THE ROUND UP: MICHELLE OBAMA TELLS HOW SHE SNAGGED BARACK | KOBE CLEARS THE AIR | AMY WINEHOUSE TREATED FOR EXHAUSTION

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Michelle Obama, the wife of U.S. Sen. & presidential candidate Barack Obama sat down with the Chicago Sun-Times and spoke on why she doesn’t like to wear a lot of makeup (too much work) and what she does on her free time. The Princeton & Harvard Law graduate also spoke on how she snagged Barack.

“What I talk about with my girlfriends is that before you start worrying about, ‘I don’t have a man,’ where are you in your own space, in your own head?” she told me. “What do I need to be as healthy and happy on my own with or without? And the minute you get that in order, it seems like things fall into place.” [ READ MORE ]

Good advice! On to the Round up!

Word has it that Amy Winehouse passed out from exhaustion yesterday in London. Her rep confirmed that she had been taken to a London hospital and treated for “exhaustion.” The rep also says Winehouse has since been discharged and is currently at home. She has been ordered to take “complete rest.” All her current tour dates have been canceled.

Rumors about basketball star Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa circulated the net last week, claiming that they were on the verge of divorce and that they were seperated. Kobe told E! that the reports are 100 percent false. [ READ MORE ]