Michelle Obama has opened up on her experiences with infertility and her “biological clock” in a candid new memoir, revealing that she had a miscarriage before undergoing IVF treatments to conceive her two daughters Sasha and Malia.
The former First Lady’s new book, Becoming, is released next week, and prior to this, she spoke with Robin Roberts of Good Morning America about the emotional difficulty she faced after the miscarriage, two decades ago.
.@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) November 9, 2018
She told Roberts that she felt it important to speak out on the experience, saying: “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 and how they don’t work.”
It is believed that as many as one in four of all pregnancies may end in miscarriage, and yet they remain a taboo topic, which is something Obama hopes to try and change.
“I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed,” she continued, “because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were, because we don’t talk about it. We sit in our own pain thinking that somehow we’re broken.”
Becoming by Michelle Obama, which describes her experiences from young adulthood in south Chicago to the White House and beyond, will be released in Australia on November 14.
