Former First Lady Michelle Obama is currently on a massive book tour promoting her new memoir, Becoming. People are shelling out up to $3,000 for tickets—that's how in demand she is.
Everyone who scored a seat at her latest stop in Washington, D.C., was treated to a special surprise guest: her husband, former President Barack Obama. Naturally the crowd went nuts when moderator (and longtime friend and advisor to the couple) Valerie Jarrett brought him out. And the man formerly known as POTUS did not disappoint.
He arrived on stage with a bouquet of pink roses for his wife and called himself the Jay Z to Michelle's Beyoncé—which, frankly, is kind of spot on. "This is like, you know when Jay Z comes out during the Beyonce concert?… Like, 'Crazy in Love'?" Obama said. "It's the same thing. It's just a little sample to enhance the concert." He even did a few bars of the song.
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Obama said he'd been listening to the talk upstairs and joked that there were a couple things he would "correct," to which his wife replied, "You don't have to do that here. It's my book. It's my version of reality."
Jarrett also asked him what about Michelle captured his heart when they first met working together at a Chicago law firm. Obama said she was "one of a kind," strong and honest, and someone he knew he could always count on. He also said he knew that if she was the mother of his children, their offspring would be "extraordinary."
The former First Lady is very open in the book about areas of the couple's private life that we've not gotten a glimpse of until now. And from sharing their struggles with infertility (eventually leading to daughters Sasha and Malia being born via in vitro fertilization) to revealing that they use a couples counselor when necessary to keep their marriage strong or telling how they embarrassed Malia on her way to prom, their appearance on stage together further proves that the couple isn't so different from lots of others we all know.
