Malia Obama, who has spent her entire life surrounded by politics, decided to speak up and participate in protests for racial justice. “While Malia and Sasha found their ways to participate in the demonstrations and activism you’ve seen from young people this summer, without any prompting from Michelle and me, on their initiative,” Barack Obama told People in 2021, recalling how his daughters became involved in Black Lives Matter protests.
Together with Sasha, Malia lives in an apartment in Los Angeles. In an interview with British Vogue, their mother said that Malia and Sasha Obama “couldn’t be more different” at times.
However, despite these differences, the sisters are very close and have even gone to live together. The Daily Mail first spotted them in Los Angeles at the same time in January 2022, which sparked rumors that Sasha had moved to the West Coast to join her sister. An insider source hinted that Sasha may have even transferred from her course at the University of Michigan to the University of Southern California.
Malia Obama, unlike many young women her age, has no public social media accounts. Donald Glover has praised Malia’s writing abilities. Following her work with Lena Dunham on the TV series Girls, Malia Obama was hired by talented actor and musician Donald Glover to write the script for his Beyoncé-inspired Amazon Prime series Swarm. The series, in which Dominic Fishback plays the role of an obsessed fan who goes on a killing spree, premiered in March 2023.
Two habits of Malia Obama are opposite in their effects on the body: smoking and working out. In his memoir Promised Land, Barack Obama credits a judgmental look from young Malia with inspiring him to give up the unhealthy practice of taking smoking breaks while in the White House. And in 2016, Malia was photographed wearing a T-shirt that read “Smoking Kills.” This came weeks after she was spotted at Lollapalooza with a “suspicious cigarette,” as Page Six described it. In other words, it didn’t appear to have nicotine in it.
But when a paparazzo snapped some shots of Malia smoking a real cigarette (not the suspicious-looking kind) in October 2023, there was evidence that she had also picked up a healthier habit. The member of Generation Z had a fancy Hydro Flask bottle under her arm, so at least she was trying to stay hydrated.