Malala Yousafzai featured on British Vogue July issue cover

While giving an interview to the magazine she said going to university “finally” gave her some time for herself.

However discussing her time at university, she said: “I was excited about literally anything. Going to McDonald’s or playing poker with my friends or going to a talk or an event.”

Ms Yousafzai, who was pictured on the British Vogue cover in a red headscarf made the comments in an interview with the monthly.

She revealed that “I was enjoying every moment because I had not seen that much before as, at university, I finally got some time for myself.”

“Never really been in the company of people my age because I was recovering from the incident, and travelling around the world, publishing a book and doing a documentary, and so many things were happening,” she supposed.

Ms Yousafzai said her fame affected her schooling in Birmingham, where she was educated after leaving the home—Pakistan.

“People would ask me things like, ‘What was it like when you met Emma Watson, or Angelina Jolie or Obama?'” she said.

“And I wouldn’t know what to say. It’s awkward because you want to leave that Malala outside the school building, you want to just be a student and a friend.”

Ms Yousafzai, during her conversation also discussed the importance of the garment for her tradition.

“It’s a cultural symbol for us Pashtuns, so it represents where I come from,” she said.

“And Muslim girls or Pashtun girls or Pakistani girls, when we follow our traditional dress, we are considered to be oppressed, or voiceless, or living under the male dominant society.

“I want to tell everyone that you can have your voice within your culture, and you can have equality in your culture.”

Over three days in April, British Vogue spent time getting to know Malala in London.

The Nobel prize holder sat for photographer Nick Knight and filmed a captivating ‘in conversation’ video with Tim, and spoke in detail with journalist Sirin Kale for the cover story.

Malala Yousafzai is the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner. She named the award for her work campaigning for girls to have a universal right to education.

Malala completed her philosophy, politics and economics degree from Oxford University last year.

Ms Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman at the age of 15 after campaigning for girls to be educated in her native Pakistan.