Former First Lady Michelle Obama made an off-handed comment about being single on her podcast amid persistent rumors that her marriage with former President Barack Obama is on the rocks.

Michelle and her brother, Craig Robinson, had Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky on the show, entitled IMO [In My Opinion], Wednesday when the Former First Lady appeared to share her interest in the executive.

‘You know, I have to say Brian if I’m a single girl out there and I find out that Brian Chesky is single and I could like stay in his house -‘ she began the podcast.

But her brother quickly cut her off, saying: ‘Here she goes, right to the relationship.

‘Brian you don’t have to feel pressure,’ Robinson assured his guest.

Chesky, though, seemed to be used to the attention.

‘Her and her husband have tried to set me up before,’ he claimed.

At that point, Obama shot back saying she is simply ‘very invested in Brian’s love life,’ which Chesky said he ‘appreciated.’

Former First Lady Michelle Obama made an off-handed comment about being single on her podcast Wednesday

She later insisted she is just ‘very invested in Brian’s love life,’ referring to her guest on the show, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky (pictured)

The odd exchange comes as Michelle and Barack face ongoing rumors about their marriage status

The odd exchange comes as Michelle and Barack face ongoing rumors about their marriage status – spurred by the former First Lady’s noticeable absence at President Donald Trump’s inauguration and Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

Former President Obama’s remarks last month that he is in a ‘deep deficit with my wife’ and has been trying to schedule fun things for them to do added fuel to the fire.

And for her part, Michelle shared her personal grievances with her husband, like his former impunctuality and lack of deep conversations with his golf friends.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has since seized on those comments, telling podcaster Megyn Kelly that the former First Lady ‘really dislikes her husband and it’s super obvious.’

‘I’m not just saying that to be catty…  I think I’m trying to feel compassion for her but her hostility toward the guy is unbelievable,’ he said.

The conservative pundit then went on to claim ‘there’s nothing more destabilizing than an unhappy marriage.’

Kelly agreed with Carlson, adding that ‘everything Michelle says about her husband is negative.’

‘I almost never say negative things about Doug,’ Kelly said of her own husband. ‘He’s not perfect but when I think about him, I don’t immediately go to whatever is negative. I go to what’s positive and what I love about him.’

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed on The Megyn Kelly Show last month that  the former First Lady ‘really dislikes her husband and it’s super obvious’

‘Her and her husband have tried to set me up before,’ the CEO claimed

But Michelle denied she and Barack are having marital problems when she appeared on a podcast with entrepreneur and investor Steven Bartlett earlier this month.

The podcast host brought up the ongoing speculation that she and her husband may have called it quits after she skipped out on Donald Trump’s inauguration, saying her absence left some believing ‘there’s an issue with you and Barack, there’s a divorce coming.’

‘Let me tell you, he would know it,’ Michelle said, directing a finger at her brother. ‘And everybody would know it.’

‘If I were having problems with my husband, everybody would know about it,’ she said, laughing.

Michelle then added that she is ‘not a martyr’ and joked about how she would address such marital strife publicly.

‘I would be problem-solving in public, like, “Let me tell you what he did,”‘ she said.

Robinson took the joke one step further: ‘If they were having a problem, I’d be doing a podcast with him.’

Michelle denied she and Barack are having marital problems when she appeared on a podcast with entrepreneur and investor Steven Bartlett earlier this month

Former President Barack Obama (left) also tried to silence divorce gossip by posting this photo for former first lady Michelle Obama’s (right) 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day on January 17th

Still, Michelle acknowledged that marriage is ‘hard’ for her and the former president but added that ‘I wouldn’t trade it,’ calling President Obama, ‘as the young people say… my person.’

‘The beauty of my husband and our partnership is that neither one of us was ever really, ever going to quit at it, because that’s not who we are. And I know that about him. He knows that about me.’

She said that young people give up on marriage too soon, in part because they see a false image of a perfect union between herself and her husband.

‘I talk about these things because I think that people give up too quickly on marriage,’ the ‘Becoming’ author said.

‘Because there is so much friction built into the equation. And if you’re not getting help, talking about it, going to therapy, just understanding how things are changing, and how do you continuously renegotiate your relationship with your partner, I just see people quitting,’ she said.

‘Because they look at me and Barack and go, ‘#couple goals.’ And I’m like, it’s hard,’ Obama added.