“Overcoming Obstacles: Michelle Obama’s Journey to Becoming First Lady”

Michelle Obama is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017,
Michelle was raised in Chicago’s south side by her family of four. They lived in a little upstairs flat in a bungalow owned by her great-aunt. She and her brother, who was 21 months older, slept in the living room with a sheet dividing the space. Their family had some difficult times financially, even though they were not living in poverty. Her dad worked at a water-cleaning plant for Chicago, and her mom was a stay-at-home parent after working as a secretary for Spiegel’s.
Michelle finished from Princeton and Harvard Law School. At first, she worked at Sidley Austin and met her husband. Then she worked in nonprofits and as the associate dean at the University of Chicago. Later, she was vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center. She married Barack in 1992 and they have two girls.
She tells about feeling put in a box as an angry Black woman by some media after she got into politics. She says, “It felt like there was a fake me causing trouble out there, a lady I kept hearing about but didn’t know—a too-big, too-strong, ready-to-take-power Godzilla of a political wife” —-~Becoming Michelle Obamas memior) Theses were some of the obstacles she faced as beging the First Lady racism, and begin stereotyped.