Michelle Miller talks about new memoir "Belonging"
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- Опубліковано 10 бер 2023
- CBS Saturday Mornings co-host Michelle Miller sat down with Dana Jacobson to discuss her new memoir "Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love."
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What a fantastic daughter… it’s her mother’s loss not to acknowledge her and treasure her. Michelle is beautiful inside & out. Thank God her father and his mother stood up and held her close…. We need to recognize that we are all the same and look be one another.
I'm not sure we've gotten the whole story, that is what reading the book is about. You don't know that her mother doesn't acknowledge or treasure her; to me it does because the mom did what was best for the baby given it was 1967. The father was a married man, a prominent surgeon. The mom, a worker at the hospital, probably younger, lesser means. The woman will always be her mother, and relinquishing the position of motherhood was done, in what sounds like the best interest of all. Good on the father for taking the baby in, otherwise she would have ended up in foster care...etc. Deep dive.
@@MeMeDaVinci i8
Very nice looking lady
OMG! any mother would be so proud to claim you as their daughter.
Not her mother
@@ethanrobertson3008 HELLO! Michelle's mother rejected her because she didn't want to raise a black man's child, albeit a light- skinned child.
Her parents were not poor working stiffs; they were educated professional people who knew better.
Her father was a married. man, and her mother messed with said man.
@@ethanrobertson3008please take into consideration the era her mama came from. Let's be passionate about the circumstances of "the science of the time"
I know the era her mother came from. It was completely not accepted nor was it tolerated. Today it is tolerated but still not accepted.
Wow what an incredible story. Always loved her and now even more. Love this crew on CBS. They seem authentic and really care about each other.
Memoir is my favorite genre and I highly admire Michelle. I cannot wait to read her book! Such a great interview.
What a POWERFUL statement that she created the life that she wanted! My 2 year old granddaughter is biracial, mixed with African American and Hispanic. My son and daughter in law are AMAZING parents. My granddaughter is growing up with her village that is from both sides of the family. We've ALL become family and I wouldn't have it any other way. Michelle was her mother's secret, HOWEVER, God allowed things to happen as they did in order for her to become an example of strength and love to so many people. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY salute her! 🥰🙏🏾🙏🏾
What an incredible journey..You really never know what is happening behind doors..I like her beautiful and sincere smile,her professionalism and her empathy to touch hearts..! I am glad she decided to share her own pain,to create hope and healing for herself and others around her..She is a shining light for humanity in her own way..🙏🙏🙏♥️🌺🌸💖🔥😘
I’m in tears…. I feel a hole in my heart for her, not in a bad way , but in a way that tells me to tell my own story. It’s different from Michelle’s but significant. Thank you. Michelle. I never realized who her spouse was. What a small world. Blessings to you and your family, Michelle. Thank you.
Wonderful story! Thank you Michelle, stay graceful. 😊
wow! I am a child of an affair and my father feels he can not acknowledge me publicly because of his wife. He does not want to hurt her, and I honestly understand his reasoning but I have lived nearly 51 looking to belong.
Her mother missed her blessing. Don’t miss y’all blessings because they don’t look like you imagined they would.
Michelle is fine as all outdoors, also!
What a truly phenomenal woman. I only know Michelle from these CBS segments; but I got such a warmth from her. Her story illuminates why✨
Wow!! I went to Palisades too. Go Michelle Miller!! Very inspirational story.
My grandbabies are mixed, they are loved in so many ways. They are a blessing to me their big mama, my daughter their mama, my other daughter their small mama, my mother their grandmama....their dad, granddad, bigdad my husband, their small dad my son.....Michelle thank you for being such a wonderful beautiful woman❤
I'm so moved, wow.
I listened to Belonging via Audible. It was phenomenal and I admire you for telling your story. I have so much respect for you. Blessings to Michelle and her family! 💕
What an outstanding story!!!
This was such a beautiful way to talk about the book and Michelle Miller's life. Thank you, Michelle, for sharing. And thank you, CBS, for recognizing how valuable her experience is.
This is so sad but too common. God blessed Michelle with Big Momma. Her mom and that family’s loss.
