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 job on Look North in 1997. She took over presenting when Mike Neville retired from the job. Fellow presenter, Jeff Brown, who broadcasts the sports element and who stands in for Malia when she is absent, describes her as lovely off screen as on and "unflappable". In 2003, Malia revealed that she was the victim of two stalkers who had sent poison-pen and threatening letters to her. Malia is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and patron of the charity Northumbrian Blood Bikes. She is also a trustee of Bravehearts North East. Malia married Gary Hudson, a company manager, in