5 times Malia Obama proved she’s just as smart as her parents – from studying law at Harvard to joining Atlanta star Donald Glover’s new Amazon series as a writer

May 4 , 2021

Former US President Barack Obama’s eldest daughter Malia is one smart cookie – she’s currently reading law at Harvard and even helped her father with Spanish. Photo: AP

Barack and Michelle Obama’s eldest kid is one smart cookie: she speaks fluent Spanish and has interned at the US embassy in Madrid and on US TV shows and films

Now loved up with Rory Farquharson, the 22-year-old has also shown sensitivity around her sister Sasha’s crushes – including Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Reynolds

Malia Obama clearly inherited her parents’ academic brilliance, even continuing a family tradition by attending the same college – but the former first daughter has only just begun to show us what she’s capable of.

She got into Harvard

Malia Obama proudly wearing her Harvard T-shirt. She is set to graduate in 2021. Photo: @usdcas/Twitter

Harvard is still regarded as one of the most difficult American universities to get into, with an admission rate of less than 5 per cent. And while Barack and Michelle both attended the Ivy League institution, the pair reportedly told her she didn’t need to feel pressure to go to a big-name institution, too. Nevertheless, after gaining a place to study law, Malia decided to go anyway – but not before taking a gap year.

She speaks much better Spanish than her dad

Malia helped her father Barack with Spanish during a trip to Cuba. Photo: AP

Former US President Barack Obama got a little help on the job the summer before Malia headed off to university. The then-first daughter stepped in to help out the American leader with his Spanish-speaking skills during a trip to Cuba – the first time a sitting president had visited the country in nearly 90 years.

Barack told ABC News: “You know, her Spanish is much better than mine … My vocabulary is the equivalent of a two-year-old’s … It turned out that, during the presidency, I didn’t have time to take Spanish lessons.”

She’s bagged a job in TV writing