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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
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Malia Obama Drops Her Famous Last Name Professionally, Opting to Go by This Moniker Instead

Malia Obama at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

When your parents are as well-known and history making as Barack and Michelle Obama, it would be difficult for anyone to live in that shadow. The couple’s eldest daughter, Malia, has grown up in the glare of the spotlight—her father was elected President when she was just 10 years old—and, as she pursues her own career ambitions, is apparently deciding to use a stage name, E! News reports.

Keen to carve her own path and not rest on the high-powered Obama name, Malia has chosen to go by Malia Ann, her first name and middle name, for her newest film project, The Heart.

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