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On the outside, Michelle and Barack Obama appear like the picture-perfect couple - she was seen by his side throughout every step of his presidential campaign and the eight years he was in office - but behind-the-scenes it's not always been smooth sailing for the former first family.

While at first glance their romance seems like a glorious tale of a doting husband and supportive wife, the truth about their decades-long relationship is a very different story.