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Michelle Obama got a surprise appearance at her book talk in Washington D.C. on Saturday night when former President Barack Obama came out with a bouquet of flowers. 

The crowd went wild when the former president, dressed casually in a jacket with no tie, walked out with pink roses for his wife.

'You won't get this at every show,' Michelle Obama told the cheering crowd at the packed Capital One Arena. 

'This is like when Jay Z comes out,' the former president joked, comparing himself to when the rapper came out during wife Beyonce's music tours. 

Michelle Obama talked to Valerie Jarrett about her book in DC on Saturday night

The former president who came out the tale end of his wife's 90 minute talk, discussed how the couple met at the Chicago law firm of Sidney & Austin, where she was his mentor. 

'She’s really tall and most of it is legs,' he said of his first impression of her.

His wife chided him: 'Children are here.'

The former president then kept his story kid-friendly. 'She was much cuter than I expected and very tall,' he said. 

He recalled she didn't want to date him because they worked together so he offered to quit his job.

'So basically I wore her down,' he said.

As he spoke a person in the crowd loudly yelled: 'We miss you.'

But the former president laughed off the compliment, which brought cheers and whistles from the crowd: 'What they miss are those long pauses,' he said of his speaking style.

The former first lady's talk, led by former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, began over an hour late as thousands of fan were left outside in the cold waiting in long lines to get inside the arena.

Dressed in a black pants suit, sparkling broach and stiletto heels, the former first lady came out to a standing ovation at the Capital One Arena, which is just a few blocks from the White House. 

Her talk was tailored to her heavily female audience, talking about the difficulties she faced in her childhood as the child as working class parents, as a black woman trying to get into the Ivy League and her struggles as a young mother to balance her personal priorities with raising her children.

It was mostly political free with most of the focus on her childhood, her career before becoming first lady, and raising her children.  

Fans tweeted photos of the long lines waiting to see Michelle Obama

Fans over flowed into the street and down the block

The street in front of the Capitol One Arena was shut down for the long lines of fans

Fans tweeted as they got close to the entrance of the talk, which began an hour late

The crowd responded warmly to her after waiting to hear her story. The Capital One Arena holds 20,000 and was nearly filled to capacity. 

The street in front of the venue was shut down early Saturday night as lines of fans bled into it and stretched down the block.

T-shirt vendors hawked wares with Obama's book title and photo while scalpers asked for any extra tickets to the conversation.

In her talk, Michelle Obama recounted how she was criticized by feminists for putting her focus on her children in her early months in the White House.

'There were women - who when I said I wanted to be mom in chief - there were women, feminists, who were critical of that,' the former first lady recalled during a talk in Washington D.C. on Saturday night promoting her new memoir 'Becoming.'

She talked about the changes daughters Malia and Sasha faced after Barack Obama was elected president.

'They have motorcades our kids, they still do, three car motorcades,' she said, recalling a photo that appeared in the media of Sasha with her face pressed to the car window, watching photographers take her picture on the way to school.

She spoke with former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett as part of her book tour

Melania Trump faced similar criticism when she became first lady 

Obama said her first priority was her children and making sure they were okay before she could begin working on issues she was interested in. 

'I had to make sure they will be okay before I could do anything for the rest of the country,' she said.

'I could be a great mom and do all these initiatives,' she said of her work with Let's Move, which focused on healthy eating, and Joining Forces, which helped military families.

First lady Melania Trump faced similar criticism when she chose to stay in New York for the first few months of her husband's presidency so their son Barron could finish out his school year. 

Michelle Obama never mentioned her successor or the current occupant of the Oval Office, but she did talk about how she insisted her husband leave work at 6:30 every night to have dinner with her and the girls.

She said she felt it was important for him to have down time where 'Putin wasn't invited to the dinner table and Syria wasn't invited in,' she said of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Syria.

She noted it was a time for them to talk as a family and for President Obama to catch up with his daughters.

'Malia was advocating him to save the tigers. That was one of her big issues for a long time,' Obama noted.

'Time can get out of hand for busy people and for busy men,' she said, adding 'I didn’t want my kids to grow up feeling, especially as girls, that life was about waiting for the man in the house.'

But she emphasized her husband's dedication to the country, saying he often worked until 1 o'clock or 2 o'clock in the morning. 

'But for a few hours he was a dad,' she said.

Rock music, flashing lights and a recorded intro from Obama, asking the crowd 'who are you becoming?' kicked off the event. 

Before the former first lady took the stage, young people, including students and a girl scout in uniform, introduced themselves to the crowd and talked about who they were becoming. 

The introduction video featured the former first lady reading bits of her memoir and interviews with former President Obama and her daughters Malia and Sasha 

'We focused ourselves of doing more than trending on twitter for a few hours,' she read as she talked about her Let's Move healthy eating initiative, in what could be seen as a shot at President Donald Trump's frantic tweeting habit. 

While fans waited for the former first lady, a video played highlighting her time in the White House, including her car karaoke with James Corden, promoting healthy eating, appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres show, and talking to Big Bird. 

Drawing especially large cheers where highlights of her past interviews with Oprah Winfrey and Conan O'Brien. 

Peppy inspiring quotes - like 'find your flame and keep it lit' - flashed on the screen along with photos of her with her husband, daughters, and mother. There were also photos of her talking with celebrities like Queen Elizabeth, Prince Harry, Alicia Keyes, and Robin Williams. 

Obama spoke to an adoring mostly female crowd as part of the book tour for her memoir 'Becoming.' The book sold more than 725,000 units on its first day of publication.  

It had a first printing of 1.8 million copies of the hardcover edition. Publisher Crown Publishing announced it would do a second print run of 800,000 hardcover copies, bringing it to a total of 2.6 million in print in the United States and Canada. 

Michelle Obama's book sold more than 725,000 units on its first day

T-shirts were for sale outside of the Capitol One Arena before her talk

Michelle Obama is on a media blitz as part of her 'Becoming' book tour

She will give a second talk in Washington D.C., where she and the former president are living while their youngest daughter Sasha finishes high school, on Sunday night.

The former first lady has been on a media blitz to promote her first book, which is Number One on Amazon.com's best seller list. She appeared on all three network morning shows, on the covers of 'Elle' and 'Essence,' and is on a nation wide book tour in concert venues where fans can buy tickets to see her questioned by celebrity pals like Oprah Winfrey and Sarah Jessica Parker. 

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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.

Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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