Americans, and at her classier predecessors who played by the rules.

Michelle Obama demeans us all, shows a deep lack of self-respect and undercuts her husband practically every time she shows her face.

iOwnTheWorld had the best caption: "Does this princess make my ass look fat?"

Who's the chick in the middle? Those are Christian Laboutin shoes and cost upwards of $1500.

The lady in blue is Mme. Sarkozy, nee Bruni.

Ric,

That line refers to Poke Salad Annie's mother.

P.

Original blurb from iOwnTheWorld's posting of this picture:

"Not sure who sent us this, but, TY! Inserting Meshell into this pic is an eye opener. And a gullet opener."

We posted it acknowledging that it's a photoshop. It had nothing to do with blowing parts up to see pixels, for me it was immediately apparent because whoever did this p-shop put part of Michelle's skirt in front of the woman's handbag even though she is placed a few feet in front of the hottie.

I'm still not sure why the pic has to be real to make it's point, as long as Michelle's pic is undoctored.

Gerard, bravo for promptly rooting this out. This can happen to the best of us, and you are definitely one of the best.