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Oprah sit down with Michelle Obama will air Thursday night on OWN as a prime time special.
According to a Press Release from the network, the media mogul’s in-depth conversation with the forever first lady about her new memoir Becoming will air as a primetime special “Oprah Winfrey Presents: Becoming Michelle Obama” on Thursday, November 15th at 8:00 PT/ET on OWN, with an extended unedited version available on “Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations” podcast starting the same day, with part two available on November 19. In addition, the full interview will be streamed on Oprah’s Facebook on Sunday, November 18 at 11:00 am ET/PT. The interview will also be featured in O, The Oprah Magazine on newsstands November 20, with behind-the-scenes content available on Oprahmag.com as well as globally across multiple Hearst Magazines’ titles, including the December cover of ELLE.
O, The Oprah Magazine and OWN also announced that it has chosen Obama’s book as its newest Oprah’s Book Club selection.
Becoming by Michelle Obama is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations, and whose story inspires us to do the same.
Embed from Getty ImagesOprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama sat down for a conversation about Mrs. Obama’s much-anticipated memoir “Becoming” at Hearst Tower in New York City. The two spoke in front of an audience that included a group of local, female high school students. The former First Lady, mother, wife, attorney and author discusses the life experiences that have shaped her. She reminisces about her humble childhood on the South Side of Chicago with her family she describes as “four corners of a square”: her mother Marian, her late father Fraser and her brother Craig. Mrs. Obama explains how her parents invested everything they had into her and her brother’s future. She discusses her years as an attorney and executive in Chicago and how she worked to balance the demands of her career and raising two daughters. Mrs. Obama candidly discusses some of the challenges she and Barack Obama faced during the early years of their marriage, including a stint in counseling. She also opens up about her years in the White House and the pressure of being the “first black family” to live there.
