Michelle Obama shares experience miscarrying, undergoing IVF treatment

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama revealed Friday that she had a miscarriage and underwent in vitro fertilization to conceive her two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

“I felt like I failed because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were, because we don’t talk about them,” Obama said during an interview Friday with ABC’s “Good Morning America. “We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken. That’s one of the reasons why I think it’s important to talk to young mothers about the fact that miscarriages happen.”

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