Physician Shirlene Obuobi best known for her comics, recently got married to her husband, Justin Barnowski, which was quite modern with a wedding website that had fans wanting to know more about the author and her personal life.
Shirlene is a Ghanaian American who is working as a fellow physician while balancing her life studying medicine and providing people with an insight into medical student’s life with her funny comics.
Let us learn more about the author’s husband, family, and career and have a sneak peek at some of their wedding photos.
Shirlene Obuobi and Husband Justin Barnowski
Shirlene Obuobi recently got married to her husband, Justin Barnowski; after meeting each other, in a way, the leads of a novel meet each other and quickly feel for each other’s charm.
The couple met each other through a dating app in June of 2017 named “Coffee Meets Bagel.” Both of them shared their point of view on their first meeting, their date,, and how they fell for each other on their wedding website.
Like the perfect match coffee and bagel make, Shirlene and Justin found each other and matched perfectly through a dating app.
According to Shirlene, Justin looked cute in his pictures on the app and turned out to be living next door to her place, and since she was looking to try her hand at dating after her third year of medical school, she met Justin for a coffee date.
Their first date may have been a bit of a disaster according to them, but they both certainly had fun. Starting their date as a coffee date, they planned to watch a movie which later turned into a double date with Justin’s high school friends.
Justin proposed to the fellow Obuobi at 63rd street Beach House under Lake Shore Drive pier, and the couple got married on June 4, 2022.
Shirlene Obuobi Wedding Photos
Shirlene Obuobi and her husband had their wedding ceremony in Chicago, and their wedding photos had the couple looking gorgeous with each other.
They had a Christian wedding at a church with Obuobi wearing a beautiful off-white silk wedding gown with a trail and a long veil while the groom looked dashing in a bow tie and tuxedo.
Justin and Shirlene also had a small traditional ceremony for the cartoonist side of the family where both the bride and groom were seen wearing traditional clothes and having a blast with her family.
The cartoonist had a wedding website for their wedding where her fans could be a part of their wedding by sending them gifts on their wishlist.
Shirlene Obuobi’s Career Explored
Shirlene Oboubi is a physician but best known as a cartoonist for her medical comics. She is currently a Cardiology fellow who graduated from the Pritzker School of Medicine.
In school, she found herself drawing and making comics as a form of expression and professional growth, which she turned into a skill making medical comics that has gained her a lot of attention, fame, and respect.
The cardiology fellow is best known as ShirlyWhirlMD in the comic world, where she writes medical comics students can relate to.
She has recently written a book named On Rotation, which is currently available for ordering online. The author has been busy promoting her book while also working as a physician.
Shirlene Obuobi’s Family
Shirlene Obuobi and her family came from Ghana and are Ghanaian-Americans living in Chicago.
The author was raised by her family in Chicago but later moved to Arkansas and Texas. Not much information regarding her parents and their details is made available to the public.
Obuobi looks like she was raised with her siblings, but their details are also not provided to the public. However, a sneak peek of her whole family, including her inlaws, was made public during her wedding.
Both the families had a fun union at their traditional ceremony on the author’s wedding day.