Whoopi Goldberg is showing her support for Malia Obama.
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama‘s oldest daughter raised some eyebrows when it was noted that she is selecting to drop her famous last name and professionally go by Malia Ann on her latest project The Heart.
“Apparently some folks online are criticizing her for it,” the View host said in the course of the Feb. 21 episode, “claiming everyone knows she’s an Obama, so it’s pointless to cover it.”
But, as Whoopi noted, Malia is hardly the primary person to alter her name Hollywood. The truth is, Whoopi herself modified her name from Caryn Elaine Johnson as her profession took off.
“If she knows she’s an Obama, why do you care? Why do you care what she calls herself?” she continued. “If she desired to call herself Jeanette MacDonald, she has the correct to! If I might be Whoopi Goldberg, she might be whoever the hell she desires to be!”