New biography delves into Obama's life, reveals past relationships

A new biography on former president Barack Obama claims that he twice proposed marriage to a woman he was dating before Michelle.
    
David Garrow, author of the new book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, identifies the woman as Sheila Miyoshi Jager, who met the budding politician in the mid-’80s when he was a community organizer in Chicago.
    
Jager, of Dutch and Japanese ancestry, told Garrow that Obama first popped the question in 1986, but her parents were against it because they felt she was too young.
    
According to the author, Obama fell for Michelle after their first year in law school but he was still occasionally seeing Jager.
    
He added that Michelle is the first black woman Obama dated.