Her momma should be proud of her girl Her momma don’t deserve that love. She has an amazing kid
I have enormous amount of respect and admiration for Michelle, so I just can’t wait to read the book
👏“Acceptance and belonging matter they matter.” Such power words Michelle Miller said at the end about how we’re all a race of “human race” and accepting of our differences and yes we all need to “get OVER IT. Get over it.” I like her even more.🤗
Can't wait to read her story
Wow!!!.....This was a great interview. She is a extremely stong sister with a deep sense of pride. What i like about her story is that she doesn't come off as bitter but really wants to help people find thier own happiness with this same topic.
CBS news just gives you so much more. It doesn’t feel packaged but information and raw. I love this. Congrats, Michelle.
She is my favorite anchor on CBS her and Nate she should be the main anchor instead of Gayle she is a real journalist. Bravo to hear for writing her book and letting people into her life I know it wasn't easy but still bravo to her.
So you're saying Gayle isn't a real journalist? She worked her way thru the trenches as well. Why dim someone else's light cuz u like someone else? Not knocking your preference but just curious.
Michelle, glad you were able to write this. I have also been a "secret" for my mother all of my life. Belonging is an appropriate title. Good luck in your endeavors.
Beautiful memoir
Can't wait to read this. Thanks, Michelle! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I love this lady so so so so so so much! She's gorgeous she's smart she's brilliant she's compassionate she's empathetic. she's everything that we should all aspire to be. I love when I see people that have overcome things in their life that would put others into an alley with a needle in their arm. I am so proud of you for Rising above and I am so grateful that the powers-that-be saw fit to put you in the category of not only Rising above, but flourishing. I'm sorry for those that are in the other category that could not overcome these types of things. Hopefully there are few of us that will see this story and will learn to come that way.... into the light that you have shed, instead of the darkness that has been cast upon us. Extra special shout-out to your big mama that raised you! I love her yet I have never met her.
"I am my mother's secret" - I so relate to having your identity unfairly designed by something you inherited but did not necessarily choose
It’s HER time!
Awesome Story Michelle, 😢❤🙏
Michelle Miller has a unique opportunity to explore, to express her personal feelings and possibly, to help others on their respective journeys. It has been said: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mine is a variation of her story. Misunderstandings abound. Assumptions have been made. Bridges burned. There may still be a happy ending. One can hope.
I've always been a fan of Michelle's work now that I know her full story I am in complete awe of her as a human being.
It looks like an interesting memoir. I wrote a memoir a few years ago. Good luck!
Michelle I have so enjoyed your work. Your warmth permeates all you do. BTW you moderated the best OUTLANDER interview I have ever seen!
Love this! Thank you! Your bravery will be rewarding! ❤️
Like a breath of fresh air... ❤️
Can’t wait to get the book she’s such a beautiful lady
Thank you, Michelle! I can't wait to read your book. I can relate because I'm in the exact same boat as you.
I relate to this story more than I like to admit. "We are human beings. Get over it!" Can't wait to read it
❤So proud of you, Michelle. You truly have come a long way. We love you always . You lovely, crazy, wonderful daughter. 💕😉🥰
Lovelovelove
What a beautiful human being, inside and out!. So much respect for her!
Michelle is an AMAZING WOMAN.
You are very very beautiful and she missed ALOT out of your life. Am glad she saw the grown version of you and she will never be at peace when she watches you on TV and how well you have done in your life . Thank you for sharing. ❤
Haters going to hate, you just have to positively demonstrate.
Omg this story… I’m crying.
Michelle is simply the most amazing woman ever.
There are a few things that are interesting about this...(from the perspective of a mixed race person)
1) She says her mother was "white presenting" Hispanic. Hispanic is a complicated term, because although I describe it as Black and/or indigenous people colonized by Spain, there are other views about what this means. For instance, Jessica Alba is described as Hispanic, but according to DNA analysis, much to her chagrin, she actually is white (Iberian=Spaniard). This means it is quiet possible that the reporter's mother was actually white, and without a DNA test this isn't possible to discern.
2) Her father, by the reporter's own admission, was "proud" of his union with a "white presenting" woman and even stepped outside of his marriage. Within Black and brown circles colorism is discussed, but in this story and in her book I knew it would not be touched. From her words I can surmise that she is stating that her father was proud of this relationship with a "white presenting" woman probably due to his own internal self hatred. This is also expressed in the fact that he was proud of this relationship even though the person who he produced a child with failed to acknowledge him or the Black child this relationship produced. So, he loved a woman who did not love him or his child back -- sounds like self hatred!
