Former First Lady Michelle Obama has revealed in her memoir that she had a miscarriage and used in vitro fertilisation to conceive both chil...
Former First Lady Michelle Obama has revealed in her memoir
that she had a miscarriage and used in vitro fertilisation to conceive both
children, Malia and Sasha.
Mrs Obama told ABC's Good Morning America she felt
"lost and alone" after her miscarriage 20 years ago.
Mrs Obama, a former lawyer and hospital administrator, said
"I felt like I failed because I didn't know how common miscarriages were
because we don't talk about them. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow
we're broken," she said, adding that "it's important to talk to young
mothers about the fact that miscarriages happen".
She said that when she was around 34 years old, she
realized that "the biological clock is real" and that "egg
production is limited", which made her decide to seek in-vitro
fertilisation.
"I think it's the worst thing that we do to each other
as women, not share the truth about our bodies and how they work.
Mrs Obama revealed that the couple's relationship struggled
at times, especially after her husband joined the state legislature, leaving
her at home where she was forced to administer IVF shots herself.
"Marriage counselling for us was one of those ways where
we learned how to talk out our differences," she told ABC.
She also describes falling in love with Mr Obama one summer
night in Chicago.
"As soon as I allowed myself to feel anything for
Barack," she writes, "the feelings came rushing - a toppling blast of
lust, gratitude, fulfilment, wonder."
But in contrast to her orderly box-checking, Obama says her
husband was "a swerver." She describes a moment while they were
dating. "I'm snuggling, and I'm like, 'What's on your mind, babe?,'
thinking he's going to talk about my eyes. Instead, "he'll say something
like 'world peace and hunger and you know, fixing the economy.' And I'm like,
'Is that what you're thinking?' "
Obama says it was "a little destabilizing to be a
box-checker married to a serial swerver," and that she started questioning
herself because she "could feel the force of his beliefs."
.@MichelleObama opens up to @RobinRoberts in revealing new interview; says she felt "lost and alone” after suffering miscarriage 20 years ago. Watch @ABC special covering her journey to motherhood and more from her memoir, "Becoming," Sunday night 9/8c. https://t.co/ONXwpuZ3WF pic.twitter.com/1Teb5ycWIe— Good Morning America (@GMA) 9 November 2018
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