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Becoming, and in a clip for an upcoming ABC special released on Good Morning America today, the former First Lady discussed going through a Despite being dedicated to having children, Obama writes in her new memoir that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, had difficulty getting pregnant. And when Obama did become pregnant over two decades ago, she had a miscarriage. "I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed because I didn't know how common miscarriages were," Obama tells ABC News anchor Robin Roberts Like many people, she didn't realize how common her experience with miscarriages was "because we don't talk about them," Obama says. "We sit in our own pain thinking that, somehow, we're broken." She went on to reveal that she and Barack went to marriage counseling, which helped her realize how she could take better care of herself and make herself happier—and ask for help when she needed it. "I know too many young couples who struggle and think there's something wrong with them," she says. "And I want them to know that Michelle and Barack Obama, who have a phenomenal marriage and love each other, we work on our marriage and we get help with our marriage when we need it." The silence surrounding miscarriages only adds to the stigma, which is why it's so important that Obama is speaking publicly about her experience. As But, having one miscarriage The most important thing, though, is demystifying these processes so the people going through them don't feel ...

Image Credit: AP There has never been a first couple like Michelle Obama. The 44th President of the United States and his accomplished wife have been together for roughly 32 years and married for 30, celebrating their recent anniversary on October 3, 2022. After time as the State Senator of Illinois, two terms in the White House, and book tours and family trips alike, this couple has endured so much and made history along the way. Take a look back at Barack and Michelle’s romance with this timeline of their relationship. More Related News: At just 25 years old, Michelle was working as an attorney in the Southside of Chicago when she was asked to mentor Barack. While their relationship remained strictly professional at first, Barack eventually built up the courage to ask Michelle on a date. “Once [Barack and I] started talking and became friends, he was very clear — just like, ‘I want to date you.’ At least in my experience up until then, men would be coy. They would, you know, sort of look around the room. It was all so complicated, and it felt, a little immature,” Conan O’Brien. “What struck me about Barack was his, lack of pretense,” Michelle said. “I mean, he was somebody who knew what he wanted, and wasn’t afraid to say it. And, I thought, ‘well, if he’s that in tune with his emotions that he can say out loud to somebody that doesn’t know.’ He didn’t know whether I liked him back! He was like, ‘look, let me tell you, this is what I think about you: Articles Trending No...

“Did you hear about Michelle Obama?” my mother asked me last Friday morning. “Her girls were born through in vitro.” Despite the awkwardness of her phrasing— born through in vitro—I knew my mother was pleased by this connection to the former first lady. Two of her own favorite people, my daughters, were also born through IVF. I hadn’t heard, and was as surprised as many others were by the news revealed by the prepublication discussion of Becoming, Obama’s new memoir. “I felt like I failed,” Obama told Roberts. “Because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were. Because we don’t talk about them.” Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised. But it’s interesting to consider why Michelle Obama kept her miscarriage and fertility treatment private for so long, and what it means for her to reveal it now. “Imagine all the pressure of being in that position, as the first African American first lady,” says my colleague Ronisha Browdy, an English professor at North Carolina State University. Browdy studies black women’s rhetorical strategies and has written about Obama’s messaging as first lady. “Now she can tell her story independently of her husband and without the additional risk of her story affecting, or being affected by, his administration.” When the Obama family became the first family, Sasha and Malia were 7 and 10, their parents nearly a decade past the fertility struggles the first lady writes about in her memoir. There were new challenges, especially for Michelle, who entered...

Washington, Jan 7: Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, has suddenly resigned from his post, an action which has prompted many observers to speculate about the reason for his departure. Rumors afloat say that Gibbs was the victim of Michelle Obama's wrath, having been dismissed from his post after the First Lady became angry with him for publicly discussing her pregnancy. President Obama said of Gibbs that "It's sad [he] would slip and reveal Michelle's pregnancy to the public." A few days ago, Gibbs, in conversation with the media, referenced rumors of Mrs. Obama's pregnancy, although he did not confirm or deny them directly. However, White House sources have confirmed that Michelle Obama is about two months into her pregnancy and the President and First Lady expect to have the baby sometime in late July 2011. Origins: President and Mrs. Obama are the parents of two daughters, 12-year-old Malia Ann Obama and 9-year-old Natasha ("Sasha") Obama. And, contrary to online rumors, no announcement has been made indicating that the First Family will be growing larger in the near future. Although rumors of a pregnancy were Sun on 23 December 2010, one of which stated that: PREDICTION: Michelle Obama will have another baby. Nikki predicts that the President's daughters Malia and Sasha will get a brand-new sibling — or two! It could be a boy or a girl, but is more likely a set of twins, she says. The circulation of rumors about a Michelle Obama pregnancy seem to have been ...

One of the nice thing about having a glamorous First Family is that it can provide cheap escapist entertainment amid a bleak economy and partisan political rancor. Rumors of Michelle Obama's pregnancy have surely helped lubricate many a cocktail-party conversation in recent days around Washington, DC, where the social scene is rebooting as a new Congress convenes and as Barack Obama's historic inauguration fades into the past. Now the gossip can likewise fuel small talk the rest of the country. WowOWow.com, The rest of us are now left to study inaugural pictures in hopes of finding shots of Michelle drinking, enough of which could prove the pregnancy rumor false. In the last photo below, unfortunately, you can't really tell what's in her glass. (It was taken Jan. 20 at a lunch in the U.S. Capitol building.) Or we could just let the secondhand gossip pass us by. But then what would we do, balance out checkbooks? Ick. (Photos: WowOWow, Perez Hilton, Getty) • •

