"Today marks a year since I learned that Sasha Obama's real name is Natasha," wrote Ashley Ford. After that, journalists drew attention to the fact that on many information resources the youngest daughter of the ex-president of the United States is called that way. "In most countries, the name Natasha is accepted, but in the Obama family this name is shortened to Sasha," according to the American dictionary of names Nameberry.
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Among social media users, the news about the girl's real name caused a heated discussion. Americans wonder how they could have failed to notice such an obvious thing. "Today will be the day when in the future it will be a year since I learned that Sasha Obama's real name is Natasha," reporter Johnny Karate mimicked.
Many even refused to believe this information, Gazeta.ru reports. "If you're kidding, then you're doing great," wrote user Stirling Allred. After a while Ashley Ford answered him: "No, I'm not kidding! Didn't you know?"
Note that a number of users treated this information as a reason for jokes. "I demand to initiate a congressional investigation!" - commented on the post of the journalist scottwithrage. "Wait, if Donald Trump finds out about this, he will accuse Obama of having ties to Russia!" - wrote quizquest.
The replies of people being "shook." I can "t front, I was shook too ... when I learned years ago. Pic.twitter.com/3AxcbdD87E
Social media users enthusiastically reposted the smiling Obama on the boat and created memes joking about his newfound freedom. Journalists accompanied the politician even on the beach, and the family greeted film crews and paparazzi without irritation.
« When no one at work appreciates you, you quit and everything goes to hell.».
The couple celebrated the holiday of all lovers. “Happy Valentine's Day, the love of my life and the best companion on the island,” Michelle wrote in Twitter.
However, the rest did not end there. Back in New York, as part of a cultural program, the couple went to a Broadway production and dined with U2 frontman Bono.
Barack also stayed at the Mirage Ranch in California, where the house of the former American ambassador to Spain, James Kostos, and his spouse, an interior designer, are located. It was he who has decorated the White House since 2008.
In early March, the couple met with an American billionaire in Nebraska, after which they flew to Hawaii and Tetiaroa (an island in French Polynesia). By the way, Tetiaroa, a heavenly and very prestigious place, was recently chosen by Pippa, the younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, for her honeymoon.
Hold positions
Even having resigned from the duties of the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama continues to be active in the fight for the rights and health of the country's citizens. She spoke at a meeting of the nonprofit The Partnership For A Healthier America in Washington, where she allowed herself to be rebuked by Trump. Michelle was outraged that the president had suspended a project she had launched before the change of power in the White House: he was supposed to change the menu in the country's schools, making children's meals healthier.
“You need to stop and think. Why don't you want to provide our children with the best nutrition in schools? What's wrong with you and why don't you speak about it openly? " she asked, addressing the president.
The family also oversees the Obama Foundation, created in January 2014. Plans to build a library and museum in Chicago. They see their mission in maintaining democratic foundations in American society, peace and welfare of citizens.
On May 19, the former president arrived in Italy with his wife in a private plane. The couple stayed at the Borgo Finocchieto villa in Siena.
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While traveling around the country, the couple felt absolutely relaxed, went in for sports and visited the main attractions of the area. Obama played golf, rode his bike and patiently photographed his wife against the backdrop of beautiful landscapes.
The girls who grew up in the White House
Obama's daughters, 18-year-old Malia and 15-year-old Sasha, are also taking a break from being in the spotlight.
Although, according to Michelle Obama, the girls left the White House with tears in their eyes. On the eve of departure, we had a party with friends, inviting them to pizza. These walls became family for the sisters - after all, they spent most of their conscious life there. However, both young American women found activities to their liking. And they didn't even have time to rest with their parents.
Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in Kenya on April 4, 1936, married at the age of 18, but then left his wife and young son to go to study at the University of Hawaii, where he meets Stanley student Ann Dunham (b. 29 November 1942), with whom he soon marries.
Barack Obama Sr.
