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 on Friday on ABC’s Good Morning America breakfast show. She told the television station: “We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.”

Obama, 54, said she and her husband Barack Obama had fertilization treatments to conceive daughters Sasha and Malia, now 17 and 20. “I realized that as I was 34 and 35, we had to do IVF,” she said in excerpts from an ABC special set to air on Sunday. “We had to do IVF.” The revelations come before Tuesday’s release of Obama’s memoir Becoming.

In the new book she criticises Donald Trump for “encouraging wingnuts and kooks” and 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.(theguardian)…[+]