Malika S. was born in Algeria and raised in Paris.

She is a member of the French National Assembly. She was elected to the National Assembly in 2010. She will be the second woman to be elected as an MP in the French parliament. Her husband is the former Prime Minister of France, Jean-Claude J. J. Sarkozy. The pair have been married for more than 20 years. They have two children, a son and a daughter-in-law, both of whom live in the U.S.