Malala Yousafzai and Asser Malik Answer Playful Questions About Each Other as They Celebrate 4th Wedding Anniversary
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Erin ClackNovember 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Malala Yousafzai and husband Asser Malik celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary on Nov. 9
To mark the occasion, Yousafzai shared an Instagram post featuring a video of the couple answering playful questions about each other.
She also reflected on how she "didn't believe in marriage" until meeting Malik
Malala Yousafzai and her husband, Asser Malik, are celebrating four years of marriage.
To mark their wedding anniversary on Sunday, Nov. 9, the human rights activist, 28, shared an Instagram post reflecting on how she "didn't believe in marriage" until meeting Malik, 31 — and how he swayed her opinion.
"I once wrote that I didn’t believe in marriage. Then I met someone who made me laugh too much to keep that opinion ❤️," Yousafzai wrote.She added: "Four years later, still always laughing with you, Asser. Happy anniversary!"
The Nobel Prize laureate's post also included a playful video in which the couple answered 14 questions for their fourth anniversary. In the video, they stand side by side as a person behind the camera asks them a series of questions, which Yousafzai and Malik respond to by pointing at each other.
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According to the couple's answers, Malik apologizes first after a fight, Yousafzai is the "funny one" in the relationship and Malik is "more romantic" and "patient." When asked who is the better cook, the pair hilariously reacted by both making faces and giving thumbs-down signs.
During the Q&A, they also revealed that Yousafzai said "I love you" first, and they both playfully accused the other of taking the longest to get ready in the morning and being "the messy one."
In a separate Instagram Stories post, Yousafzai — who is in the middle of a press tour to promote her new memoir, Finding My Way — revealed that the couple visited Lou Malnati's in Chicago for some deep-dish pizza on their anniversary, which she jokingly described as a "carb overload."
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Malala Yousafzai (left) and Asser Malik at the 2025 ELLE Style Awards in London
Yousafzai previously opened up to PEOPLE about the early days of her and Malik's romance — and how she kept their relationship a secret at first. She said she fell in love with Malik, a cricket manager, while studying at Oxford University.
The couple chose to date in private, afraid of sparking controversy in their native Pakistan, where such romances are not socially acceptable.
"Asser's arrival vanquished the dark clouds that hung over the prospect of my third term at Oxford, but it wasn't exactly the carefree summer romance of rom-coms, as I worried a lot about getting caught," she wrote in her book.
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Asser Malik (left) and Malala Yousafzai at the L.A. premiere of 'Bread & Roses' on Nov. 14, 2024
Then in the summer of 2019, she finally confided in her father about Malik, telling him, "I like him, Dad. I like him… romantically."
In Finding My Way, Yousafzai told PEOPLE, she wanted to detail her changing views on marriage, an institution she long regarded with suspicion on behalf of undereducated women and girls whom she says can be trapped by it.
She said finding love with Malik opened her up to the idea of marriage for herself.
"If you find the right person, and you and your partner have mutual understanding about how this is going to be a journey together, and you will be looking after each other and making each other's life happier than before, it can work out really well," she explained.
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She and Malik wed in a small Islamic ceremony in November 2021 at her parents' home in Birmingham, England. She recalled watching in amazement as Malik's cellphone "buzzed itself to death" after she announced their marriage online.
Since then, the pair haven't been shy about sharing their love for each other publicly. When Yousafzai turned 26 in July 2023, Malik wrote to her on X: "Happy Birthday Malala. You don’t need any reminders of how amazing you are. But for what it’s worth you are the best partner I could have ever hoped for."
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