Michelle Obama (in an archive photo from May 5, 2018) shares stories of her life in her new memoir, "Becoming".(Photo: CHRIS DELMAS, AFP / Getty Images)

The big revelations of Michelle Obama's new memoirs have made headlines, including the fact that she and Barack Obama turned to in vitro fertilization to conceive their two daughters.

"Becoming", which is released Tuesday by the Crown, also contains new elements that are new. Here are half a dozen:

1. Hillary Clinton's Council.

After moving to the White House, Michelle Obama met one of her predecessors, Hillary Clinton, first lady secretary of state. Michelle's new role was undefined and sometimes confusing, "a kind of strange sidecar for the president."

Hillary Clinton has been frank about her own mistakes. She told her successor that she "misjudged the country's willingness to make the first woman a proactive professional woman," recalls Michelle Obama. "She tried to do too much, too fast, it seemed, and she ran into a wall."

Over the next eight years she said: "I myself have tried to keep this wall in mind."

First Lady Michelle Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the 2012 International Women of Courage ceremony in Washington, DC on March 8, 2012. Obama shares the advice that She received from Clinton in her new book. (Photo: JEWEL SAMAD, AFP / Getty Images)

2. Even royal feet can hurt.

At her first dinner at Buckingham Palace, Michelle Obama found herself chatting with Queen Elizabeth II. "You are so great," the queen noted. (Indeed, the queen would have 5 "4" "Michelle Obama has 5" 11 ".)" Well, the shoes give me a few inches, "she replied.

The queen glanced at Michelle's black Jimmy Choos and shook her head. "These shoes are unpleasant, is not it?" she asked. Michelle confessed that her feet hurt. The queen admitted that her feet in black pumps were also hurting her.

"We were just two ladies tired and oppressed by our shoes," writes Michelle. She then laid a loving hand on the queen's shoulder – unbeknownst to her, a violation of the protocol that would trigger a firestorm.

3. Give the slip to the secret service.

Michelle Obama had to twist her mother's arm to convince her to move from South Chicago to the third floor of the White House. She and her daughters needed her there, she told him. Marian Robinson reluctantly agreed, but she also gave up secret service protection. She came and went as she pleased, through the doors of Filene's local CVS and basement, which was in the national press building, even though reporters never seemed to notice it.

When strangers commented that she looked exactly like Michelle Obama's mother, she shrugged and said, "Yes, I understand a lot."

4. The horrors of Sandy Hook.

During their eight years in the White House, President Obama asked his wife to go to the Oval Office in the middle of a workday just after mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. "Usually the job was to work and the house was the house, but for us, as for many people, the Newtown tragedy broke all the windows and destroyed all the fences," she wrote. "When I entered the Oval Office, Barack and I kissed silently, there was nothing to say, no words."

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5. A nightmare of South Lawn.

Michelle Obama tells her nightmare at the White House. Someone – a man named Lloyd, from an unidentified agency – had created a petting zoo on the southern lawn for the Obama family to enjoy. Surprisingly, there was a lion, a tiger, a panther and a cheetah. They had been seduced to make them sure to walk among them, he assured them.

But when they did, the cheetah took off. "We have an emergency plan for exactly this scenario!" Lloyd assured him. Secret Service agents fired guns loaded with tranquilizer darts – hitting the Sasha girl in the right arm. "It's your plan?" Michelle Obama shouted. "Are you kidding me?"

Fortunately, she woke up.

6. A resource for biographers?

In thanks, Michelle Obama said she did not keep a diary, but sat down twice a year with a friend, Verna Williams, who now works at the University of Cincinnati Law School. Their recorded conversations generated about 1,100 pages of transcripts on his years at the White House – perhaps a resource for future studies.

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