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Leave Malia Obama Alone!

18 year olds drinking isn't news.

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I wish I had a dollar for every article claiming Malia Obama is off the deep end. I've seen numerous articles saying she's smoking a ton of pot and playing beer pong at frat houses and dancing provocatively at music festivals. I wonder if any of the writers of these invasive articles have ever drunk or smoked or danced?

Malia is an 18-year-old girl. An 18-year-old who happens to be the president's daughter. Just because she is the daughter of the leader of our country doesn't mean she has to be a prude and sit still and look pretty. She's entitled to have a fun life like every other college freshman. If she was "ruining her life," she wouldn't be attending Harvard. Shame on whoever is taking these pictures of her to sell to low-life, sleazy paparazzi like TMZ. How would you feel if people were watching your every move and just waiting on you to slip up? Let Malia be a teenage girl. I can count the people I know who didn't do/haven't done any of the above in college on one hand. And to all the adults shaming her on Facebook, get your head out of the tabloids and realize your high school/college age child is doing the exact same thing. Malia, keep having fun, girl.

Sincerely,

A college girl doing the exact same thing.

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