Sources close to President Trump's wife say that life as a first lady "was not her dream" and that it is "a lot to deal with."
Not even a month has passed since Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the United States, although so many things have happened that it seems like an eternity since the billionaire moved into the White House.
The president and his children, Eric, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., and even his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have been making headlines. The only notable absentee in all this commotion has been Melania Trump.
The Slovenian-born former model has kept a low profile and continues to live in her $100 million apartment in the Trump Tower in New York while waiting for her son, Barron, 10, to finish the school year.
The first lady's public appearances have been few, so it was striking to see her on Wednesday receive the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his wife together with her husband. Sara.
The scrutiny of the press, her scandalous nude photos and the jokes that have been the subject of her - such as the epithet by presenter Jimmy Kimmel comparing her to Rapunzel trapped in Trump Tower - have not helped Melania at all.
"This life was not her dream. It was Donald's," said the French stylist Phillip Bloch, known for his work with multiple Hollywood stars, to the US Weekly magazine. "Honestly, it is a lot to deal with."
According to the publication, the White House staff had to beg Melania to appear on the traditional tours of the presidential residence that the first lady offers and then take some photos for the press. Despite the pressure, the president's wife said no.
They could not convince her to accompany the wife of the Japanese Prime Minister, Aki Abe, to the traditional visit to the Capitol that the couples of the dignitaries who visit Washington D.C. make, assured US Weekly.
Little is known about Melania's life away from her husband, other than that she lives surrounded by the Secret Service, who accompany her to drop off her son at a prestigious school in Manhattan and that she recently hired a decorator to give the White House a new look in anticipation of her move, which is expected to happen at the end of Barron's school year in June.
We'll see what happens.
