Expect a Laid-Back Michelle Obama on Her Upcoming Book Tour

The former First Lady looks relaxed and ready to go ahead of her Becoming tour.

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Michelle Obama is getting ready for her book tour. The former First Lady is publishing her new memoir, Becoming, on November 13; the book promises details of Obama’s life story and her years in the White House. This means not only do we get at least one more Obama coffee-table book to help inspire pre-Trump nostalgia, but we also get two straight months of a Michelle Obama book tour. And from what her makeup artist, Carl Ray, has posted on Instagram, it’s going to be a laid-back, fun two months. Remember laid-back fun?

Ray’s photo shows Obama posing with him while wearing a waffle-textured white bathrobe, tied at the waist. She’s pursing her lips, makeup flawless, hair curled, hamming it up. And it looks like she’s just getting started on the social-media push. On Thursday, she tweeted the lineup for the 10-city tour, which includes two separate stops in both Brooklyn and D.C.

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In an interview at the American Library Association in June, Obama shared that she wrote this memoir to be able to tell a story that doesn’t often receive recognition.

“If I were to describe the book, it’s a rehumanization effort, because for me, a black woman from a working-class background, to have the opportunity to tell her story is interestingly rare. . . . It’s sort of like people think I’m a unicorn, it’s like I don’t exist, like people like me don’t exist. And I know that there are so many people in this country, in this world, who feel like they don’t exist because their stories aren’t told, or they think their stories aren’t worthy of being told.”

Obama has been out of the White House for nearly two years, and in that time, she’s been able to act a lot more like the relaxed human in the photo above.

“Now I have a door and a doorbell, and people actually trip out when I come to my door and I open it,” Obama told Ellen DeGeneres in January. And pretty soon, folks, she’ll be coming to a city near you.