Former president Barack Obama wasn't surprised that his daughter Malia Obama chose to drop her last name as a filmmaker.
Former president Barack Obama wasn't surprised that his daughter Malia Obama chose to drop her last name as a filmmaker, explaining that she and sister Sasha Obama try not to"leverage" their parent's"The challenge for us is letting us give them any help at all," Barack confessed on the Oct. 29 episode of"Sign up for NBC Philadelphia's News Headlines newsletter.
For Barack and Michelle — who are also working in Hollywood with their film company"Higher Ground Productions"— making sure that Malia and Sasha were able to have a semi-normal childhood was very important, with him explaining one of the reasons he was hesitant to run for office in the first place was the fear that their daughters might"end up weird."
"I basically made a deal with the press pool," he explained."I said, 'You can follow me around. You can talk about me. You do whatever you need to do. Leave my children alone because they have the right to grow up. They didn't choose this. Let them grow up.' And to the credit of the press they did leave them alone."
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