In this marriage, on August 4, 1961, the future President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, is born. In January 1964, Obama's parents divorced. Obama's father, after completing his studies, returns to his Kenyan family. In Kenya, Barack Obama Sr. becomes a senior official, but after he published an article in which Obama criticized the national plan for building African socialism in Kenya, his career was destroyed. In 1982, Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident. It should be noted that after him there were 8 children from 4 marriages.
Ann Dunham, the mother of Barack Obama Jr., after a divorce from his father, married an Indonesian student and Barack Obama spent several years in Indonesia, then returning to Hawaii to his grandmother.
In 1972, Anne Dunham separated from her Indonesian husband and devoted herself to raising her son and continuing her education. In 1992, Anne received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. On November 7, 1995, Barack Obama's mother died of cancer.
After the divorce, Barack Obama saw his father only once (at the age of ten), because the personality of the future US president was formed mainly under the influence of his mother. In his book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on the Revival of the American Dream (2006), Barack Obama, talking about his path to God, recalls that much of the credit goes to his mother, even though she was not a believer:
"In our house, the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita stood on a shelf next to books on ancient Greek, Scandinavian and African mythologies. On Easter or Christmas, my mother could take me to church, just like she took me to a Buddhist temple, on a Chinese holiday New Years, to the Shinto shrine and to the ancient burial sites of Hawaiians. ”But I was given to understand that all these tests of religions did not require a strong commitment from me - no efforts to dig inside myself or self-flagellation. Religion is an expression of human culture, she explained, not its source, but only one of many ways - and not necessarily the best - in which a person tries to control the unknowable and understand the deepest secrets of life.
In short, my mother saw religion through the eyes of the ethnologist she later became; this is a phenomenon that must be treated with all respect, but at the same time with the appropriate detachment. "
"And yet, for all her learned secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person I have ever known. She possessed an unshakable natural capacity for kindness, mercy and love and very often acted under the influence of this ability, at Without the help of religious texts or outside authoritative sources, she excelled in establishing in me the values that many Americans are taught in Sunday school: honesty, empathy, discipline, giving up instant gratification in order to achieve goals, and hard work. and she despised those who were indifferent to it.
First of all, she sharply felt the miracle, was in awe of life, its preciousness and fleetingness. This sense of wonder and reverence for life could rightfully be called devout. She could see a picture, she could read a line of a poem, or hear music, and I saw tears welling up in her eyes. Sometimes, when I was growing up, she woke me up in the middle of the night to look at a particularly beautiful moon, or forced me to close my eyes when we walked together at dusk and listened to the rustle of leaves. She loved to take children - any children - to sit on her lap and tickle, or play games with them, or examine their palms, explore the miracle of bones, tendons and skin and rejoice in the truths that can be discovered in them. She saw secrets everywhere and rejoiced in the very strangeness of life.
Only in hindsight, of course, I fully understand how deeply this spirit of her influenced me - how he supported me, despite the absence of my father in the house, how he helped me to get past the underwater reefs of adolescence, and how invisibly guided me on the path that I ended up with. ends up gone. "Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama
After college, Barack Obama took up social work for a group of churches in Chicago:
“working with pastors and lay people reinforced my determination to lead a community life, strengthened my racial identity, and deepened my faith in the common people’s ability to do amazing things. But the experience in Chicago also presented me with a dilemma that my mother never solved in her entire life: I did not belong to any collective, did not adhere to common traditions in which they could find support for my deepest convictions.The Christians with whom I worked recognized themselves in me; they saw that I knew their Scriptures, I share their values and sing their songs. But they felt that a part of me remains aloof, remains an observer. I realized that without a vessel for my faith, without unambiguously associating myself with any particular religious society, at some level I I will always remain on the sidelines, free just like my mother, but just as lonely as she was infinitely lonely. "
Barack Obama began to study African American spiritual tradition:
"faith was not just a consolation for the discouraged or a fence from death, faith has become an active, noticeable agent in the world. In the daily work of men and women whom I see every day in church, in their ability to find a way out of a desperate situation and maintain hope and dignity in the most difficult situations I have seen the Word incarnate.
And it is probably thanks to the deep knowledge of suffering, the foundation of faith in the struggle, the "black" church gave me a second insight: faith does not mean that you have no doubts or that you renounce everything worldly. Long before it became fashionable among television preachers, common Negro preaching freely recognized that all Christians (including pastors) can experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger as everyone else. Gospel songs, dances, tears and screams - everything spoke of releasing, recognizing and, ultimately, channeling these emotions into the mainstream. In the black community, the line between the sinner and the saved was more fluid; the sins of those who entered the Church were not so different from the sins of those who did not, and they could be spoken of with equal probability both with humor and with condemnation. It was necessary to enter the Church just because you are from this world, not aloof from it; rich, poor, sinner, saved, you had to accept Christ precisely because you have sins that need to be washed away - because you are a human being and you need an ally on your difficult path in order to level mountains and valleys, and twisted paths make it straight.
It is thanks to these new discoveries - that religious faith does not require me to stop thinking critically, give up fighting for economic and social justice, or otherwise leave the world that I know and love - that I was finally able to one day walk through the United Church. Christ and be baptized. This was the result of a deliberate choice, not a sudden revelation; the questions I had did not magically disappear. But kneeling under that cross in Chicago's Southside, I felt the spirit of God calling me. I submitted to His will and dedicated myself to discovering His truth. "In the 2008 US presidential elections, 53% of American believers voted for Obama.
Wife and family
Having found an ally in the person of God, Obama soon received a new spiritual support in the person of Michelle Robinson, who became his wife and the first lady of the United States. Michelle was born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago. Michelle, unlike Barack Obama, is a descendant of American slaves. Obama adores his wife and writes about her this way in his book The Insolence of Hope:
“Most of those who meet my wife quickly come to the conclusion that she is wonderful. In this they are right - she is smart, funny and simply charming. She is also beautiful, but her beauty is not the kind that scares men and repels women. ; this is the natural beauty of a mother and a busy professional, not the photoshopped image that we see on the covers of glossy magazines.Often, after hearing her speak at an event, or after working with her on a project, people come up to me and say something like, "You know, I have a very good opinion of you, Barack, but your wife ... is just superb!" I nod, realizing that if she were my electoral competitor, she would have won without much difficulty. "
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle
It is worth noting that Barack Obama and his wife are probably the tallest couple among the first couples: Barack Obama's height is 187 cm, and Michelle Obama's height is 182 cm.
Barack Obama with his wife and Dmitry Medvedev with his wife
Obama met his wife-to-be in the summer of 1988, when they both worked for a large law firm, Sidley Austin. Although Michelle was younger than Barack, she was already a practicing lawyer while Obama was then a student intern. Michelle was appointed as Obama's Practice Leader. Obama was subdued by his mentor, but she refused a real date for a long time, because the romance of a mentor and a subordinate did not fit into service ethics. In the end, Obama persuaded Michelle: their first date took place at the Baskin-Robbins cafe, eating ice cream. Then Obama kissed his future wife for the first time, feeling the taste of chocolate on her lips.
In October 1992, Michelle and Barack were married, and in 1998, on US Independence Day (July 4), they had a daughter, Malia. On June 10, 2001, a second daughter, Natasha, appeared in the family.Barack Obama with his family
Summing up the above, it can be noted that the personality of Barack Obama was influenced by good heredity, an intelligent and sensitive mother, a sense of God as an ally, support of his wife and family, but the main thing that shaped the personality of Barack Obama and made him who he is now is the audacity of hope. The phrase "insolence of hope", once heard by Obama in a sermon, is included in the title of his book:
"The audacity of hope.
Barack Obama is a person you can talk about for hours. Becoming the first black president in the history of the United States of America, this outstanding politician gained legendary status during his lifetime.
This is the best thing in the American spirit, I thought, to have the audacity to believe against all odds that we can restore the community of a nation torn apart by conflict; It is folly to believe that, despite personal setbacks, the loss of a job, the illness of a family member, or a childhood spent in poverty, we can control our own destiny - and therefore are responsible for it.
It was this audacity, I thought, that united us into one people. It was this pervasive spirit of hope that connected my family's history with the history of America, and my own history with the history of the constituents I am trying to represent. "Today, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, is called one of the most popular figures in world politics, because he is one of the few people who managed to preserve his human appearance even after reaching the very heights of world politics.
Childhood of Barack Obama. Education
Barack Hussein Obama II was born in the warm and sunny city of Honolulu - the only metropolis in the Hawaiian Islands. His father, a native of the Kenyan village of Kanyadyang, entered the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1959 to study economics. During his studies, he met a student of the anthropology department, a white American named Stanley Ann Dunham, the mother of the future president. It is noteworthy that the acquaintance took place at optional courses in the Russian language.
No less interesting is the fact that before his marriage to Danham, he was already married to a Kenyan woman Keize Aoko, with whom he had two children - a son Malik and a daughter Aumu. In 1959, he left his family and flew to the States.
Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born in August 1961. The new mother decided to quit school, while her father, on the contrary, took up studies, graduated from the University of Hawaii and, when the youngest Obama was not even three years old, left the family to continue his studies at Harvard. For a while, Barack Obama's parents still maintained a relationship, but some time later, Obama Sr. left the United States of America altogether in order to take a high post in the administrative apparatus of Kenya.
Subsequently, the president recalled that very few memories of his real father are stored in his memory - he spent only one month with him at the age of 10. Then Barack Obama Sr., who briefly visited the States, gave his son the first basketball in his life and took him to the first jazz concert. Both that, and another became an integral part of the boy's hobbies, carried over into adulthood. Many years later, Barack Obama recounted his childhood memories in his biographical book, My Father's Dreams.
Unfortunately, the life of Barack Obama's father ended tragically at the age of 47. Back in the early 70s, he got into an accident, did not die, but lost both legs, and then his work. This knocked the man down; he began to drink and fell into poverty. In 1982, he remarried, the couple had a son, and the elder Obama's life began to improve. But six months after the birth of baby George, he again had an accident - this time, which ended fatally.
Well, Ann Dunham, three years after breaking up with Obama, met a new love - Lolo Sutoro, a student from Indonesia. He replaced Barack's father. As a result of this union, the younger sister of the future president, Maya, was born. Some time later, the whole family moved to the historical homeland of their stepfather - to Jakarta (Indonesia), where most of the childhood of the future leader of America passed.
In the Indonesian capital, Obama Jr. attended one of the comprehensive schools until the fourth grade. After that, he again moved to the Hawaiian Islands, to his mother's parents, who sent him to the prestigious Panehou private school. During his school years, he was the star of the youth basketball team and was a great student. He received a certificate with the highest score in 1979. In 2008, the president publicly admitted that he abused marijuana at school, tried cocaine and alcohol.
During those years, he, like two other black students at school, suffered from constant racist comments about him. “Once I suddenly realized that everything in this world was created for whites. Even Santa is white! I stood at the mirror for a long time and wondered what was wrong with me, ”Obama shared in his memoirs.
Kenyan family of Barack Obama
After graduating from high school, Barack entered Occidental College Los Angeles, two years later transferred to Columbia University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. Until 1985, he worked in the business sector, then moved to Chicago, where he began his career as a lawyer. For several years in a row, he worked with the cases of residents of disadvantaged areas. In 1989 he went to work for one of the largest law firms in the United States, Sidley Austin.
In 1988, Barack Obama resumed his studies - he decided to get a second degree at Harvard University. Here he studied law while at the same time heading the university newspaper Harvard Law Review. Significantly, no African American has held this post before.
Barack Obama's political career
Already during this period, Barack Obama established himself as a notorious fighter for equality. With these ideals, he went into politics. In the early nineties, he joined the ranks of the Democratic Party, and already in 1997 was elected Senator of the state of Illinois. After 9/11, Barack Obama was one of the most active opponents of George W. Bush and his decision to send troops to Iraq. He also opposed the creation of the North American Free Trade Area. As for the social sphere, one of the main themes in Obama's political doctrine has become support for low-income families and universal health insurance for the population.
