VIDEO: FLOTUS Shout Out for NH Breast Cancer Survivor

Nothing like an official shout out from the First Lady in front of hundreds of people.

But when Michelle Obama asked a crowd at Southern New Hampshire University to give Meredith Bohn a round of applause, it wasn't just because Bohn supports the president for reelection. It was truly an affirmation of Bohn's grit and triumph over adversity, after she shared her story of surviving breast cancer, despite several hurdles, with the crowd.

The  first lady says she continues to be inspired by Bohn, whom she met Aug. 2 on the campaign trail at SNHU, in a new blog post on iVote on iVillage.com:

Meredith Bohn is a strong woman. She’s an Army veteran and a small business owner – and when the going gets tough, Meredith gets tougher. That’s what she showed in May of 2008, when, in the space of a few weeks, Meredith was diagnosed with breast cancer and her husband lost his job. Their family had COBRA coverage for a few months, but after that, they knew they would be uninsured. Luckily, just as their insurance was about to run out, her husband found another job – one with health insurance.

“It was really critical for us to keep that coverage in place,” Meredith said. “I knew that I would have had a preexisting condition and nobody would have helped me.”

Read her post in full on iVillage: