Melania Trump's 50 years: a woman who lives between protocol and rebellion
The image in which Donald Trump, her husband of fifteen years, dodged her hand to avoid walking linked, toured the planet. The world spoke of rudeness. She, immutable, continued as if nothing had happened.
That postcard may be, in part, what defines this powerful woman. And that she suffers. However, Melania Trump, stoic, complies with the rituality of the protocol of the United States showing a harmonious image. Quiet and without questioning, at least for the outside, for that what will they say that, in itself, she says a lot.
However, contrary to popular belief, the American First Lady, who turns 50 today, has remarkable power and influence over her platinum spouse. She empowered, she respects forms, uses and customs, although she carries rebellious blood, as she demonstrated time and again. She to the blows she adapted to the ways of her leader consort and to the troubles of politics. It is clear: she is seduced by power and the powerful, but she belongs to another world. That is why she, countless times, she screwed up on it. Resilient, she always succeeds. Or not so much?
She made herself. Looked down and praised. No middle terms. As are her appearances in front of public opinion. Although she is restrained, she does not go unnoticed by what she says or what she does. Perhaps in spite of her. Almost like a tragic fate. "I am very strong and I know what my priorities are," she said energetically before the most critical voices. She stands when she wants.
And, those who know anything about intimacy in Washington say that her public delicacy contradicts the orders she usually gives to her husband both on a personal and institutional level. Is the fate of the United States in the hands of Melania? Not much, not so little. The beautiful woman who flaunts her elegance weighs heavily on Donald's thoughts, but not as much as some speculate.
Today she will celebrate her five decades without the responsibility of being part of the substantial decisions of the government of her husband. 50 years in which she saw her life change radically. From that humble daughter of a communist father to a powerful, beautiful and controversial woman.
Cut and confection
Melanija Knavs is the name with which she was registered in the former Yugoslavia, on April 26, 1970. Something of the temperance of her people resists in her. Novo Mesto is the name of her hometown, today it belongs to Slovenia. Mundo nuevo is the translation of that land on the banks of the Krka river.
Her childhood and early youth were spent in a small apartment in Sevnica. Her father adhered to leftist parties. And her mother sewed from her, a skill Melania inherited as a seed of her fervent passion for fashion. Her father was an employee at an automobile dealership that with his salary could only pay for the essential expenses of the family.
They lived with the right. Therein lies the germ of their need for independence. Little Melania vowed that she would achieve a good standard of living once she left her parental home. She loved hers, she was a great daughter, but she wanted more. To please her mandate, she studied architecture. But, after a year, she dropped out of the race. She was not his thing.
When she started her modeling career, she became known as Melania Knauss. Precocious, her catwalks welcomed her when she was only 16 years old. In that adolescence, empowered, she began her path to transcendence. With a good eye, Vezenine Bled, the most important clothing house in her country, chose it as her image. As soon as she was seen in tremendous posters on the public highway, she completely forgot the duty to be to advocate on the path of the fulfillment of wishes. Desires her.
American dream
The fashion capitals surrendered to her demeanor and her professionalism. Milan and Paris adopted it. Although she suffered, she moved like a fish in water in that world of rigid codes that hide a powerful industry and fierce competition. But she knew how to defend herself.
Some of the thrust she had to raise there served what she was coming for. New York, 1996. As soon as she arrived at the John F. Kennedy airport, she knew that this would be her place in the world. Like so many, she came to fulfill her American dream. Two years later, at the prestigious Fashion Week, she met Donald Trump. That girl's wakefulness was more than realized.
The transformation
What few know is that, with her arrival in Brooklyn, Melania underwent a true physical mutation. Her hair changed color and gossips say that she grew quickly as a result of the placement of extensions. Also, she would have operated on her breasts. And, by dint of a rigid routine, her body was transforming to meet the demands of an unforgiving universe.
In the meantime, she was looking for her definitive papers since she could not continue on North American soil as a tourist. "I don't parade like that," she snapped at a stylist who wanted to set her pace. Owner and madam, she marked a style with the stiletto. She was driven by impulses and convictions.
Naked
Thanks to those surgeries that turned her into a different woman, she gained confidence, self-assurance and the desire to show herself new. Splendid. In 2000, she was featured nude on the cover of the UK issue of GQ. She was another. She beautiful as always, but another. More essential, without the formal accessories that would later also affect the way she dressed.