In 2005, ambassador of a failed attempt in 2000, Barack Obama took office in the US Federal Senate. From that moment on, he became one of the leading figures in the political structure of the United States of America. In February 2007, Barack Obama announced his intention to run for the presidency of the United States. Hillary Clinton became his main rival for the title of the main candidate from the Democrats.
As a result, she gave in to Obama and provided him with possible support throughout his election campaign. The ordinary population supported Obama with a dollar - about $ 58 million in donations were collected as part of the presidential campaign. Most of the money belonged to middle-class Americans.
The new "people's president" moved forward with the slogan "Yes We Can" and with huge support from the common people. Significantly, his main opponent, John McCain, relied primarily on high-income Americans.
In the presidential election on November 4, 2008, Obama defeated Republican candidate John McCain, receiving 52.9% of the popular vote against McCain's 45.7%. 338 out of 538 electors were given for Barack Obama. On January 20, 2009, a Democrat, Liberal, and the first ever African American president took over the Oval Hall of the White House. His associate, Senator from Delaware Joe Biden, became Vice President.
44th President of the United States Barack Obama
During the first 100 days of the presidency, Obama and his team were able to embrace a number of important innovations. Obama urged Congress to expand the scope of child health insurance and pay attention to pay discrimination against women. $ 787 billion was invested in the short-term economy of the United States, primarily in the banking market and the auto industry. Obama has proposed tax cuts for trade unions, small entrepreneurs and first-time homebuyers. The president not only lifted the ban on stem cell development, but also allocated $ 3.5 trillion for further research.
It was at the suggestion of Obama that the Senate passed an anti-crisis bill aimed at supporting the American economy, as well as the fateful decision to withdraw troops from Iraq. In addition, Obama implemented the Obamacare health care reform, which made mandatory health insurance for every US citizen. He ordered the closure of the notorious Guantanamo prison and signed a decree banning mutilation of interrogation.
Obama tried to improve US foreign policy relations with the countries of Europe, China, Russia, made attempts to dialogue with Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. The warming of relations with Cuba took place even before the death of Fidel Castro, to the displeasure of the Republicans, who considered the rapprochement premature. For all his peacekeeping efforts in 2009, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
By the way, Russia became the 14th country that Obama visited in the first year of his presidency. And, apparently, he had a good relationship with his Russian "colleague" Dmitry Medvedev.
Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama eating hamburgers
In the spring of 2011, Obama announced his desire to be re-elected as the leader of the United States of America. This time, the African American president clashed with Mitt Romney and once again secured a seat in the Oval Office for the next 4 years. According to the results of the popular vote, he received 51.1% of the votes, 332 electors gave their votes to Obama.
Barack Obama considers the invasion of Libya the biggest mistake in 8 years of his presidency. The greatest merit is the salvation of America from a protracted economic crisis that could result in a new Great Depression.
Personal life of Barack Obama
He met his charming wife Michelle Obama (nee LaVon Robinson) during an internship at the legal agency Sidley Austin in the late 80s. It is noteworthy that at first Michelle, a lively lawyer, was not at all interested in him from a love point of view, although she was never bored with him and always had something to talk about. For several months, Barak sought her favor. Bouquets, sweets, romantic confessions - it was all in vain. But when Michelle heard his fiery speech, which he delivered to black teenagers from the Chicago slums, she realized that she could no longer deny her feelings.
Barack and Michelle Obama's wedding took place on October 3, 1992. After the ceremony, the newlyweds traveled to Kenya to visit the groom's relatives. The next five years, the life of the young couple was cloudless, until in 1998 their eldest daughter Malia was born. As soon as Michelle went on maternity leave, it turned out that Barak's social and political activities did not allow him to support his family at a decent level. “We were as poor as church mice,” Michelle recalled these years. Barak refused to work in his specialty, although it would bring the family a colossal income, claiming that he does not see himself anywhere except in politics.
