Michelle Obama has weighed in on her eldest daughter Malia’s decision to drop her last name in professional projects.

The former First Lady said the 26-year-old is “trying to make her way” in the film industry after it emerged that she now uses the name Malia Ann in a professional setting.

“I mean, it is very important for my kids to feel like they’ve earned what they are getting in the world, and they don’t want people to assume that they don’t work hard, that they’re just naturally, just handed things,” Michelle said on Kate and Oliver Hudson’s “Sibling Revelry” podcast Monday. 4

“They’re very sensitive to that — they want to be their own people.”

The “Becoming” author, 61, added that both Malia and her younger sister, Sasha, 23, have wanted to to forge their own paths in lif

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