Melania-Michelle: the shock of "first ladies" styles
In parallel with the meeting between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, the wives of the two presidents also spoke. It is an understatement to say that between the ultra-popular Michelle Obama - who had literally packed Hillary Clinton's campaign with a remarked speech against the sexist remarks of Donald Trump - and the shy Melania Trump, the styles are far apart. Two women with radically different backgrounds, but also with very different conceptions of the place of women in society. Feminist, brilliant lawyer, very good speaker, the charismatic Michelle Obama has always existed on her own, playing alongside Barack Obama a first lady of her time; and putting its dynamism at the service of causes such as the most disadvantaged or the fight against childhood obesity.
Melania Trump - born Melanija Knavs in Novo Mesto, Slovenia - started a modeling career at age 23 and emigrated to the United States in 1996. Three years later, she met Donald Trump who married her in 2005. They have a son , Barron William the following year, during which she became an American citizen.
Uncomfortable in public - she had copied and pasted a speech by Michelle Obama for the Republican convention - very withdrawn, Melania spoke little. In a rare interview, she explained, if her husband was elected, wanting to be a “very traditional first lady. Like Betty Ford or Jackie Kennedy. ” But it would be wrong to see her as a "little thing". “People don't know me. Don't have mercy on me. I'm not scared of anything…"
