Michelle Obama is closing out the decade on a high note by being named 2019’s “most admired woman” in the world for the second year in a row. Former US president Barack Obama's wife made it to the list by the survey conducted by Gallup survey, that has been asking Americans which individual they admire the most each year, since 1948.
Obama is the only woman on the list to rank in double digits with 10 per cent of the votes. Other women who made it to the list were climate activist Greta Thunberg, TV boss Oprah Winfrey, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Queen Elizabeth II and Melania Trump, who got 5 per cent votes.
Last year, when Obama released her memoir Becoming, she won 15 per cent of the votes. This year, Obama is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her work on the audiobook adaptation of her memoir. She is the sixth first lady after the likes of Hilary Clinton, Jackie Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower and Betty Ford to be awarded this recognition.
Current president Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama, in the meanwhile, are tied for the position of most-admired man. The votes were taken from around 1,025 Americans above the age of 18 via a phone call.
