The former First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated her 57th birthday this past Sunday, and to mark the occasion, her husband Barack Obama took to social media to honor her.

“Happy birthday to my love, my partner, and my best friend,” Barack, 59, wrote alongside a throwback photo of Michelle. “Every moment with you is a blessing. Love you, Miche.”

 

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Birthday wishes poured in for Michelle from other famous folks as well, including the Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis.

“Happy, happiest of birthdays @MichelleObama!” she wrote. “Thank you for your authenticity, beauty, courage, intelligence and loyalty. You’re OUR hero, sis!! I hope to honor you and all you are in my portrayal of you! Love ya.”

Happy, happiest of birthdays @MichelleObama! Thank you for your authenticity, beauty, courage, intelligence and loyalty. You're OUR hero, sis!! I hope to honor you and all you are in my portrayal of you! Love ya 💛💛💛 pic.twitter.com/O65h4j671o

— Viola Davis (@violadavis) January 17, 2021

“I had so much fun posing as this queen in honor of her birthday,” tweeted the former “The Office” star Mindy Kaling. “I’m so happy you exist. You’re a role model for me, my daughter & my son. You remind me how to handle adversity not with anger, but with grace. And you do it all while looking incredibly fashionable.”

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The Oscar-winning actress Regina King got in on the action as well by tweeting one of Michelle’s own tweets that goes, “Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.”

“Happy Worthday @MichelleObama,” King added. “Today is the date a giant was born. January 17th #DayofGiants.”

"Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t" -Michelle Obama
Happy Worthday @MichelleObama
Today is the date a giant was born. January 17th #DayofGiants pic.twitter.com/U42RijwinB

— Regina King (@ReginaKing) January 17, 2021

Michelle thanked her fans for their support by posting a makeup free selfie of herself along with the caption, “Thank you all for the lovely birthday wishes! I know this past year has been difficult for us all on so many levels, so I just hope you all are taking care of yourselves and finding joy in the smallest moments,” she wrote. “Love you all.”

 

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Michelle and Barack have been married since 1992, and they have two children together, daughters Malia and Sasha.

Last year, Barack admitted in an excerpt of his book “Promised Land” that was obtained by CNN that his presidency took a toll on his marriage. He wrote that he could “sense an undercurrent of tension” in his wife during their time as president and First Lady.

“Despite Michelle’s success and popularity, I continued to sense an undercurrent of tension in her, subtle but constant, like the faint thrum of a hidden machine,” Obama wrote. “It was as if, confined as we were within the walls of the White House, all her previous sources of frustration became more concentrated, more vivid, whether it was my round the clock absorption with work, or the way politics exposed our family to scrutiny and attacks, or the tendency of even friends and family members to treat her role as secondary in importance.”

He added that there were nights when “lying next to Michelle in the dark, I’d think about those days when everything between us felt lighter, when her smile was more constant and our love less encumbered, and my heart would suddenly tighten at the thought that those days might not return.”