In 2001, the couple had a daughter, Sasha, who almost became a catalyst for the divorce proceedings. She also saved the marriage of the Obama couple - when at 3 months the baby fell ill with meningitis, the parents did not leave her hospital bed a step, forgetting about all the disagreements. When a miracle happened and the girl recovered, the couple intuitively compromised: Michelle became a reliable support for her husband in his political activities, and Barack began to spend more time with his family.
Since then, Barack Obama has never forgotten what comes first in his life. Even in the midst of the election race, even in the most difficult days of the presidency, he was attentive and gentle to his wife and remembered important events in the lives of his daughters. Throughout the 8 years of Obama's leadership, his family has been a role model.
By the way, the president instilled responsibility and love for work in his daughters. So, in the summer of 2016, his youngest daughter Sasha found a part-time job ... in a fast food restaurant.
When the 44th President of the United States was asked what he plans to do after the elections, he joked that he planned to get a good sleep, or maybe even get a job as a driver at Uber. But when it came to serious plans for the future, he noted that together with his wife he would help children from low-income families to get a decent education.
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They moved to the White House when they were just 10 and 7 years old. The youngest residents of the mansion in the past 65 years, Malia and Sasha Obama spent two terms of their father under the tutelage of the presidential guard and all these years grew up literally in front of the entire nation.
America then saw everything: innocent childish pranks and cheeky teenage antics, touching family outings and the first noisy parties, experimenting with style and finding oneself. Of course, their childhood was not easy: very little girls, they had to sacrifice banal childhood joys, witness endless attacks on their father and be present where this could have been completely avoided (do you take your children to absolutely every event?).
Malia and Sasha at the second inauguration of Barack Obama's father, January 21, 2013Now Malia is 19, and Sasha is 16, both of them are no longer the cute girls that entered the White House 8 years ago, but fully formed beautiful girls who are preparing to start a new stage in their biographies. However, not everything is as simple as it seems, because the past life within the framework of the protocol now and then makes itself felt.
Forget at parties
Being a teenager and still being a model of obedience and morality is not an easy task. And even if your face is in the top of the most recognizable in the world, you also sometimes want to succumb to reckless fun and not think about the consequences.
“Of course, the children of the first persons of the state grow up in special conditions in comparison with their peers,” the expert comments. clinical psychologist Lucie Suleimanova, - They come under double pressure: on the one hand, it can be a sharp change in the parental approach to upbringing in connection with the new highest status of the father, on the other - close attention of the press and society as a whole. Life turns into life behind the glass. "
19-year-old Malia with performer Amine at the Lollapalooza festival
18-year-old Malia with her dad, July 4, 2016
In the early years of their father's administration, the little ones regularly played the role of a universal touching factor. But as time went on, the girls grew up, and the first psychological symptoms of adolescence began to take their toll. “Pride in the new status of the family, a surge in a sense of responsibility gradually gave way to fatigue and stress associated with the need to“ keep your face ”24 hours a day and control your emotions and behavior, explains Luciya Suleimanova. that the level of responsibility of all family members was fueled by the fact that Obama is the first "non-white" US president. Tolerance is tolerance, but no one has canceled the historical memory ”.
Riots followed - absolutely normal for all adolescents, but for some reason completely unacceptable for presidential daughters. Sasha and Malia did not have close friends. And how could they appear, because with their schedule and status, you won't invite anyone to visit, you don't go to the cinema without security, and even to a banal bachelorette party with harmless fortune-telling, gossip and homemade manicure (so popularized in American youth comedies), parents are definitely not will be allowed.
Even after the end of Barack Obama's presidency, his daughters were always reminded of their status. In the photo, security escorts Sasha Obama and her friends to the beach in Miami, January 14, 2017
There were only parties where security guards would be able to guide you and where you could break away ... no, not with friends, but with acquaintances who, of course, will be glad to see you, but still are unlikely to become your best friends after. For Malia - as an older woman - these parties have become a great way to feel like an ordinary teenager, forget about the pressure being put on her and her family, and just live a life of her own.
