half sister:
(plural: ‘half sisters‘; male: ‘half brother’)
a sister related through one parent only, i.e. when the father of a person marries another woman or the mother marries another man and the daughter of the new woman (new mother) and the person’s father or the new man (new father) and the person’s mother becomes that person’s half sister,

Maya Soeoro-Ng, half sister of Obama, the President of the USA
e.g.
It seems that every female celebrity has a half-sister, either in the same profession or popular in their own activity.
There are number of cases where some women claim to be the half-sisters of famous people.
President Obama seems to have a large family with several half-sisters and half-brothers who have made good name for themselves.
For a news article, with a video clip, about President Obama’s half-sister, please click here and for a success story of a woman saving her very young half-sister by donating her liver, please click here.

