Her full name is Malia Ann Obama.
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Growing up in one of the most public of settings has to be hard, but, according to her parents, Malia has spent a normal, happy time in the White House and is ready to take on the world after high school.
“I’m going to be wearing dark glasses”, Obama told a group of lunch companions during a visit to Detroit earlier this year. President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia was just 10 and longing for a promised puppy when her family moved into the White House.
Today is also Sasha’s 15th birthday. Her parents have said she will take a gap year, allowing her to enroll after her father’s term ends.
The 17-year-old Malia was brought up in a protected White House “bubble”.
The president has said his soccer- and flute-playing daughter was “one of my best friends”.
Her parents have hinted at Malia’s interest in filmmaking, and she’s completed short-term internships on television sets in NY and Los Angeles.
“Even in the era of cell phone cameras and YouTube videos and Facebook posts, she has managed to lead a remarkably dignified teenage existence”, said Jodi Kantor of the New York Times. Can you believe how quickly the Obama girls are growing up? Malia has had summer internships on the NY set of HBO’s “Girls” and in Los Angeles on a CBS sci-fi drama, since canceled, that starred Halle Berry.
Malia turns 18 on July 4. But the president won’t be moving far from his current address, as the first family plans to remain in D.C. until his youngest daughter Sasha finishes out her high school career.
At school, Malia played soccer and tennis, the flute and piano.
She was taught to drive by members of the Secret Service. And Malia is more than ready to leave, but I’m not ready for her to leave.
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It’s a day every schoolkid dreams of: high graduation. She’s marked some of life’s milestones in the past seven years, and another one comes Friday: graduation from high school.