Already at the beginning of the second administration of Barack Obama, Malia began increasingly to "abandon" her sister at the protocol events of the US First Family, missed important receptions and holidays, preferring to spend time at all kinds of parties. At one time, Malia's long absence on American television screens even gave rise to rumors in the press that the girl was being treated for drug addiction (after all, she had been noticed more than once smoking something fun on the Snapchat-ah of Washington youth).
Ceremony of lighting the lights on the national Christmas tree. Malia ignored the event. December 1, 2016
Finally, in the last year of her father’s presidency, 15-year-old Sasha joined the frenzy of her older sister. While the media was still spreading the news about how Malia smoked marijuana and danced twerk at her favorite music festival Lollapalooza (Chicago), Sasha suddenly made her debut at another party in Washington, at which, to the delight of the paparazzi, she did not calculate alcohol. And again about imaginary friends: as once happened with Malia (there was even a big scandal at Brown University), the journalists took photos of Sasha in a form that was not quite suitable for a presidential daughter ... from the social networks of other guests of the party.
Escape Washington
But, be that as it may, almost 8 months have passed since Obama's last speech in the presidency. The persecution of the press weakened, the girls began a new life, but, as it turned out, the old habits have not gone anywhere. Immediately after moving from the White House, Sasha "rushed" with her friends to Miami, and a few months later she arranged a grand celebration for her sixteenth birthday, which was attended by the very cream of Washington's golden youth (among which, for example, was the daughter of actress Charriss Jackson, Jordan Skylar) ... Here, the girl amazed everyone with how mature she looks and how frankly she dresses.
Sweet sixteen: Malia wearing Jill Jill Stuart dress at her own 16th birthday party, May 2017
As for Malia, upon learning of her enrollment at Harvard, she took a “gap year” for herself and went to New York. It would seem that now she, a 19-year-old girl and without five minutes a student of one of the best universities in the world, should finally become more serious, but that was not the case. It turned out that Malia never learned how to handle the freedom she was given. Just a month ago, the ex-First daughter again went to her beloved festival in Chicago, where, as expected, she again went overboard with alcohol and did not take into account the fact that in our age everyone has a smartphone with Internet access. Several incriminating videos hit the Web at once. On one of them - a girl, as if in convulsions, dances to her favorite song, lying on the floor, and on the second - Malia, already tired and unable to move independently, is taken away by the festival employees in a golf cart.
According to eyewitness descriptions, the girl could hardly walk on her own.
Security officers considered it necessary to take Malia away from the event, August 8, 2017
“It so happened that the term of Obama’s presidency ended when both daughters go through a mature puberty, which is characterized by a search for themselves outside the family format, a“ breakaway ”in all directions,” the expert explains. But the intensity of the "detachment" can be much higher - too much has been accumulated and suppressed in 8 years. In the behavior of the eldest daughter, there may be an element of latent desire for shocking ("Yes! Finally I can do what I want!"). And the press, with its unrelenting attention, only aggravates the situation. "
Meanwhile, it seems that the desire to shock is gradually awakening in Malia's younger sister Sasha, because that week she also came to the Lollapalooza festival. True, unlike her older relative, Sasha decided to attract attention not by dancing, but by her style of communication with young people. So, during one of the gatherings, the girl was caught kissing a young man, with whom she, according to Snapchat users, was only familiar for a couple of minutes. Of course, the corresponding video immediately hit the Internet.
A Snapchat user post was an instant sensation
Sasha Obama kisses in public with a guy he barely knows
It seems that the more miles separate the girls from Washington, the freer they feel. It is no coincidence that immediately after Barack Obama's last speech, Sasha went on vacation to Miami, and Malia moved to New York for six months.
