**By Jo Knowsley
Life for the new President’s young daughters, Sasha and Malia, is about to be transformed in more ways than they can imagine. Woman’s Day takes a look at what life in the White House holds for them.**
As the armoured car carrying Barack Obama sweeps up the long drive towards the Oval Office, the new US President and his beautiful wife Michelle could be forgiven for reflecting on just how much their lives are about to change.
But the little girls huddled together excitedly in the back of “Cadillac One” can have no realisation of what lies ahead. Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, are now the First Daughters of America, and the youngest inhabitants of the White House since Amy Carter, who was nine when she moved in after her father Jimmy became president in 1977. And, like all children who grow up in the White House, their lives are set to be an extraordinary mixture of harsh restrictions and amazing opportunities.
“The long road to the White House brought us closer together as a family,” President Obama has said, adding that “the most fun I can have is just sitting there watching my girls play or talking to them about their worries.”
But how do two little girls who grew up in Chicago go from being fairly normal children with $1-a-week pocket money to becoming the most famous “tweens” in America, living at the world’s most famous address?
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