Malia Obama changes name, signs Malia Ann. The 25-year-old eldest Obama daughter announced her first film The Heart last year at the Sundance festival in Utah.
Controversy immediately followed from alleged critics according to whom it could only be a case of nepotism. Whoopi Goldberg, one of the hosts of the ABC show, defended the girl's decision: "What do you care what she wants to call herself? If she wanted to call itself Jeanette McDonald she would have every right to do so"