Former President Barack Obama Reacts to Malia Obama Dropping Last Name Professionally
These celebrity kids are cruising into a new chapter of life. Without their parents well-known names.
Take, for instance, how Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's daughter Malia Obama distanced herself from her family name for a project, choosing to call herself Malia Ann in the credits of her film The Heart.
"I was all like, ‘You do know they'll know who you are,'" her dad recently said of the warning her gave Malia. "And she's all like, ‘You know what? I want them to watch it that first time and not in any way have that association.' So I think our daughters go out of their way to not try to leverage that."
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise's daughter Suri Cruise recently revealed she's going by a new name, dropping her dad's stage name and instead using Suri Noelle (an homage to her mom's middle name) at her high school graduation earlier this year.
She and Malia are not the only ones to make a change to her surname after reaching adulthood.
