Michelle Obama Responds To Daughter Ditching Her Last Name

You will not see this from any of President Trump’s sons and daughters.

Michelle Obama has responded to her daughter Malia’s decision to change her last name.

In 2023, Malia Obama ditched her last name as an effort to make a name for herself in Hollywood.

However, since she decided to change her last name, her mother, Michelle, hasn’t addressed the matter until now.

Check out what our friends at The Gateway Pundit reported:

Michelle Obama has broken her silence on her eldest daughter’s decision to ditch the Obama family name.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Barack and Michelle Obama’s oldest daughter, Malia, ditched the Obama surname last year as she embarked on a career in Hollywood.

In 26-year-old Malia Obama’s 2023 film project, “The Heart,” she dropped her last name, Obama, and was credited as Malia Ann instead.

The oldest daughter of Obama reportedly stopped using the family last name for film projects to distance herself from her parents.
Michelle Obama spoke out on Malia’s bold decision during Monday’s podcast of “Sibling Revelry,” which is hosted by actress Kate Hudson and her brother and actor Oliver Hudson.

As MSNBC notes, Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson, was also a guest on the podcast.
Michelle Obama said she held no grudges against Malia for her decision, though she mentioned to her daughter that people would still know who she was.

Listen here:

Michelle Obama is all for her daughter’s independence. https://t.co/NJNX1BLtyT pic.twitter.com/IVYhcwnesH

— E! News (@enews) June 4, 2025

Did you know Malia interned for disgraced movie producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein?

Malia Obama to intern for Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein before heading to Harvard https://t.co/Mrf1jpuaEt pic.twitter.com/TVX5viX0SH

— Us Weekly (@usweekly) January 20, 2017

Per Vanity Fair:

After the Obama family returns from their post-inauguration vacation to Palm Springs, three of them—Barack, Michelle, and Sasha—will readjust to civilian life in Kalorama, a D.C. neighborhood located just two miles from their old digs.

The missing family member? That would be 18-year-old Malia, who’s reportedly off to a new adventure: an internship for mega-producer Harvey Weinsten.

Page Six first reported Thursday night that the future Harvard undergrad—she’s taking a gap year before beginning college this fall—will begin work with Weinstein “sometime in the future.” The Hollywood Reporter followed with news that Malia “is expected to begin work in the New York office of The Weinstein Co. in February,” shortly after her family’s Palm Springs jaunt.

Despite her age, Malia already has a fair amount of experience in the entertainment industry: she spent some of the summer of 2015 assisting crew members on the set of HBO’s Girls, and reportedly had a similar gig on the set of Halle Berry’s sci-fi drama Extant the previous year (where she “fetched coffee and got no special treatment,” at least according to the Daily Mail).

Clearly, there’ll be a lot more for her to learn at the Weinstein Company: Harvey Weinstein is a notorious mover and shaker in Hollywood, a comeback kid whose producing prowess and reputation for waging fierce Oscar campaigns has inspired admiration, envy, and every other emotion on the spectrum. (His former assistant Leslye Headland, now a successful screenwriter and director in her own right, wrote a scathing 2008 play based in part on her experience working for Weinstein, called Assistance.)