Book claims Barack had proposed another woman before Michelle

May 03, 2017 21:59

Their inspiring marriage may have been #relationshipgoals, but a new book claims he actually proposed to a different woman - twice - before he met Michelle and kept on seeing her for the first year of his relationship with FLOTUS.

Sheila Miyoshi Jager was almost entirely omitted from Obama's own biography, Dreams of My Father, where she was simply combined with his other exes into one character.

But according to Rising Star, by David J Garrow, Jager played a huge role in Obama's formative years. So much so that even after Barack met his wife-to-be Michelle, he kept seeing Jager on and off for at least a year, the book claims.

The couple were very much in love in the mid 1980s when they were living together in Chicago, according to Jager, who described them as being 'an island unto ourselves.'

Their relationship quickly progressed and in the winter of 1986, while visiting his girlfriend's parents, Barack popped the question, Jager she told Garrow.

But Jager's parents were concerned that she was too young - Jager was 23 and Obama was 25 - and refused his advances.

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