Enigmatic, somewhat cold, calculating, impregnable… Melania Trump is a sum of mysteries. For this reason, the imminent release of his memoirs has become an obsession for many Americanswhich they hope to find in its 256 pages an answer to the enigmas surrounding Donald Trump’s wife. The Slovenian former model, aged fifty-four, has already broken a record in the online pre-sale of your book. Melania will arrive in bookstores next October 8 with the promise of revealing the whole truth about her “childhood in Slovenia, the key moments that took her to the top of Haute Couture in Europe and New York and her chance meeting with Donald Trump.”
If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today, and he was looking for one of the beautiful, cerebral, distant blondes who star in his films, would find a new muse in Melania Trump. Accustomed to silence and shadows, Melania is taking steps forward to promote her book on very significant dates. Next November 5 elections are held in the United States and her husbandthe 45th President of the United States, seeks re-election four years after leaving the White House.
© GETTY IMAGESAccustomed to the discretion of Melania Trump, who has always preferred that all objectives focus on her husband, the shower of crowds that she is willing to receive in the coming days is surprising. For now, his memoirs seek a first objective: dbanish my storyMichelle Obama’s autobiography which sold more than ten million copies worldwide. The expectation is maximum, although the promotion strategies are different. Melania Trump’s more reserved character has not prevented, however, many from waiting like May rain for her copy. The promotional video, just 48 seconds long, in which he appears in an elegant double-breasted houndstooth blazer, whetted the appetite of those who still did not know if the book would offer a compendium of curiosities and revelations capable of unleashing hundreds of headlines. It seems that this is how it will be.
“Writing these memories – says the former model with her gaze fixed on the camera – It has been a deeply personal journey for me.“. And he adds: “I have been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentations (…) I feel the responsibility to clarify the facts. I think it’s important to share my perspective. The truth”.
© GETTY IMAGESMelania Trump, despite being in promotion time, continues measuring with a dropper where to appear and what to say in each public intervention. In another video posted on his social networks, he answers one of the questions he was asked the most. before Donald Trump won the 2016 election: having appeared naked, in 2000, on the cover of a special issue published by a British men’s magazine. “Are we no longer able to appreciate the beauty of the human body?” asks the voice in off of Melania Trump while viewing images of works of art such as David, by Michelangelo, or Lady Godiva, by John Collier. “We should honor our bodies and embrace the timeless tradition of using art as a powerful means of self-expression.”
Also these days, and during an interview with Ainsley Earhardt of Fox News – her first appearance in a media outlet in the last two years –, has confirmed that she fully supports her husband’s decision to run for president, although she has not been very present throughout the campaign, and has explained how she found out about the two attacks that her husband suffered in recent months. Regarding the one on July 13, she confessed that she was not watching television, but that as soon as she found out she managed to contact her husband by phone. “I think something was watching over him. It’s almost as if the country needed him,” he said, while calmly but firmly asking for an end to the violence: “The country needs to unite.”
© GETTY IMAGESOf all the videos she has recently uploaded to announce the release of her memoirs, there is only one in which she allows herself to be vulnerable. It is about the one in which talks about motherhood and of the arrival of his son Barron Trumpborn March 20, 2006: “The lessons I have learned from this experience are profound and have changed me in ways I could never have imagined.”
The great unknowns
At this time of electoral contest, already a month after knowing whether Donald and Melania Trump will return, or not, to inhabit the White House for four more years, the memoirs of the former First Lady suggest that, finally, an answer will be given to some of the great unknowns that have surrounded Melania Knauss, her maiden name, for years.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, many stories have been told about her, but the book could deny some details that are taken as true, point out others, and clarify such controversial issues as the way he followed to obtain his green cardin 2000.
© GETTY IMAGESPrior to her autobiography, some aspects of her life have been taken for granted, but now their veracity remains to be verified through the words of Melania herself. It has always been said that she was born in the Novo Mesto hospital, in Sevnica (Slovenia), on April 26, 1970. And that she was the second daughter of a couple formed by Viktor Knavs, a driver, and Amalija Ulcnik, a seamstress. They did not live in opulence, but they did not suffer great needs either.. As recalled by a primary school classmate of the former First Lady, Diana Kosar: “We had a very nice childhood. It was a calm environment. We had almost everything we needed (…) Melania was very good at everything that was creative.” In those years, and guided by her mother, she became the girl who best dressed her dolls, because she drew the designs and, later, cut and sewed them. From this childhood passion, perhaps came his predilection for the world of fashion.
Very soon, Sevnica, with 5,500 inhabitants, became too small for him and he decided to move to the capital, Ljubljana, where he began to study Architecture. One of her university professors from those years spoke to Univisión about her and remembered her in the following way: “She is, without a doubt, a very intelligent woman.. “No one can apply to our faculty if they are not intelligent enough (…) You must have a very high IQ.”
© GETTY IMAGESBut, although it is also a controversial point in his biography, he never finished the race. Between Architecture and modeling, Melania Knauss opted for the catwalks. When she was very little, she had paraded with the designs of the textile factory where her mother worked. At the age of seventeen, a photographer discovered her on the streets and photographed her, but it was not until she was twenty-two that more doors opened for her. In 1992, he won second place in the ‘Face of the Year’ contest. Bernarda Jeklin, one of the jury members, described her like this: “The only thing that fascinated me were his eyesyes. He has aggressive eyes, but not cat eyes. At that time she had the eyes of a tigress, dangerous eyes… She was very skinny.”
That second prize, in a recognized beauty contest, caused Melania to pack her bags and seek fortune in some of the most important cities in the world of fashion, such as Paris or Milan. During those years of searching for a bright future, she met Paolo Zampolli, a millionaire living in New York and a modeling agent. Zampolli offered Melania the possibility of working in the United States and she accepted the challenge, because she always had her personal background in mind. American Dream. In 1998, Zampolli invited Melania to one of the parties organized during New York Fashion Week. Precisely, in that environment of beauty, luxury and sweet lifeZampolli acted as Cupid and introduced Donald Trump to Melania. At that time, Trump was 52 years old and she was 28. A few years after that first meeting, he chose the environment of the Big Apple to get engaged to the model. On January 22, 2005, they celebrated their opulent wedding at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach residence that the magnate acquired in 1985. On her big day, Melania chose a dress created by John Galliano for Dior. The design, in off-white satin with pleats and ruffles, valued at more than $150,000, had 1,500 diamonds and pearls embroidered, so it weighed more than twenty-three kilos.
© The White House via Getty ImagesWill you talk in your memories about what you felt that day? Of your feelings? Reserved to the core, there is less left to discover to what extent she will really make herself known through her writing. One of the few times she has spoken about her marriage, Melania confessed: “We are both very independent. I let him be who he is and he lets me be who I am. I don’t try to change him. He’s an adult. He knows the consequences. I I give him my opinion many times.” In less than a week it will be known to what extent Melania Trump reveals the real ins and outs of his mysterious heart.
