For wifeMichelle Obama‘s 55th birthday, former PresidentBarack Obamawants to make one thing clear:
“I knew it way back then and I’m absolutely convinced of it today — you’re one of a kind,”he wrote Thursdayalongside a throwback image of the two, decades younger, smiling for the camera with his arm slung over her shoulders.
Michelle is closing the book on a very busy 54th year which saw the release of her blockbuster memoir,Becoming.
Within a month of its November release,it sold three million copies. The former first lady also embarked onan oft sold-outbook tour.
Becomingincludes discussions of the Obamas’ marriage and Michelle’s fertility struggles and childhood in Chicago.
“Because we’re role models, it’s important for us to be honest and say, ‘If you’re in a marriage and there are times you want to leave, that’s normal,’ because I felt that way,” she said.
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“There were definitely times when I wished things were different,” she told PEOPLE, “but I don’t think I ever thought, ‘I’m just checking out of this.’ “
InBecoming, Michelle also opened up about a miscarriage she suffered two decades ago. She ultimately conceived daughters Malia and Sasha via in vitro fertilization (IVF).
“I felt like I failed because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them,” Michelle told ABC’s Robin Roberts in November. “We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.”
She and the president, 57, wed in 1992 having first met at a Chicago law firm where they both worked — with her as his adviser.
Then, eventually, they kissed.
She recalls inBecoming: “As soon as I allowed myself to feel anything for Barack, the feelings came rushing — a toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.”
source: people.com
