Michelle Obama joked men would turn childbirth into an Olympic sport with trophies, as Sharon Stone suggested abortions would come from vending machines if men got pregnant.
Former first lady Michelle Obama and actress Sharon Stone spent a stretch of the IMO podcast trading barbs about pregnancy, pain, and what they say men would do if the roles were reversed, RadarOnline reported.
The segment, dated Wednesday, September 30, put Obama, 62, opposite Stone, 68, with Obama’s brother Craig Robinson sitting in, and visibly eager to move on.
Stone opened with a complaint about how little she said she was taught about the female body growing up, then pivoted to research and reproductive care. Obama backed the riff and pushed it further into mock pageantry.
Stone’s line on abortion was blunt. Obama laughed along.
Stone said:
"If men could be pregnant, you could get an abortion from a vending machine."
She added another jab on family leave policy in the same breath.
Stone said:
"Paternity leave would be when you got the bonus."
Obama then sketched her own scene: men filming labor, celebrating the pain, and handing out hardware for toughing it out.
Obama said:
"If there would be the birth Olympics, you know, men would film themselves going into labor and honoring their pain and, you know, it would be, there would be trophies given. You know, well done, dude. Bob, you really, you did that without an epidural."
She kept the bit going.
Obama said:
"There you go! Right? You win, win."
The exchange fits a pattern of Michelle Obama’s recent public jokes that turn private life and gender roles into stage material for a friendly audience.
Stone also claimed product testing lagged for women, saying no one explained periods or tampons to her the way she wanted and adding a date claim about tampon testing.
Stone said:
"No one told me, like, this is how you have your period. This is what a tampon... look, they didn't test tampons on human blood until 2026."
Robinson did not play along. He pointed offscreen, asked what was over there, and repeated the dodge before steering Stone toward a travel question.
Robinson said:
"Hey, what's that over there?"
Then he tried again.
Robinson said:
"Sharon, how did you end up in New York?"
Stone noticed. She said Craig had “had it” with the conversation and wanted to move on. Obama tied the interruption to a larger gripe about men and attention spans.
Obama said:
"This is why we don't get help, you know? They're like, 'Well, I'm bored with this conversation. Let's talk about sports.'"
Robinson pushed back on the sports dig.
Robinson said:
"I didn't switch to sports."
Obama still framed the break as premature, in the same vein as other candid Michelle Obama remarks on family and parenting that she has aired in public.
Obama said:
"Not yet, not yet. I was like, we were just getting started, weren't we, Sharon?"
Stone answered the New York question by dragging the show into her family’s past. She said she went there when her older brother, Michael Stone, went to prison.
Stone said:
"Well, I went to New York on this other happy subject when my brother went to prison, Craig."
Per Stone’s account, Michael got into the cocaine business in the late 1970s and later served time in Attica for drug trafficking. That detour sat far from childbirth trophies, and farther still from policy detail.
What the podcast did supply was tone. A former first lady and a Hollywood star treated abortion access as a punch line about vending machines, cast ordinary male boredom as the reason women “don’t get help,” and turned labor pain into an awards-show fantasy.
Listeners looking for numbers on maternal care, research budgets, or leave law did not get them. They got applause lines.
Obama has used the same podcast lane before for personal and institutional talk, including a turn that drew notice when Justice Jackson joined her for a liberal-podcast conversation about Supreme Court life and security.
She has also aired unvarnished lines about motherhood and her daughters’ move into adulthood, the kind of comments that critics have already refused to let slide when the subject is family duty rather than gender score-settling.
Stone, long known for Basic Instinct and Casino, brought the same talk-show bluntness. Obama, years out of the White House, matched it. Robinson’s interruptions were the only break in the stack of grievances.
None of that settles how childbirth is managed in hospitals, how leave is written in statute, or how research dollars are actually allocated. It does show what lands as easy laughter in that room: men as the foil, abortion as a gag, and a subject change treated as proof of the charge.
When the loudest voices on the left turn medicine and family policy into trophy ceremonies and vending-machine jokes, voters still living with the real bills and the real babies hear the priority list loud and clear.
