Michelle & Barack Obama Met With A Marriage Counselor 'A Handful Of Times'

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Even the Obamas have had their ups-and-downs. 

While chatting with People about her forthcoming memoir, Becoming, Michelle Obama revealed that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, sought help from a marriage counselor at one point during their marriage. "Because we’re role models, it’s important for us to be honest and say, if you’re in a marriage and there are times you want to leave, that’s normal — because I felt that way," she told the magazine. "There were definitely times when I wished things were different,” she said when asked if she ever thought about leaving Barack completely, “but I don’t think I ever thought, 'I’m just checking out of this.'"

In her book, Michelle admits that she and Barack met with a counselor "a handful of times," per the AP. "What I learned about myself was that my happiness was up to me and I started working out more, I started asking for help, not just from him but from other people," she said in a recent interview on Good Morning America. "I stopped feeling guilty." As for how marriage counseling affected her marriage, Michelle said it gave them a safe space to disagree. "Marriage counseling, for us, was one of those ways where we learned to talk out our differences," she explained.

In her new memoir, Michelle also discusses her issues with fertility. The former first lady revealed that she suffered a miscarriage when she and Barack started trying to have kids 20 years ago. "I felt lost and alone, and I felt like I failed," she said in an interview with Robin Roberts. "I didn't know how common miscarriages were, because we don't talk about them. We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we're broken." Adding, "I think it's the worst thing that we do to each other as women, not share the truth about our bodies, how they work and how they don't work."

The couple eventually turned to In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) to conceive their now 20-year-old and 17-year-old daughters, Malia and Sasha, respectively. "The biological clock is real because egg production is limited,” she told Robin. “And I realized that as I was 34 and 35 ― we had to do IVF."

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