Barack and Michelle Obama's Daughters: Meet Malia and Sasha

We watched them age before our very eyes, but now, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama‘s kids are all grown up and are taking the world by storm! The 44th President of the United States and the former first lady are the proud parents of their two daughters, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama.

After leaving the White House, the girls went on to pursue their own passions in college. While sending your child off to college is hard, the Becoming author revealed that she was so excited for her kids to embark on their college experience.

In an interview in November 2018, Michelle admitted that sending Malia off to Harvard University in 2017 wasn’t as hard as she thought.

“I don’t feel like she’s away,” Michelle told People of her eldest child at the time. “I feel like she’s off on her next adventure, so I’m excited about her. I don’t need my children to make me happy. I had them so that they’d be happy.”

The proud mom also opened up about new milestones in her daughters’ lives during an April 2022 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. After reminiscing about memories they made together before her kids moved out of their family home, Michelle revealed that Malia and Sasha have boyfriends.

“They loved the Jonas Brothers,” she said. “Now they are bringing grown men home. Before it was just pop bands. Now they have boyfriends and real lives.”

Barack also commented on his children’s love lives in a May 2021 episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden. In the same appearance, he revealed why he did not think Sasha and Malia would follow in his footsteps to pursue careers in public service.

“First of all, them as teenagers having Secret Service guys follow them when they were going out on dates, I think probably has shut down their interest in public service,” he explained. “They still have PTSD from guys talking into their wrist microphones with glasses as they’re trying to go to a music concert.”

One thing that the Hawaii native made clear is that he will always support his kids no matter what career paths they decide on.

“They have turned into just exceptional young women,” he continued. “I could not be prouder of them, not just because they’re smart and accomplished, but they’re just kind people. They don’t have an attitude.”

Keep scrolling to meet Barack and Michelle’s two daughters.

Malia Ann Obama

Barack and Michelle’s eldest daughter was born on July 4, 1998. Her life changed forever when her dad was elected President of the United States when she was just 10 years old. Throughout her father’s two terms as president from 2009 to 2017, Malia attended school in Washington, D.C. — where she loved to play soccer, dance and participated in the theatre and drama department.

In 2016, Malia graduated high school and spent the summer working as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain. She also secured an internship with disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in early 2017. After taking a gap year following high school, Malia was accepted into Harvard University for fall 2017, her father’s alma mater.

Malia is one of many in the long line of presidential children to attend the Ivy League university. She graduated from the school in May 2021.

In March 2022, Malia was hired by Donald Glover as a writer for his Amazon series that was tentatively titled Hive. The Atlanta star had nothing but good things to say about his new hire in an interview with Vanity Fair.

“She’s just like, an amazingly talented person,” he said. “She’s really focused, and she’s working really hard. … I feel like she’s just somebody who’s going to have really good things coming soon. Her writing style is great.”

Natasha “Sasha” Obama

Michelle and Barack’s youngest daughter was born on June 10, 2001. Like her older sister, Sasha was just a little girl when the family first moved into the White House. In fact, Sasha was the youngest person to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. lived there in the ‘60s.

Growing up, the former first daughter was interested in tennis, tap dance, gymnastics and piano. She may have been living in the White House, but Sasha worked the takeout window at a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard over the summer months when she was 15.

In June 2019, Barack, Michelle and Malia were all on hand to watch Sasha graduate from Sidwell Friends School. After attending the University of Michigan for two years, she transferred to the University of Southern California in 2022. In April 2022, she sparked romance rumors with former college basketball star Clifton Powell Jr. after they were spotted out together in Los Angeles.