Former first lady Michelle Obama joked men would turn childbirth into an Olympic sport with trophies, as Sharon Stone quipped abortions would come from vending machines.
Michelle Obama used a recent episode of her IMO podcast to mock how men would handle pregnancy and labor, casting them as glory-seekers who would film the pain and hand out awards.
The former first lady, 62, sat with actress Sharon Stone, 68, and Obama’s brother Craig Robinson for the Wednesday, September 30 conversation. What started as talk about women’s health quickly became a round of jokes about male vanity, abortion access, and why men supposedly leave women without help.
Stone opened with complaints about how little she was taught about the female body growing up and what she called an imbalance in medical research and reproductive care. She then delivered the line that set the tone.
Stone said:
"If men could be pregnant, you could get an abortion from a vending machine."
She added another jab on family leave.
Stone said:
"Paternity leave would be when you got the bonus."
Obama laughed along and escalated the bit. She pictured an entire medals ceremony built around labor pains.
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 punchline going: "There you go! Right? You win, win." A RadarOnline write-up of the exchange captured the back-and-forth in detail.
Robinson, seated between the two women, looked ready to exit the topic. He pointed offscreen and interrupted.
Robinson said:
"Hey, what's that over there?"
Stone noticed. She narrated his discomfort in real time: "Craig's like, I've had it with this conversation, moving on. Moving on."
Obama did not let it drop. She framed the subject change itself as the problem.
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 again, asking Stone how she ended up in New York. When the sports line came up, he answered directly: "I didn't switch to sports." Obama still held the floor: "Not yet, not yet. I was like, we were just getting started, weren't we, Sharon?"
Stone, the Basic Instinct and Casino star and Oscar nominee, also claimed girls of her generation got almost no practical guidance. She said no one explained periods or tampons and offered a specific charge about product testing: "they didn't test tampons on human blood until 2026." She described older limits on research involving women and on reproductive care as arcane b-------.
When Robinson asked about New York, Stone pivoted to family trouble. She said she went there "on this other happy subject when my brother went to prison, Craig." Per her account, older brother Michael Stone got into the cocaine business in the late 1970s and later served time in Attica on drug trafficking.
The podcast segment never left the gender script for long. Men were the ones who would turn labor into content and hardware. Men were the ones who get bored and reach for sports. Men, in Stone’s joke, would make abortion as easy as a snack run. Obama’s closer treated her brother’s discomfort as proof that women "don't get help."
Elite podcast stages still sell the same story: male indifference as the default villain, abortion humor as liberation, and any man who wants a subject change as the reason policy stalls. Ordinary listeners can judge the trophies for themselves.
