I Conceived My Daughters through IVF after Suffering Miscarriage, Michelle Obama Says

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has shared details of what she went through in her journey to motherhood. 

In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, Michelle says she was forced to use In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) to conceive her two daughters; Malia and Sasha. 

This, she says, was after realizing that age was catching up with her, having had a miscarriage earlier.

“I felt like I failed because I did not know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them,” she says. “I realized that as I was 34 and 35, we had to do IVF,” she adds.

IVF is a process of fertilization where an egg is fused with the sperm outside the body. The process involves monitoring and stimulating a woman’s ovulatory process, removing an ovum from the woman’s ovaries and letting sperm fertilize it in a laboratory.

The 54-year-old indicates that her decision to open up on her past life experiences is motivated by the desire to help other women going through such difficulties.

“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…we sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we are broken,” she notes.

The revelations come ahead the launch of her memoir dubbed “Becoming,” on November 13, where she opens up on growing up in Chicago and confronting racial discrimination.