Michelle Obama reveals miscarriage, use of IVF to conceive daughters – and why she can ‘never forgive’ Donald Trump
- In her memoir ‘Becoming’, Michelle Obama describes the miscarriage 20 years ago that left her and Barack Obama feeling ‘cratered’
- She also explains how she tried to ‘block it all out’ when Trump won the 2016 election
Michelle Obama says she felt “lost and alone” after suffering a miscarriage 20 years ago and underwent in vitro fertilisation to conceive her two daughters, events recounted in a memoir in which she also explains her undying fury at Donald Trump.
“I felt like I failed because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them,” the former first lady said in an interview broadcast Friday on ABC’s Good Morning America to promote her upcoming memoir, Becoming. ‘’We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.”
Mrs Obama, 54, said she and Barack Obama underwent fertilisation treatments to conceive daughters Sasha and Malia, now 17 and 20.
“I realised that as I was 34 and 35,” the famously fit Mrs Obama said in excerpts from an ABC special set to air Sunday. “We had to do IVF.”
Mrs Obama writes in Becoming: “We were trying to get pregnant and it wasn’t going well. We had one pregnancy test come back positive, which caused us both to forget every worry and swoon with joy, but a couple of weeks later I had a miscarriage, which left me physically uncomfortable and cratered any optimism we felt.”
