Michelle Obama Obama has said that the two had an "opposites attract" scenario in their initial interest in each other, since Michelle had stability from her two-parent home while he was "adventurous". They married on October 3, 1992. After suffering a miscarriage, Michelle underwent in vitro fertilisation to conceive their daughters Malia Ann (born 1998) and Natasha (known as Sasha, born 2001). The Obama family lived on Chicago's South Side, where Barack taught at the University of Chicago Law School. He was elected to the state senate in 1996, and to the US Senate in 2004. They chose to keep their residence
Malia (canoe) Catalina-to-Newport race in 1959 was the alleged pirating of a fiberglass plug of the "Malia". This shell, reportedly taken without authorization while the "Malia" awaited shipment back to Hawaii, was later made into a mold. From this mold, and the hulls that came from it, other molds were made. The majority of the fiberglass canoes in use in Hawaii and California today have been made from these molds. Thus the "Malia" inadvertently sired a noble fleet of fiberglass-and-resin-canoes. In 1960, a California-made fiberglass model of the "Mālia" competed in the annual paddling race across the Molokai Channel (the Molokai Hoe)