In 1998, Melania met businessman Donald Trump. The young woman immediately caught the eye of her future husband. The successful top nevertheless played the inaccessible women…
This is the story of a first encounter that is altogether banal. In 1998, the path of Melania Trump, then a model, crossed that of Donald Trump during a social event organized in New York. Tatler magazine returned to this first meeting, told by Melania and Donald Trump themselves in 2005 to journalist Camilla Long. When she first met Donald Trump, Melania Knauss had been living in New York for two years. Donald Trump, who was immediately charmed by “this girl sitting on his left”.
He was then warned: "Friends of mine, Italian playboys, told me: 'Don't waste your time - we've all tried. She prefers to stay at home. I asked, 'Is that a good sign or a bad sign?' Because I've also been with girls that everyone else has been with. I had already seen her (Melania, editor's note), on the catwalks and others, but her beauty completely amazed me, ”he recalls. Melania Trump then pretends to be totally insensitive to the charm of Donald Trump. "He asked for my number but I didn't give it to him," she recalled. Then she adds, "I knew who he was and I guess... he had all these women around him." However, Melania Trump changed her mind, contacting the businessman after “a few days”.
“He is a very handsome and s-xy guy”
During this interview, Melania Trump had also denied the rumors according to which the money and the notoriety of Donald Trump attracted her. Indeed, Melania Trump assures that she earned a good living thanks to the various contracts she had signed for brands in particular swimwear and lingerie. She was not short of money. “I hear ridiculous stories about me, namely, that I was not a successful model. That I had no money and that's why I'm with Donald, "she laments. At the time, Melania Trump, 34, was full of praise for the one she had just married. “He is a very handsome and s-xy guy. Of course, he would like his hair to be healthier, but we would all like to change something about ourselves, right? she blurted, very amorous.
