Malia Obama, former first daughter, turns 19

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4. Beautiful like her mother, but we shouldn't make a media star out of her

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.