Becoming! Michelle Obama’s Memoir Sells Over 10 Million Copies….Becomes The Most Successful, Best-Selling Memoir In HISTORY

Michelle Obama‘s memoir is on course to become the most popular autobiography to date, according to its publisher. Becoming, first published just five months ago, has already sold more than 10 million copies, Bertelsmann said.“We believe that these memoirs could well become the most successful memoir ever,” said Thomas Rabe, chief executive of the German firm. The firm paid $60m (£48m) in 2017 for the rights to the book alongside that of former US President Barack Obama. Mr Obama’s book is yet to be published. Bertelsmann owns a 75% stake in Obama publisher Penguin Random House. Michelle Obama’s book, which explores her experience from childhood, her work, motherhood and her time in The White House, has been praised for its universal appeal across genders and ages. In it, she reveals difficulties in her marriage with Barack, disclosing details of how the couple suffered a miscarriage and later used in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to conceive both children, Malia and Sasha. The 54-year-old also criticises the current US President, Donald Trump, writing that she can “never forgive” him for “putting my family’s safety at risk” over his championing of the “birther” theory that her husband was not born in the US and thus was not a legitimate president of the US.Photo Credit: Getty