President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are famous for keeping the details of their personal life private. But In an early look at Michelle Obama’s new memoir, Becoming, the “We were trying to get pregnant and it wasn’t going well,” the former first lady writes. “We had one pregnancy test come back positive, which caused us both to forget every worry and swoon with joy, but a couple of weeks later I had a miscarriage, which left me physically uncomfortable and cratered any optimism we felt.” By the time she hit her mid-30s, the former lawyer told Good Morning America, she had a growing awareness that “the biological clock is real” and “egg production is limited.” So she sought out IVF treatments from a fertility doctor and began giving herself hormone shots, the AP reported. While her “sweet, attentive husband” worked at the state legislature, she was left “largely on my own to manipulate my reproductive system into peak efficiency.” (For more about how the process works, read on.) Eventually, Obama became pregnant, first with Malia, who is now 20, and then Sasha, now 17. Barack Obama with Michelle and Malia after his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago on Tuesday, January 10, 2017. TNS via Getty Images But people often don’t talk about these experiences, both because they can be physically and emotionally painful and because of the stigma and lack of awareness about how common they are. That’s now rapidly changing. The Obamas’ revelation com...

Washington, Jan 7: Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, has suddenly resigned from his post, an action which has prompted many observers to speculate about the reason for his departure. Rumors afloat say that Gibbs was the victim of Michelle Obama's wrath, having been dismissed from his post after the First Lady became angry with him for publicly discussing her pregnancy. President Obama said of Gibbs that "It's sad [he] would slip and reveal Michelle's pregnancy to the public." A few days ago, Gibbs, in conversation with the media, referenced rumors of Mrs. Obama's pregnancy, although he did not confirm or deny them directly. However, White House sources have confirmed that Michelle Obama is about two months into her pregnancy and the President and First Lady expect to have the baby sometime in late July 2011. Origins: President and Mrs. Obama are the parents of two daughters, 12-year-old Malia Ann Obama and 9-year-old Natasha ("Sasha") Obama. And, contrary to online rumors, no announcement has been made indicating that the First Family will be growing larger in the near future. Although rumors of a pregnancy were Sun on 23 December 2010, one of which stated that: PREDICTION: Michelle Obama will have another baby. Nikki predicts that the President's daughters Malia and Sasha will get a brand-new sibling — or two! It could be a boy or a girl, but is more likely a set of twins, she says. The circulation of rumors about a Michelle Obama pregnancy seem to have been ...

Becoming, and in a clip for an upcoming ABC special released on Good Morning America today, the former First Lady discussed going through a Despite being dedicated to having children, Obama writes in her new memoir that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, had difficulty getting pregnant. And when Obama did become pregnant over two decades ago, she had a miscarriage. "I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed because I didn't know how common miscarriages were," Obama tells ABC News anchor Robin Roberts Like many people, she didn't realize how common her experience with miscarriages was "because we don't talk about them," Obama says. "We sit in our own pain thinking that, somehow, we're broken." She went on to reveal that she and Barack went to marriage counseling, which helped her realize how she could take better care of herself and make herself happier—and ask for help when she needed it. "I know too many young couples who struggle and think there's something wrong with them," she says. "And I want them to know that Michelle and Barack Obama, who have a phenomenal marriage and love each other, we work on our marriage and we get help with our marriage when we need it." The silence surrounding miscarriages only adds to the stigma, which is why it's so important that Obama is speaking publicly about her experience. As But, having one miscarriage The most important thing, though, is demystifying these processes so the people going through them don't feel ...

“Did you hear about Michelle Obama?” my mother asked me last Friday morning. “Her girls were born through in vitro.” Despite the awkwardness of her phrasing— born through in vitro—I knew my mother was pleased by this connection to the former first lady. Two of her own favorite people, my daughters, were also born through IVF. I hadn’t heard, and was as surprised as many others were by the news revealed by the prepublication discussion of Becoming, Obama’s new memoir. “I felt like I failed,” Obama told Roberts. “Because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were. Because we don’t talk about them.” Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised. But it’s interesting to consider why Michelle Obama kept her miscarriage and fertility treatment private for so long, and what it means for her to reveal it now. “Imagine all the pressure of being in that position, as the first African American first lady,” says my colleague Ronisha Browdy, an English professor at North Carolina State University. Browdy studies black women’s rhetorical strategies and has written about Obama’s messaging as first lady. “Now she can tell her story independently of her husband and without the additional risk of her story affecting, or being affected by, his administration.” When the Obama family became the first family, Sasha and Malia were 7 and 10, their parents nearly a decade past the fertility struggles the first lady writes about in her memoir. There were new challenges, especially for Michelle, who entered...

Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are famous for keeping the details of their personal life private. But In an early look at Michelle Obama’s new memoir, Becoming, the “We were trying to get pregnant and it wasn’t going well,” the former first lady writes. “We had one pregnancy test come back positive, which caused us both to forget every worry and swoon with joy, but a couple of weeks later I had a miscarriage, which left me physically uncomfortable and cratered any optimism we felt.” By the time she hit her mid-30s, the former lawyer told Good Morning America, she had a growing awareness that “the biological clock is real” and “egg production is limited.” So she sought out IVF treatments from a fertility doctor and began giving herself hormone shots, the AP reported. While her “sweet, attentive husband” worked at the state legislature, she was left “largely on my own to manipulate my reproductive system into peak efficiency.” (For more about how the process works, read on.) Eventually, Obama became pregnant, first with Malia, who is now 20, and then Sasha, now 17. Barack Obama with Michelle and Malia after...