Michelle Obama Shares ‘Rare’ Casual Photo By Iconic Artist

A photo of former First Lady Michelle Obama wearing jeans and a T-shirt, taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz, is going viral after Obama shared the image to promote a new edition of Leibovitz’s book Women.

By mid-morning, one repost of the photo had already accumulated more than 250,000 views on social media and framed the photo op as “rare.”

Leibovitz 76, whose career began more than two decades ago with her early work for Rolling Stone, is known for photographing public figures in unconventional settings to highlight different facets of their personalities. In the new image, Obama, 61, is shown wearing boots, worn jeans, a wide belt, and a T-shirt, with her braided hair pulled back. The setting continue reading …