Washington: Michelle Obama says she felt “lost and alone” after suffering a miscarriage 20 years ago and underwent in vitro fertilization to conceive her two daughters.”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.”
“We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.” Michelle Obama, 54, said she and Barack Obama underwent fertilisation treatments to conceive daughters Sasha and Malia, now 17 and 20.
“We had to do IVF.” The revelations come ahead of Tuesday’s release of Mrs Obama’s memoir “Becoming,” in which she writes openly about everything from growing up in Chicago to confronting racism in public life and becoming the country’s first black First Lady. — AP
