Becoming The Obamas

- Angela Bekiaris

BEING the First Lady of the United States was one of her biggest achievements, but 20 years ago, Michelle and Barack Obama had other things going on. Now that they are out of the White House Barack Obama’s wife is opening up in her new memoir, Becoming; about life back in the day – before politics, before kids, and when smoking pot wasn't such a big deal to her.

Talking about her memoir recently, Michelle got emotional as she opened up about a very hard time in their lives – the difficulties she had falling pregnant, and a heartbreaking miscarriage that happened 20 years ago. Describing that time in her life, Michelle says she felt ‘lost’ and ‘alone’ after suffering a miscarriage and undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to conceive her two daughters. In an interview on