MICHELLE OBAMA

She was a First Lady – fearless and nonconforming – like none before her. Potato-sack races in the East Room anyone? Now with an intimate memoir topping a historic $16.7 million in global sales, a book tour that sold out 33 stadiums  worldwide and philanthropic passions including girls’ education and voter participation, Michelle Obama is rocking her White House ‘afterlife’. Her husband, former President Barack Obama, captures best what made 2019 Michelle’s year: “I’ve been basking in the reflected glow of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama for the better part of my life now, but somehow this past year, she’s raised it to another level. I couldn’t be prouder of her – or more excited for her – not because of the arenas she’s sold out, or the book sales records she’s shattered, but because of the example she’s setting. Her vulnerability,