Donald Trump and Melania: the truth about their turbulent love story
Presidential elections in the United States are not resolved in a day or a week, but in months. Primary elections, rallies, conventions and face-to-face debates mark the path of a long and complex electoral process in the North American country that will finally culminate this Tuesday, November 3, in the so-called 'Election Day'.
Today will be the day on which it will be decided whether Republican Donald Trump renews his mandate for another four years in the White House or if, on the contrary, the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, takes the position from him.
In connection with this significant date, we will remember in Dolcevita how the love story between Trump and Melania has been and is.
Fashion brought Melania and Donald Trump together
Melanija Knavs (50), as she is really called, was born in 1970 in Novo Mesto, a large town in present-day Slovenia, then Yugoslavia, which was under the communist dictatorship. There she grew up with her father Viktor, her mother Amalija Knavs, and her sister Inés hers.
Melanija went to Ljubljana to study Architecture and Design at university, but her stature and attractiveness caught the attention of businessman and modeling agency founder Paolo Zampolli, who offered to get her a visa to work in the United States.
Shortly thereafter, in 1996, she left for New York, where her fashion career skyrocketed after meeting the great modeling manager Eileen Ford. With Ford, and with her name westernized by hers, Melania Knauss made a lot of money and was the cover of major magazines like Vogue, Avenue and Harper's Baazar.
Those who knew her at that time say of Melania that she was only in fashion to earn money, and that she took her work very seriously. "She did not party and ate strictly five to seven vegetables and fruits every day and she drank a lot of water. What she wanted was to earn money as a model," said then-roommate of hers, photographer Matthew Atanian.
Fashion is what ended up uniting Melania and Donald Trump (74). In 1998, when Melania was 28 years old, she met Donald Trump at a party held during New York Fashion Week. Trump, then, was 52 years old, with four children and a second divorce on top.
As Melania said in an interview, Trump approached her to ask for her number and she said no, to give him his. Then the magnate, who had come to the party with another woman, gave him all her numbers: the office number, the Mar-a-Lago number, and her house in New York.
After that, they began a romance and she benefited greatly from her career in fashion. It is true that she had never lacked her before, but she never became a top model.
A turbulent courtship
Shortly after that meeting in New York, Melania and Trump began dating. "She was shocked with her energy. She has an impressive vitality. She has a brilliant mind, she is a very intelligent person," she said in those years when they asked her what she liked about her partner.
Everything went well between them until some breakups came, around the year 2000, after she discovered that Trump was dating other women as well, such as the Norwegian businesswoman Celina Midelfart.
In spite of everything, they ended up coming back, and six years after meeting they got married. The 2004 New York Fashion Week was the setting chosen by Trump to make the marriage proposal, with a ring of 1.5 million dollars.
Wedding and an only child
She accepted the marriage petition and the two ended up getting married in 2005, at the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. The link was attended by 400 guests, including personalities such as Heidi Klum and Tony Bennett, the Clintons and royals such as Albert of Monaco and Carlos of England.
In 2006, a year after 'I do', the couple's only child was born, the first for Melania and the fifth for Trump, named Barron William. Melania dedicated herself entirely to her care and education, and she gradually withdrawn from the public scene.
What is truth in her love story?
What we have told you so far is objective data, with dates, places and characters. But if you look at the photos of her, there is a clear difference in her: Melania Trump's eyes no longer have an iota of the joy and liveliness of the beginning of her. Perhaps where there was love today there is only a forced pose.
It is true that when a person grows older they can lose that dose of magic and magnetism, but everything seems to indicate that between the marriage there is little life in common, nothing that unites them, apart from the White House and the child.
The American media always speculate that Melania and Trump lead separate lives, and Google, in this regard, revealed a few years ago that one of the main searches of Americans was "why is Melania Trump always sad?"
— marv (@mvn_dn) January 23, 2017
We don't know what will happen to her, but judging from the photos and her body language, she doesn't seem to appreciate her husband very much.
