Put your hands together for ...an Obama in pyjamas
THE event was billed as ‘an intimate conversation with Michelle Obama’.
And as the former US first lady strolled onstage in a loose silk trouser suit, her fans may well have thought they’d been invited to a pyjama party.
Mrs Obama – more often seen in glamorous dresses at black-tie events – slipped into something more comfortable to promote her memoir Becoming in Paris. She teamed her orange-striped suit with open-toe heels and hoop earrings.
The mother of two, 55, spoke of her ‘disbelief’ at the blaze in the city’s Notre Dame cathedral.
She said: ‘The security driver, we were en route somewhere, and he said “Notre Dame is burning” and I thought “Oh you must be joking”.’ She went on to reveal that Paris was the first foreign city she ever visited.
Mrs Obama’s memoir is the first in a two-book deal that she and former president Barack made with Penguin Random House in 2017 for a reported £46million.
The next stop on her book tour will be Amsterdam, followed by further appearances in Canada and back home in the US.