By the way, the desire to run away from everything "serious" and "protocol" was noticeable in Obama's eldest daughter even during his presidency. A couple of years ago, the girl said that she did not want to associate her life with politics, but that she dreams of becoming a producer. She tried to spend every vacation on an internship at a film company (she already has a background in such projects as the TV series Girls, the Sundance Film Festival and Halle Berry's film "Outside"), and the last few months Malia worked at the production center of The Weinstein Company in New York. Where she, of course, every now and then "caught" the paparazzi.
Say goodbye to protocol style
While still the First Daughters of the United States, Malia and Sasha received angry reviews from the public about their clothing style. For example, in 2014, Obama's political opponent, Republican Elizabeth Lauten, even posted a moralizing comment on her Facebook page, urging teenagers not to roll their eyes in front of the camera and dress according to their situation. Later, of course, Mrs. Lauten apologized for the post, but she was no longer able to keep her position.
The very event at which many were outraged by the style and behavior of the sisters, Thanksgiving, 2014
On the other hand, as for the outfits, here we can agree with the republican: Malia and Sasha really did not always follow the diplomatic protocol. Crazy mini, casual style - the girls always looked older than their age (especially since at the age of 16 the eldest daughter of Michelle and Barack Obama was already as tall as her mother), and in such images they could be taken for adults. Later, however, Michelle began to dress Malia and Sasha in dresses of a more feminine cut (you can even say that these were mini versions of her own outfits), but the ultra-short length never went anywhere.
The Obama sisters at Madrid airport, July 29, 2016.
Now girls do not owe anything to anyone and can afford to dress like it-girls with absolutely impunity. Which is what they do. Sasha, for example, as seen in recent photos, appeared at a party in honor of her sixteenth birthday in a red silk slip dress from Jill Jill Stuart and, I must say, looked luxurious and even, perhaps, too sexy for her age. On vacation in Miami, the girl periodically walked a swimsuit with a print in the form of an American flag, which could also hardly have been allowed for her earlier.
Sasha and her friends are resting in Miami, January 13, 2017
Malia, on the other hand, feeling that no one is watching her appearance anymore, threw out all her feminine mini-dresses and now appears on the streets in her favorite casual looks. T-shirts, baseball caps, parkas and jeans - looking at the girl now, you wouldn't even think that she lived in the White House for eight years. Meanwhile, it is likely that the new image will help Malia mimic her new environment, because the girl will spend the next four years at Harvard, whose students change their favorite bombers and worn jeans for expensive suits and white shirts only closer to graduation.
Will studying at university help her overcome the puberty crisis? Quite doubtful, since since Malia moved to campus, students' social media has literally exploded with messages of undisguised joy at the opportunity to study with such a famous person. “In the cafeteria, I'm just 20 feet from Malia Obama. Wow!!! I'm shocked. ”“ How I want to be Malia Obama's best friend this year, ”these and other“ tweets ”, accompanied by stealthy photos of the president’s daughter, have already flooded the Internet.
And Malia herself, of course, sees when they try to photograph her, which, obviously, is not at all happy about her. A couple of days ago, for example, near the cafeteria she was "caught" by the grandmother of a student and, having previously shouted something like "God, this is Malia Obama!", She rushed to the girl with requests to take a picture. The student politely refused and went into the dining room, but the fan decided to wait for her favorite to finish dinner.
Malia did not have time to leave the building, as she was immediately blinded by the flash of her grandmother's camera. “Will you still poke this [camera] in my face, as if I were an animal in a cage?” The student was indignant. But grandmother didn't care. She made her own shot.
“Perhaps a university in Australia or New Zealand would be a better educational destination for Malia. There, there would be less attention to her person, which means there are more chances for a softer overcoming of the crisis, ”said Luciya Suleimanova.
But, alas, the choice has been made, and how it will affect the further adaptation of Malia to the new reality, we still have to see. One thing we know for sure: it will be difficult for the girl - as, in fact, for her younger sister, who is still in transition.
LYUTSIA SULEIMANOVA - clinical psychologist, PhD in Psychology, Managing Partner of the Center for Educational Kinesiology, author of the "Get Up and Go" training. Personal site - luciapsycho.su
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