Vogue, Harper's Bazaar or Vanity Fair competed to have it. Melania gets along with nudity. She knows she has with what. Therefore, Annie Leibovitch made her eternal with the lens of her in her underwear while she was pregnant. She splendid in the hatch of an airplane with the inevitable stiletto of her and Donald a few feet inside a sports car. A somewhat bizarre and gimmicky scene. So I have to think about and take care of me, "she snapped before whom she dared with the million dollar question.
Polyglot
Among her many intellectual cousins, she is fluent in several languages: Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, French, German and English. In any case, she always takes an interpreter on her trips abroad and at times when protocol forces her to enter into dialogue with personalities around the world.
Dear Mr. New York
On January 22, 2005, she married Donald Trump, the man coveted for his power and his fortune. The Dior wedding dress cost $ 200,000. During her early years, she dedicated herself to raising her son Barron, until the public and political life of her husband was filling her agenda as well.
Her bond with her husband ran through all her stages. Some incidents even claimed that, more than once, they slept in separate beds. "I'm not trying to change it," she once said on CNN cameras. He would be quite jealous, which is why he always sought to have his wife close.
With my son, no
Melania loves her son, Barron Trump, 14. Keeping it out of the reach of public opinion, indiscreet photographs and television shows of her reveals her. This is perhaps what really puts the first lady in a bad mood. She gets upset when the young man is mentioned or brought up for the people's consideration. She feels, and she feels good, that the minor has nothing to do with the public life of her parents.
Presidential privacy
Donald is a man used to beautiful women. There is no shortage of those who get into the intimacy of the conjugal bed and have asserted, on several occasions, that the powerful president would have been unfaithful at some time. "I am a mother and first lady, so there are more important things in him.
Michelle's "inspiration"
Donald aspired to reach the White House as the Republican leader. In 2016, at a party convention, Melania gave a speech. She did very well. They applauded her. Everyone already imagined her in public actions of weight due to the convincing of her verba. But it seems there was a lot of "inspiration" in a speech already said by Michelle Obama.
After a few weeks of absence in front of the focus of the reporters, Melania returned to public life. That remained as one more of her of the many anecdotes of her in that trial and error learning to become the most powerful woman in her country.
Failed gift
It seems that with the nice Michelle things are marked by setbacks. Donald had already been elected president. Shortly before taking office, he and his wife were to visit the White House and have tea with the outgoing president and his wife. It happened like that. They were received by Barack and Michelle Obama.
After the usual greetings, Melania handed Michelle a large box, who, given the discomfort of the object, had to be helped by her husband. Her face of horror, portrayed by the paparazzi, was immortalized. Still, Melania's gift was very expensive. It would be jewelry from a well-known brand, as noted on the box.
What did you wear?
Sexy, with an enviable figure and used to being looked at. However, Melania's wardrobe was not always the most appropriate. Especially in these times where she struggles between the sensuality of her style and her presidential protocol. But, the girl who does not lose her tricks, she appealed to her clothes to rant against the press, or fake news, as clarified by her husband. "I really don't care, do u?" ("I really don't care, do you?") Read his military green jacket when he visited immigrant children on the Mexican border in June 2018. Bad decision and a controversial phrase in the middle of that surprise visit in Texas .
Almost a year earlier, in August 2017, she accompanied her husband to the area most affected by Hurricane Harvey. She is sober, impeccable, and with a 15-centimeter heel shoe. She dead before simple. Her love of fashion, combined with her rebelliousness and the need to adhere to a protocol often combine a failed choice.
This Wednesday the 22nd, she again showed off her beauty and her discretion in the gardens of the White House on the occasion of the celebration of International Earth Day. She humiliated with her good taste, although not a few observed inspirations in other reference women of the glam world such as Meghan Markle. She walked in it with an impeccable bearing. And, of course, she next to her husband, who this time brushed her hand.
Of course, the tree was planted with a needle heel and without a chinstrap, although she was the first member of the family to show herself, days ago, with the cloth protector against the coronavirus pandemic. Today, she and Donald and Barron will blow out the candles on her birthday cake. Her 50s show her splendid, sexy and with much more poise to face public life with a stressful schedule and always in the focus of criticism.
