Michelle Obama's book 'Becoming' sold more than 1.4 million copies in its first week. Here are 4 things we learned.

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• Michelle Obama's book "Becoming" sold more than 1.4 million copies in its first week, her publisher Crown Publishing told the Associated Press.
• On its first day on sale, the former first lady's memoir sold more than 725,000 copies.
• In it, she opens up about personal details from couples therapy, a miscarriage and a delightful anecdote about how she and one of her daughters, Malia, snuck out of the White House to see the building lit up in rainbow colors in celebration of the US Supreme Court decision on marriage equality.

Michelle Obama's book "Becoming" sold more than 1.4 million copies in its first week, her publisher Crown Publishing told the Associated Press.

The former first lady's memoir chronicles her journey from childhood on the South Side of Chicago to post-White House days. On its first day the book sold more than 725,000 copies — beating out former Hillary Clinton's 2003 memoir "Living History," which according to the AP sold 600,000 copies in its first day.

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