That's deeeeep.
So true. I understand he had to tell Michelle a little white lie in claiming their love for each other but it seems he was more in love with a woman who did not love him or the child they produced.
Very true! Her father clearly hated himself and a huge inferiority complex. Probably had something to do with being a college educated, White Collar, Upper Middle Class professional at that time.
Hispanic is white, plain and simple, indigenous history is called pre-Hispanic.
Most likely, but it also could be the fact that the mother did not want to lose any members of her family or family friends, especially if she's white Hispanic herself. I've heard in other nueces, clips that her mother was proud of her and I guarantee you. There's a part of the mother that wants to have a relationship with her but doesn't want to deal with The Fallout from the family and the present times especially for her own children or Spouse
We are to take joy in the differences. An unbelievably beautiful mosaic
i read your story michelle miller and i cried with you....be at peace as you are blessed.,,i hope your mother snaps out of her fog
What a powerful story.
Why be ashamed now. Michelle is wonderful.
Mixed are the most beautiful tbh! I am so jealous!
Michelle is absolutely gorgeous!! What a strong woman!
Great story.
What a beautiful inside and outside lady 💗
You go ma’am!!!🎉
Her old man was sadly a ladies man. She looks amazing for 56. She fine. Amazing person
I’m currently reading Michelle’s memoir and it’s amazing! Her story is very interesting and I appreciate her sharing it with us. She’s such a phenomenal person. Bravo, Michelle!🎉
I love ALLL the Big Mamas in the world. Micelle said when her Fatherr’s Mama saw her as a child -- Big Mama said “that’s My Baby! Big Mama’s of the world are the true Mothers in history
I luv this story
Im going read her book.😅😅😅
She is awesome.
This pain makes you see others more deeply, more truthfully. You had many mothers and your bio mother was just that. Her loss.
I remember her on WWLTV in New Orleans.
It always bothers me that the absent parent can still hold a special place in a child's heart knowing that parent discarded them and couldn't be bothered. They don't count anymore, they don't deserve you.
That's unfair. You need to take the deep dive on this one: he was a *married man*, prominent surgeon and it was 1967. The mother, probably younger, lesser means, most likely single(?) with a family unit with strong social/religious mores. And, it was 1967. It was a decision not made lightly, the mother had nine months to think about it. Think if the father didn't take her in; the foster system would have another abandoned child to account for. When you are in the same situation, you can tell your version.
@@MeMeDaVinci Agree with you. The affair may have played into the decision more than skin color. I could see this as a complicated situation with individuals that share the same ethnicity and skin color because children born from affairs with married people complicate so many things. Maybe the mother was also in a relationship or knew her family would not be accepting. We have no idea of the different variables involved. She grew up with love and support. Some kids grow up in homes with biological parents who don’t give their children either of those things. I am not saying I don’t understand the void in her life, but I am saying so many people have painful childhood experiences that impact them into adulthood. In this case, she had role model adults step in to show her love and support and build her up.
Michelle's mother was not a woman of lesser means; she was a hospital administrator.. They were both educated professional people who knew better.
Love child❤
Wow, she gets more beautiful as she ages.
That is so true.
Heartbreak and hope create the foundation for the best stories. Her mother had to do what was best for her own life, sad as it may be/sound to the rest of us.
belonging is as you say critical
blessings
I notice that it is always the mother side (mostly white) of the family that do not accept biracial black children. Michelle story brought back memories of the high school that I attended. All of the mixed raced black kids that I went to school with had been adopted by a black family or the biracial child has been cared for by the black father as the only parent.
HA! Tell that to Alicia Keyes, Halle Berry and Barack Obama.
You can't say "always". I've seen mixed kids raised by their white mothers because the Black fathers skipped out.
@@VeeFosteror they give them up for adoption.
Wow. I had no idea that Michelle had such a story to tell. I have never seen her as anything but who she is: Michelle Miller. It never occurred to me that she was black and Hispanic. I only thought, "That is a really beautiful woman with lots of intelligence and journalistic talent. (She also has a beautiful voice.) Una donna brava!"
Wow, I am intrugued. She is right there are many, including myself, with similar stories.
