Inside the Life of Michelle Obama

Her world took another drastic change when Barack Obama became an overnight political rock star and the focus of attention for so many women.

"She says that you know there is a trust between them and if there weren't, they wouldn't have much of a marriage," Mundy said. "She said it's revelation that people like Barbara Walters seek him out and come up to them at red-carpet events and introduce themselves."

Through it all, however, Mundy said Michelle Obama remembered what she learned through experience in Princeton.

"She has said in numerous venues that she hopes that the campaign, if it achieves nothing else, achieves broadening America's sense of who African-Americans are," she said.