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
Carol Malia Carol Malia Carol Malia is a broadcaster and journalist who has presented the north eastern version of BBC regional news programme Look North since 1997. Malia was born in Tynemouth and raised in Cullercoats. She attended Monkhouse Primary School in North Shields, then Marden High School, and after her A-Levels, she studied journalism at Darlington College, before becoming a junior reporter on the Hartlepool Mail newspaper. After being the chief reporter on the Hartlepool Mail, Malia moved into broadcasting first at Radio Cumbria, then Border Television in Carlisle. After that she moved to Tyne Tees Television and landed the presenting