Michelle Obama covers Elle US December 2018

Unveil Michelle Obama's candid chat with Oprah Winfrey, her stylish Dior ensemble, and a sneak peek into her memoir 'Becoming', in Elle US' issue.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is the cover star of Elle US, issue of December 2018. Promoting her much awaited and anticipated memoir 'Becoming, the former First Lady, Michelle Obama', the sophisticated lady is photographed by Miller Mobley. Clad in Dior on the cover, styled by Meredith Koop, Michelle Obama flaunts a pleated white dress with a leather corset bodice, and gets candid with Oprah Winfrey in an interview. Michelle discusses her struggles with her husband, Former President Barack Obama, the threats to their children's lives being in the world's eyes, and her promise to be a force for good.

On Donald Trump’s birther claims: “In order for my children to have a normal life, even though they had security, they were in the world in a way that we weren’t. To think that some crazed person might be ginned up to think my husband was a threat to the country’s security; and to know that my children, every day, had to go to a school, and soccer games, parties, and travel; to think that this person would not take into account that this was not a game—that’s something that I want the country to understand. I want the country to take this in, in a way I didn’t say out loud, but I am saying now. It was reckless, it put my family in danger, and it wasn’t true. And he knew it wasn’t true.”

On going to counseling with her husband: “It was about me exploring my sense of happiness. What clicked in me was that I need support and I need some from him. But I needed to figure out how to build my life in a way that works for me.”

On the pressure of being the first black family: “We felt the pressure from the minute we started to run. First of all, we had to convince our base that a black man could win. It wasn’t even winning over Iowa. We first had to win over black people. Because black people like my grandparents—they never believed this could happen. They wanted it for us. But their lives had told them, “No. Never.” Hillary was the safer bet for them, because she was known. Opening hearts up to the hope that America would put down its racism for a black man—I think that hurt too much. It wasn’t until Barack won Iowa that people thought, Okay. Maybe so.”