I know that's right Michelle Miller!!@
We co work together we see each other every day why not talk to one another acknowledgement speaks volumes
Great story but hurtful in a way. Glad she is strong, intelligent and beautiful woman. "Get over that "phrase that people cannot accept differences. Variety and changes are part of living life. She will continually live out loud!!
How can I buy the book?
With money or a credit card.
There is really A LOT of confusion behind the word HISPANIC. Hispanic MEANS Spanish Speaking. Spanish speaking COMES from EUROPE. Her mother was not PRESENTING as WHITE. She was a WHITE HISPANIC. Slavery started in Latin America. White Hispanics brought Africans to Latin America LONG before the British did.
Being rejected by one’s mother can’t be easy, but she was probably better off.
I have a similar story but unfortunately both of my parents died prematurely
Watching this made me misty 😢❤
Michelle Miller - you work for CBS and in 2012 did an interview with Greta Zimmer who recently died, you know the VE day Dental Nurse and the kiss ? Where can we get a copy of the interview, unedited please?
I'm 100% certain she got picked on for likely being the prettiest girl in the class.... Lots of Jealous types.
True. She probably got picked on because she was light-skinned & there's a perception that light-skinned girls think they're all that.
Also, She was probably considered not Black enough.
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Amen! Get over it!
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I can soon identify with this. Lord so many revelations
I wonder how her mother is living her life day to day seeing this and having this kind of secret
I think she's in a family that probably still believes in the old saying. You stay married within the race and have children within the race and are red. And heard that she was on another show, basically saying that her mother is proud of her and to this day, the rest of our family doesn't know period. When I tell you that old school way of thinking is so deep that even today, the older generation who may have children of outside races do not want. To deal with it because then it will bring up a whole. Another can of worms here period.
It's her mother's loss, she's beautiful smart and successful!
Pali High? She went to school with Nelson...
One more person pushing a memoir. MY GOD!
Its not knowing who of family belonging ..its my right to bd what i eNt and the things i know i am suplosef to do will i be accepted am i belonging in that....accepted that in my life belongs...going pass the pain of the past abd what didnt happen feeling like u losy out...the part about creating what u wznt now is powerful
I Haven't Read The Book ...I Will Buy The Book...I Was Raised By A Mother Who Kept A Child from An Affair With Her Church Pastor ..A Married Man With Children...I Thought My Mother Never Lied ..Until I Was 25 & My Older Sister Was 29....What My Mother Said To Me For The Next 45 Years Of Her Life .......Was I Should Have Given Her Away!!!!!....We Tell Girls Adoption Is A Wonderful Option...People Are Lining Up To Love Babies Unconditionally....We Tell Girls It's A Gift 🎁 To Leave Your Baby On A Door Step!!...When You Give A Child Away You Are Giving Your Grandchildren Away Too!!!..Perhaps Your Mother Understood Exactly What She Was Doing & Doesn't Have Any Regrets!!!..My Mother Regretted Keeping Her Child 🙄 .....I Loved My Sister with All My Heart ❤ ..........Don't Lie To Children About Their Biological Parents!!!!!...It's Poison Parenting 😕 😪 😐 😔
Wow her story it's quite special. I knew she looks mixed, but didn't know that secret. Mixed race people can tell the world how it feels to be part of multiple races 🙏 4 🇺🇸
I couldn't agree more...
Humans should get over accepting other humans without hate...
And that same rule of acceptance & respect should apply to ALL sentient beings as well...
So...talking about being shunned...while wearing the skin of a murdered being, & salivating over eating their flesh, is the epitome of hypocrisy.
So...get over that too, Michelle!...Just GET OVER IT!
A parent that wont provide their child with rudimentary acknowledgement is wild....
I guess her mom might have been Hispanic and White. But still, that is cruel to not acknowledge her.
I don't know why she's so protective of her mother. If my mother did me like that, I'd kick her to the curb.
@@VeeFosterI think she's holding out. Hope before her mother leaves this world to 1 day Acknowledge her as her child to her family and meet her grandchildren in great-grandchildren. Not to mention you gotta wonder if her family will really accept Michelle period. The reason why I say that is because if the mother is still that way. After half a century, that means that there are still family members who are alive from her generation who failed that way, and she doesn't want face to blow back or any type of negative reactions.
These two could make a fortune in the WWE !
Racism and ignorance is painful 💔💔💔💔
Truth!