Malia Obama, former first daughter, turns 19
Malia Obama doesn't just observe the nation's birthday every Fourth of July—she also celebrates her own.
Born on July 4, 1998, Obama turns 19 on Tuesday. And what a year it's been, with a turbulent campaign season, the victory of Republican Donald Trump and the end of her father's presidential term. Ever since her dad, Barack Obama, left office this January, Malia Obama has nearly vanished from the spotlight.
Eating Pizza
Obama, along with her sister, mom and friends, had a slumber party for their last night in the White House.
"They had a sleepover because of course on Inauguration Day, because my girls are so normal, they're like, 'Well, eight girls are gonna be sleeping here because it's our last time, and we want pizza and we want nuggets.' And it's like, really?" former first lady Michelle Obama said in April.
Delaying College
Malia Obama is scheduled to attend Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this fall. She announced last May that she was taking a gap year before starting college.
Protesting
Obama went to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah to take part in a demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the $3.7 billion pipeline causing controversy for allegedly disrupting Native American land.
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really is, what her voice sounds like, what she enjoyed as a child (like Caroline's Macaroni the Pony), nothing.
The Obamas simply, IMO, weren't "promoted" as a family. Maybe I missed a lot.
Yes, I was there for the Kennedys. 
This photo is from 2015 so she's about 17 here. I believe Malia Obama will become a beautiful and intelligent adult but she should be allowed to grow up away from the media spotlight. Like all kids I'm sure she's made a few mistakes and immature decisions, and that's OK. That's how we learn and grow up.
But it's not fair to make a media star out of her when she doesn't actually seek the bright spotlight of her parents' careers. She will attend college this fall for the first time, and hopefully she'll apply herself and work hard. In my own life and considering my siblings and contemporaries (I'm in my 60's now) I know that it's easy to have false starts when someone is forced to make decisions at a young age. In college I changed my major 3 times, and I also got married too young like a lot of my friends did. But none of us had the media hounding us and reporting everything on the 24/7 news channels.
When Malia has finished her studies and chosen a career of her own, that's when it would be appropriate for news reporters to be discussing her activities, but before that time she's entitled to privacy.
