What Melania Has Said About Trump Vs. What Michelle Has Said About Obama

"We work very hard, both of us," Melania said of Trump in a 2015 interview with Parenting magazine. "It's a lot of responsibility for a woman to be married to a man like my husband. I need to be quick, smart and intelligent."

But according to Melania, that responsibility didn't make her marriage feel like work. "When you have love and respect and the best time together it feels fantastic," she said. "It's really something special."

"I know my husband. We have a great relationship. We are both very independent," Melania told Parenting magazine. "We know what our roles are and we are happy with them. I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married."

Melania advised against thinking you could change your partner, and instead told readers to just accept them. "He loves business, he breathes business. I love that about him, I love that," Melania said of Trump. "Doesn’t bother me. I am very independent. It is important to understand each other. If you need to change someone it will never work. You will try your whole life and never succeed."

"Maybe he makes demands in his business... but not at home," she told CNN's Larry King of Trump shortly after they were married in 2005. "We are very equal in the relationship and that's very important. You know, to marry a man like Donald, you need to know who you are and you need to be very strong and smart. He needs to know that he can rely on me sometimes."

"I don't want to say, 'come home and be with me,'" Melania said in a joint interview with Trump in 2005, according to CNN. "I don't want to change him. I want to give him space and I think thats very important in the relationship."

"Amazing heart. Amazing mind. Leader," Melania said when asked to describe Trump in one word during an interview with Fox News' On the Record. "That's what I say, leader."

"We are both very independent — I let him be who he is and he lets me be who I am," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper in 2016. "I don't try to change him. He's an adult. He knows the consequences and so I let him be who he is. I give him my opinions, many, many times and I don't agree with everything that he says, but that is normal."

Melania went on to say she often disagrees with Trump about some of the language he uses.

"We have a healthy rivalry, it's all about love," Michelle recently told author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie regarding the process of writing her memoir while Obama was in the process of writing his.

"Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys," Michelle said in a speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. "Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house, and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both."

But while simple, it was a life Michelle said she loved. "I loved the life we had built for our girls," she said. "I deeply loved the man I had built that life with and I didn't want that to change if he became president. I loved Barack just the way he was."

"When people ask me whether being in the White House has changed my husband, I can honestly say that when it comes to his character, and his convictions, and his heart, Barack Obama is still the same man I fell in love with all those years ago," Michelle went on to say at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. "He's the same man who, when our girls were first born, would anxiously check their cribs every few minutes to ensure they were still breathing, proudly showing them off to everyone we knew. That's the man who sits down with me and our girls for dinner nearly every night, patiently answering their questions about issues in the news, and strategizing about middle school friendships."

"One thing [that] is true [is] that I talk very candidly to my husband about how I feel, but that's the kind of relationship we have," Michelle once told CBS News in 2012.

Since leaving the White House the Obamas have taken time to rediscover what it feels like to be just Michelle and Barack. "We are finding each other again," the former first lady said. "We have dinners alone and chunks of time where it's just us — what we were when we started this thing: no kids, no publicity, no nothing. Just us and our dreams."

Michelle opened up about how her marriage to Obama has weathered the storms brought on by his political career in a 2009 interview with The New York Times. "It's unfair to the institution of marriage, and it's unfair for young people who are trying to build something, to project this perfection that doesn't exist," she said. "If our ups and downs in our marriage can help young couples sort of realize that good marriages take work." The former first lady said the image of an always perfect marriage was "the last thing" she and Obama wanted to project.

But while Melania and Michelle may approach their marriages differently, they have agreed on one thing — the secret to a happy marriage is separate bathrooms. Both women have, at separate times, divulged that separate bathrooms are the key to making a marriage a success.