Malia Obama showed off her toned midriff in a tight, white crop top while out with a male friend in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday.
The eldest daughter of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama completed the look with a pair of khaki pants and New Balance sneakers.
The funky, baggy trousers contained small holes throughout, while the tiny belly-shirt contained a twist design that left her flat stomach on full display.
The Harvard graduate, 24, kept her eyes hidden in a pair of dark shades and kept her long, braided hair pulled back loosely with a clip.
Fashionable: Malia Obama showed off her toned midriff in a tight, white crop top while out with a male friend in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday
The eldest daughter of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama completed the look with a pair of khaki pants and New Balance sneakers
Revealing look: The funky, baggy trousers contained small holes throughout, while the tiny belly-shirt contained a twist design that left her flat stomach on full display
She and her unnamed pal stopped to get coffee at upscale café Intelligentsia; she went makeup free for the outing, and held her belongings in a white tote bag, which said ‘Circle Line’ on it.
The Harvard graduate, 24, kept her eyes hidden in a pair of dark shades and kept her long, braided hair pulled back loosely with a clip
The two seemed in good spirits as they enjoyed the Los Angeles sunshine and headed to their car afterwards, chatting as they made their way down the street.
Missing from the coffee run was Malia’s boyfriend, Ethiopian DJ Dawit Eklund. Malia recently returned to California after visiting New York City with her music producer beau, as the pair was seen cozying up while taking a stroll around the Big Apple last week.
Malia and Dawit were first linked on July 26, when the two were caught grabbing takeout food together. Since then, they have been pictured side-by-side on numerous occasions.
In August, DailyMail.com exclusive revealed his identity; Dawit, who recently turned 33, is nine years older than Malia.
He is the son of retired State Department officer Jon Eklund, 72, who worked at several US embassies in Africa and his Ethiopian wife Yeshi, 66.
Dawit co-founded Washington, D.C.-based record label 1432 R, which specializes in Ethiopian music. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he is also a registered Democrat.
A 2016 Washington Post article about the label said: ‘Their music seamlessly brings together house music grooves, the stutter of U.K. garage, an uneasy electronic ambience, and – perhaps most notably – Ethiopian folk music.’
Dawit told the paper at the time: ‘Ethiopian music is super distinct. There are only four or five musical scales that they play in; each has its own meaning and attitude and mood.’
A separate Post piece called him ‘one of Washington’s most exciting dance music producers,’ adding: ‘It’s not because he’s splicing styles from around the globe, it’s because he spent a lot of his young life learning how to communicate with different kinds of people.’
Caffeine time: She and her unnamed pal stopped to get coffee at upscale café Intelligentsia
All natural! Malia went makeup free for the outing, and held her belongings in a white tote bag, which said ‘Circle Line’ on it
The two seemed in good spirits as they enjoyed the Los Angeles sunshine and headed to their car afterwards, chatting as they made their way down the street
Missing from the coffee run was Malia’s boyfriend, Ethiopian DJ Dawit Eklund
He was educated at the International Community School in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, before going to George Washington University where he studied International Development in Africa.
Dawit – who also goes by David, the Anglicized version of his name – is one of four children. His father Jon was heavily involved in helping the refugee crisis caused by the war in Sudan in the early 2000s, when hundreds of thousands fled to Ethiopia to escape the fighting.
His mother Yeshi comes from a successful family of business people in Ethiopia. His sister Sara Eklund was featured in a 2019 Vogue article for introducing menstrual cups to Ethiopia.
Malia – who is currently working as a screenwriter on Donald Glover’s upcoming Amazon show – moved to Los Angeles last year, after graduating from Harvard, to pursue a career as a screenwriter.
In March, Donald revealed that he had given the 24-year-old her first job as a writer on his new series, which is reportedly about ‘a Beyoncé-type character,’ with the actor calling her ‘amazingly talented’ and ‘really focused.’
‘She’s just like, an amazingly talented person,’ Donald, 38, who is also known by his stage name Childish Gambino, told Vanity Fair at the time. ‘She’s really focused, and she’s working really hard.’
He did not share how Malia landed the job after she graduated from college but he added that he believed she has a promising future in the industry.
Malia recently returned to California after visiting New York City with her music producer beau, as the pair was seen cozying up while taking a stroll around the Big Apple last week (pictured)
The music producer, 33, co-founded Washington, D.C.-based record label 1432 R and is the son of retired State Department officer Jon Eklund, 72, who worked at several US embassies in Africa and his Ethiopian wife Yeshi, 66
He was educated at the International Community School in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, before going to George Washington University where he studied International Development in Africa
Career-focused: Malia – who is currently working as a screenwriter on Donald Glover’s upcoming Amazon show – moved to Los Angeles last year, after graduating from Harvard, to pursue a job as a screenwriter
In March, Donald revealed that he had given the 24-year-old her first job as a writer on his new series, which is reportedly about ‘a Beyoncé-type character,’ with the actor calling her ‘amazingly talented’ and ‘really focused’
He did not share how Malia landed the job after she graduated from college but he added that he believed she has a promising future in the industry
While Malia – who previously interned on Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls in 2015 and at The Weinstein Company in 2017 – is working as a screenwriter, her younger sister, Sasha Obama, 21, is also building her own life in Los Angeles.
The 21-year-old is studying at the University of Southern California, where she just began her final year, after transferring from the University of Michigan.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed a few months ago that she was in a relationship with Clifton Powell Jr., 24, who is the son of Ray actor Clifton Powell.
Clifton Jr. and Sasha are understood to have met after she relocated to the West Coast, and he is already close with the family, as he has been seen hanging out with Malia a few times in recent months.
In April, Sasha and Malia’s mother, Michelle, opened up about how both of her daughters are all grown up during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Ellen, 64, reminded the former First Lady of how Sasha and Malia had first visited the show when they were little girls who wanted to see the Jonas Brothers. But over a decade later, they’ve graduated from boybands to boyfriends.
‘Now they’re bringing grown men home,’ Michelle said. ‘Now they have boyfriends and real lives and all that stuff. They have grown up right before our very eyes and they are doing well.’
While the mom-of-two gushed about the ‘amazing young women’ her daughters have become – ‘Women, I know! Scary,’ she said – and divulged that they were both now dating, she was much more discreet about the details of their love lives and didn’t share any further details.
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