The
way things go in the US elections the former model Melania Trump née Knavs could
be the next Jackie Kennedy!
Who
is the lady that could become the Second Foreign-Born First Lady? This would be a second time in
almost 200 years, after Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams — wife of the
sixth U.S. President John Quincy Adams — who was in the Office from
1825 to 1829. Catherine was born near Tower Hill London, England.
Melania
Knavs was born in SFR Yugoslavia in 1970, in Sevnica, in Slovenia's Lower
Sava Valley. Knavs studied design and architecture at the University of
Ljubljana in Slovenia. She began her modeling career at age 16, and at age
18 signed with a modeling agency in Milan, Italy working as
a model for fashion houses in Milan and Paris before relocating to New York
City in 1996.
Knauss
subsequently appeared on the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Ocean
Drive, In Style, New York Magazine, Avenue, Allure, Vanity
Fair, Self, Glamour, GQ, Elle, FHM, and was featured as a
bikini model in the 2000 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. As a model, she was
associated with several well-known modeling agencies, including Donald Trump's Trump
Model Management.
Melania
met Donald Trump at a Fashion Week party in New York City
in September 1998. After becoming engaged in 2004, Donald Trump and Melania Knavs
were married on January 22, 2005. Knavs and Trump have one son, Barron, 9,
who reportedly knows English and Slovenian. Melania — who’s fluent in English,
Slovenian, Serbian, French and German — sometimes refers to him by his
nickname, “Mini-Donald,” due to his like for suit and ties.
She
became a U.S. permanent resident in 2001 and a citizen in 2006.
The
45-year-old wife of 69-year-old billionaire businessman Donald has kept a low
profile throughout his presidential campaign thus far – but that could all be
about to change. Melania Knavs Trump is garnering a considerable amount of
attention as her husband Donald Trump continually makes progress in the
2016 Presidential Race.
If
Trump's steamroller success in the Republican
primaries continues and he becomes the party's official nominee for the
White House, Melania will be unable to keep avoiding the limelight. And even
the smartest and the strongest spouses can trip up on the trail – Hillary
Clinton caused a stir during husband Bill's presidential campaign in 1992 by
appearing to deride women who stay home and "bake cookies".
Asked
last month what to expect from her if her husband makes it all the way to the
White House, Melania responded: "We are in the 21st century. I will be me.
I will be different than any other first ladies. I will help women. I will help
children. They are the future."
So
what else do we know about the mystery that is Melania?
She
could be the next Jackie Kennedy: Insiders warn that Slovenian ex-model
should not be underestimated. Jackie Kennedy biographer Pamela Keogh told the Daily
Mail that, just like JFK's iconic wife, Melania is "beautiful, smart
and keeps her own counsel", with a chic fashion sense. As far back as
2000, Melania told the New York Times that if she were ever first
lady, she would be "very traditional – like Betty Ford or Jackie
Kennedy".
She
would be the only first lady to have posed nude: In 2000, Melania was
photographed in the buff for a GQ photoshoot - one memorable image had her
handcuffed to a briefcase on board then-boyfriend Trump's private jet. As far
as anyone can tell, she would be the first first lady to let the public see so
much of her, although Pat Nixon and Betty Ford both had (clothed) modelling
careers.
She's
a charmer: Melania appears to win over everyone she meets, from her hairdresser
- who describes her as "incapable of being mean" - to well-known
names. Among her chief admirers is Wendi Deng, the former Mrs Rupert Murdoch,
who enthused in an email to the New York Times: "[Melania's] a
supportive wife, great mother and a lovely person." Even veteran gossip
columnist Liz Smith has nary a bad word to say about Mrs Trump, calling her a
"very, very nice person".
She
supports her husband's hardline stance on immigration: Although it's not
surprising for a candidate's wife to back her husband's policies, some were
taken aback by Melania's enthusiasm for Trump's tough rhetoric on migrants,
having immigrated to the US herself. "I follow the law," she told an MSNBC interviewer.
"I never thought to stay here without papers." When pressed about her
husband's questionable comments on "criminals" crossing the border
into the US, she was equally unfazed. "I don't feel he insulted the
Mexicans," she said. "He said 'illegal immigrants.'"
But
she does wish he would "act more presidential": During a rally in
Arizona last weekend, Trump told the crowd that both Melania and his eldest
daughter, Ivanka, don't entirely approve of his behaviour. "My wife and my
daughter said to me, 'Act presidential! Act presidential!'" he said.
Melania insists she isn't shy when it comes to giving her husband political
advice. "I give him my opinions, many, many times," she told CNN last
month. "I don't agree with everything that he says but you know, that is
normal," she added. "I'm my own person, I tell him what I think. I'm
standing very strong on the ground on my two feet and I'm my own person. And I
think that's very important in the relationship."
Finally,
if entered the White House Melania who is 5’11” (180,3cm), would be one of the
tallest First Ladys. She would tie with Michelle Obama and Eleanor Roosevelt
who were both 5’11”, as well.
Though,
some in USA think that she is married to probably one of the worst people on
the planet, and they can only hope she never becomes First Lady, we are hoping
that Trump, who has said “We created chaos, we should not have attacked Serbia”
gonna be the next President of USA, and gorgeous Melania Trump is going
to be the next First Lady.
Srečno Melania – Срећно Меланија!
Sources: Wikipedia, The Week, Realtimepolitics, Heavy, SouthFront
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