Rising up within the public eye is hard, and like her older sister, Sasha Obama has by no means hidden the truth that she would not love the movie star life. Nevertheless, spending her childhood beneath a microscope is not the one factor Sasha has needed to cope with. Between a scary sickness and a automobile accident, let’s dig into what she’s confronted.

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Okay, so rising up with well-known mother and father is only one side of Sasha’s life, however it’s a fairly large one, so we’ll begin with that. Whereas some might imagine being the child of a president comes with a ton of perks, each Sasha and Malia Obama had some apprehensions proper from the beginning, and their dad did not conceal that. Chatting with Individuals in 2008, Barack Obama defined, “They aren’t wanting ahead to transferring. They’ve a beautiful life in Chicago, they’ve lifelong pals in Chicago and the prospects of getting to make new pals, that is by no means one thing that youngsters are wanting ahead to. So I am positive that there is part of them that claims we cannot be heartbroken if issues do not work out.” 

As for Michelle Obama, she additionally addressed her and Barack’s concern over their youngsters’ newfound (and undesirable) fame, telling “The View” that her primary purpose was maintaining issues as regular for them as she presumably might. She additionally admitted to having some issues about her daughters’ lives in the event that they did transfer into the White Home. “I give it some thought. I strive to not obsess about it as a result of, you already know, we have a whole lot of work earlier than, you already know, it is even a actuality, however … Barack and I take into consideration our ladies each single day,” she mentioned. After all, Barack did win, and the ladies had been propelled into the limelight — however extra on that in a sec. 

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Taking issues again a beat to earlier than her dad was a presidential candidate, some might know that Sasha Obama had fairly a daunting well being scare when she was an toddler. 

Each Barack and Michelle Obama have spoken about their youngest daughter being identified with meningitis when she was only a few months previous. Michelle addressed it in a 2013 interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, sharing on his radio present, “One hour she was wonderful, she was regular, she was glad, doing the whole lot I used to be used to her doing and the subsequent hour she was crying inconsolably, and that simply wasn’t like her” (by way of NBC Information). The then-FLOTUS shared that after attempting the whole lot from feeding Sasha to burping her and soothing her the identical method she all the time did, she’d referred to as her pediatrician, who had advised her to get to the emergency room as quickly as doable. As for Barack, he opened up concerning the state of affairs the yr prior, in a marketing campaign video. “I nonetheless bear in mind going to the hospital collectively they usually needed to give her a spinal faucet,” he mentioned (by way of Politico). Unsurprisingly, the dad of two was extremely fearful. “Your world narrows to this very small level,” he mentioned.

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After all, regardless of the terrifying analysis, Sasha survived — and as is to be anticipated, each of her mother and father had been overjoyed by the turnaround. “She turned out — clearly, as this story ends, she is okay, she’s wholesome, she’s a phenomenal younger woman,” Michelle advised Sharpton. Even so, it was a scary ordeal nonetheless. 

On to a different scary second for Sasha Obama, in a March 2025 look on “Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce,” Michelle Obama revealed that her second-born was in a automobile accident one morning whereas she was driving herself to high school. 

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“Sasha acquired T-boned. Actually, her automobile totaled, some woman T-boned her and also you get this name that, ‘Sasha was in an accident, the automobile was totaled,'” Michelle recounted. Fortunately, regardless of driving herself, Sasha was being tailed by her Secret Service brokers, so that they had been capable of assist her out. What’s extra, whereas undoubtedly a daunting second for anybody, Sasha would not appear to have been damage. In any case, the primary time the accident made the information was greater than eight years after her father’s second time period ended. 

All that mentioned, Michelle did share on “Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce” that one in all her first ideas was of the lady who’d brought about the accident. “I believed, ‘Ooh, I hope the girl that hit her is okay.’ As a result of you possibly can think about, proper? Like, you T-bone Sasha Obama, after which there are brokers,” Michelle quipped. A reasonably dramatic second, certainly — however kudos to everybody concerned for maintaining the whole lot beneath wraps for thus a few years.

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Sadly for Sasha Obama, although her automobile accident did not develop into public data till years later, she wasn’t all the time spared from press protection. In 2014, when she was simply 13 years previous, she discovered herself within the headlines after the then-communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher made some very uncalled-for feedback about her and her sister. 

