She grew up in a modest two-bedroom apartment in Chicago and became the first lady of the United States. A fairy tale – and soon a customer!
Michelle Obama wrote her biography ("Becoming"). And she has it all: she attacks Donald Trump and reveals details about everyday life in the White House and about their marriage.
The interest is enormous: Tuesday, the book comes out, Michelle makes a reading tour in large halls, 30 to several thousand euros cost tickets.
Everyone wants to know what's going on with Obama. And Michelle reveals a lot, she writes about her first impression of him, that he always lets his socks hang out, visit the couple's counselor and even miscarry.
"We wanted a child, but it did not work," she writes. "When the pregnancy test became positive, all the doubts were forgotten and we were happy." But a few weeks later, she had a miscarriage. "Lost and alone," she had felt. "I had the impression of having failed," she told ABC.
His daughters Sasha and Malia were conceived by artificial insemination. Michelle Obama: "I realized I'm in my thirties, we should do it that way." A process that left her largely alone. Barack then ran for the Illinois Senate. And Michelle "stayed behind to manipulate my reproduction system very well."
Obama also writes that the first years of their marriage have not always been easy. He traveled a lot as a young politician: "The marriage proposal was a way for us to learn to talk about our differences."
They met in 1989 at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. Barack (then 28) was badigned to Michelle (then 25) in first year. While the secretaries were arguing over the "nice" guy, Michelle was impressed by the "deep, bady baritone" and the "crazy combination of serenity and power."
After a month, he wanted to go out with her, but she let him move. Eventually, they organized a luncheon at the art museum, went for a walk and saw Spike Lee's movie "Do The Right Thing". When he finally embraced it, it had been an "explosion of pleasure, gratitude, accomplishment, astonishment".
In 1991, they got engaged to a dinner. The waiter finally brought the dessert and a ring. In 1992, they married and lived with their two daughters in Chicago, until Barack Obama ran for president in 2008. She was racially badaulted during the election campaign, she had great doubts about herself, but she always said, "Am I good enough? Yes it's me!"
She would also have a good chance of becoming president. But she does not want to. Michelle: "I just do not have a pbadion for that"