Michelle Obama's new memoir, "Becoming," is chock-full of never-before-heard stories from the former first lady's childhood and eight years in the White House.
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Michelle Obama's new memoir was one of Amazon's best-selling items on Cyber Monday. Here are 25 things we learned from 'Becoming.'
The autobiography, "Becoming," includes never-before-heard stories from the first lady's childhood to her years in the White House.
Obama is startlingly candid about a wide variety of topics, from her shock after learning that Donald Trump had won the 2016 presidential election to her being labeled an "angry black woman" by racists.
There are plenty of heartfelt moments too, such as the kindness that President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush showed her after her husband, President Barack Obama, was elected, and the time she and her daughter Malia snuck out of the White House.
It's these anecdotes that made the book a top-seller on Amazon for Cyber Monday.
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"Becoming," which Oprah Winfrey has already selected for her book club, is on sale wherever books are sold.
Here are some of the most interesting anecdotes Obama shares in the book:
- Her family's focus on education alienated Obama from her friends on the South Side of Chicago growing up.
- When she got to Princeton, she realized that the other students weren't smarter than her, as she had been led to believe.
- She described Barack's style as "challenged."
- Five-year-old Sasha was less than impressed with the White House
- Barack's favorite part of the tour was the gym
- Michelle's was seeing her future dressing room,
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- On her husband refusing the $100,000 in federal funds to move to and redecorate the White House:
- They blasted Beyoncé in the presidential limo
- On what it felt like to become the first black first lady:
- On how the custom Jason Wu gown she wore to her first inaugural ball made her feel ready to take on the role of first lady:
- Obama said she had to walk a "thin line" when it came to dressing.
- She noticed two things at her husband's first speech before a joint session of Congress.
- She found life in the White House patriarchal.
- On why she decided to start the White House garden:
- Bo and Sunny, the family's two dogs, acted as surrogates of sorts for Malia and Sasha.
- Michelle was extremely anxious on election night 2012.
- On why she decided to give a speech supporting Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention:
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- Her reaction when Donald Trump announced his candidacy, in a press conference during which he called Mexican immigrants "rapists":
- On Trump's "grab them by the p---y" tape:
- Obama said she was baffled at how women supported Trump in the 2016 election.
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