Michelle Obama will soon embark on a tour for her highly anticipated, newly completed memoir, ‘Becoming’.
“Hey everybody, it’s Michelle Obama … It’s a big day for me because I am finished with my book … I can’t wait to share it with the world,” the former first lady, 54, said in an Instagram video on Wednesday. “Over this time that I’ve been out of the White House, I’ve had time to think and reflect for the first time in a long time and I spent some time really thinking about the people and the stories and the experiences that have shaped me and helped me become the person I am today, and I am proud of what I’ve created. I’m proud because it’s candid, it’s totally and utterly me. So I’m also a little frightened because it’s candid and honest and open, but I can’t wait to share it with the world,” she went on to say.
Plans for her first book were announced earlier this year, as the former first lady follows in the footsteps of husband Barack Obama in terms of book writing. Michelle Obama is said to have written the memoir detailing the experiences that have shaped her, and finding her voice as a girl from Chicago’s South Side.
Obama also posted a heartfelt caption teasing some of the personal experiences she looks forward to sharing with readers. “This fall [spring down under], I’d like to share that fuller story with all of you on my book tour,” she wrote. “It’s the story of my humdrum plainness, my tiny victories, my lasting bruises, my ordinary hopes and worries. It’s the story of who I am, truly, and I’m so proud of it — blemishes and all.”
Becoming will be released on November 13th 2018, and will also mark the start of her US book tour.
“I hope that this tour will inspire others to reflect upon and share their own stories — all the joys and sorrows, all the scars and renewals — so that together, we can better recognize that each of us, in our own way, is in a constant process of becoming,” Obama said in a press release on Wednesday.
