Michelle Obama: Life After the White House

Michelle Obama is portrayed as a person raised with high standards and expectations despite modest means. She says she always did her best in school so as not to let her parents down, she preaches the empowerment that comes with good education. She says she pursued that even though some people told her she wouldn't make it to an elite university, due to her social class or skin color. Her mother treated her and her brother with respect, even as young kids, allowing them to have a voice. Michelle passed on those values, brought her mother to the White House to help raise her own daughters. Though she's described as "civic minded," she's also said to have hated politics, so remaking herself to fulfill expectations as first lady was a "sacrifice," but one she was willing to make because Barack was so singular a person. She describes Barack as a person of "character, conviction, decency, and grace," and both Obamas embody integrity.

The Obamas hug and kiss. We see a plaque on a Chicago street commemorating where they first kissed while eating ice cream on a date, and Barack Obama said the kiss "tasted like chocolate." There's some description of the Obamas' courtship, some of the highs and lows of married life, their experience with marriage counseling, miscarriage, and IVF treatments described in Michelle Obama's autobiography. At a public event, Michelle Obama jokes the "Black kids" at Princeton weren't interested in drinking beer because they just wanted to dance and "maybe do a little somethin' somethin'."

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