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Taking to Fb, Elizabeth Lauten referred to as out what she noticed as unacceptable costume and habits from the primary daughters at that yr’s Turkey pardoning. “Pricey Sasha and Malia, I get you are each in these terrible teen years, however you are part of the First Household, strive displaying just a little class,” Lauten wrote (by way of ABC). She went on to instruct the then-teenagers, “Act like being within the White Home issues to you. Costume such as you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar.” Yikes. Unsurprisingly, Lauten’s outburst wasn’t precisely well-received — and he or she later issued an apology. “After I first posted on Fb I reacted to an article and I rapidly judged the 2 younger girls in a method that I might by no means have needed to be judged myself as a young person … Please know, these judgmental emotions really haven’t any place in my coronary heart,” she wrote in a follow-up Fb put up (by way of Forbes). Lauten additionally resigned quickly after. 

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Neither Sasha nor Malia ever responded straight. That mentioned, their mother has since spoken concerning the steps taken to guard them from that form of state of affairs within the first place (which is fairly unhappy in itself). In a 2018 interview with Jenna Bush Hager for “Right this moment,” Michelle Obama shared, “You’ll hardly ever see the ladies exterior of public occasions … there have been a set of issues the place we kind of advised the press, ‘Okay, the ladies are gonna be right here.'”

Some might keep in mind that when Barack Obama made his remaining handle as president in January 2017, his youngest little one was nowhere to be seen. That a lot grew to become arduous to disregard when the outgoing POTUS praised each of his daughters for dealing with their circumstances with grace, and the digital camera panned to simply Malia Obama sitting together with her mom, preventing again tears. Cue frantic questions from X customers, asking the place she was. “Watching #ObamaFarewell like #whereissasha ???” wrote one confused viewer. One other shared a GIF of the “Scooby Doo” characters trying to find one thing, with the caption, “Twitter rn looking for out the place #SashaObama is.” Ultimately, CBS Information’ Mark Knoller got here by means of with the reply everybody was searching for. “The place was Sasha? WH Official says she stayed again in DC tonight as a result of she has an examination at college tomorrow morning,” he wrote in an X put up. 

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Unsurprisingly, the web had a subject day with the explanation for Sasha’s absence. One reply summed it up, although: “Normalcy is what they all the time offered beneath actually bizarre circumstances.” Positive sufficient, that was precisely what each Barack and Michelle Obama had mentioned even earlier than his first election victory. Chatting with Individuals, Barack defined, “Our job, greater than something, is to ensure that along with monitoring whether or not or not they’re feeling unhappy or uncared for in any respect, that they are additionally not feeling particular as a result of their dad is working for president.” Michelle had concurred, backing him up with, “That is proper.”

It is by no means been revealed what Sasha ended up getting for that examination, nor has the previous first daughter mentioned how she felt about lacking her dad’s remaining handle. Nevertheless, there is definitely loads to be mentioned for her mother and father’ consistency by means of all of it. 

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Even with all of the ups and downs throughout her time within the White Home, it is protected to say Sasha Obama felt hooked up to it, as did her sister. That is not tremendous stunning when considering one thing their mother shared at Essence Fest 2019. That’s, for almost all of their childhood, the White Home was their household dwelling. 

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Chatting with Gayle King at Essence Fest, Michelle Obama defined that the day of Donald Trump’s first inauguration was a serious rush, as they weren’t capable of transfer any of their issues from the house till the Trump household arrived. Regardless of that, she mentioned of the night time earlier than, “My youngsters come … with their little pals, they usually’re like, ‘Can we now have a sleepover for the final night time?’ And I used to be like, ‘What? A sleepover?‘ … So there’re eight little ladies crying the night time earlier than, and I am like, ‘Okay, okay, y’all, you possibly can have a sleepover, however you have to stand up and get out of this home.” Sadly, issues did not precisely run easily the subsequent morning, and Michelle joked that she’d needed to kick a few of the youngsters out, with each Sasha and Malia nonetheless crying. That mentioned, she additionally understood the place they had been coming from. “I used to be transferring my kids out of the one home they’d actually grown up in, and I feel that that will get misplaced on individuals,” Michelle advised the viewers. 

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After all, Joe Biden’s grandkids are shut with each Sasha and Malia, with Joe as soon as revealing that Maisy Biden and Sasha are besties, so it is doable she returned when her dad’s VP grew to become president himself. That mentioned, the unhappy actuality is it will by no means be Sasha’s dwelling because it had been. Except, after all, she decides to observe in her dad’s footsteps.