No first lady in the USA has shied away from the public and shielded her private life as much as she did. But now Melania Trump (54) is spilling the beans.
“He is a real family man. He loves his children,” she said of her husband in her first TV interview in two years Donald Trump (78).
2020: Melania and Donald Trump at the Republican Party Convention, where he was named presidential candidate for the second time
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In the conversation with Fox News presenter Ainsley Earhardt (48), Melania gave insight into her first date with the New York ex-playboy. She cleared up claims that her marriage was fake. And she talked about the assassination attempt that he had miraculously survived.
The rare interview was not part of her husband’s election campaign, but rather on her own behalf. The ex-model, who immigrated to the USA from Slovenia, is marketing her book, which will be published on Monday. Meaningful title: “Melania”.
This is how Melania experienced the attack
She first met the former real estate mogul at a party in New York. Melania only revealed: “I didn’t give him my phone number.” The rest can be read in a whole chapter in the book.
On their first date, he drove an hour and a half with her from Manhattan to Bedford, New Jersey, to look at a property. Melania: “He combined the business with our first date. It was beautiful. Because we were alone and there was no noise around us, no other people. Because he was a celebrity back then.”
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▶︎ … the family man Trump: “He wanted more children. But for me one thing was perfect. I knew he was a very busy man and I had to take care of everything.”
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▶︎ … about his marriage proposal, which he proposed to her on her birthday in 2004: “We had come home after the Met Gala. He was still wearing his suit when he asked me.”
▶︎ … about the approximately 2,000 nude photos she took in her modeling career, some of which may appear in her book: “Nothing prepared me for the job of First Lady like the fashion industry. It’s glamorous and merciless because everyone judges you. It can be very mean and it gives you thick skin.”
In 2016, Melania appeared on the cover of GQ
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▶︎ … about her role in the Trump clan and her relationship with his four children from his first two marriages: “I don’t control my husband. And I don’t control his children. I don’t control my own child. Barron is his own person. We are all individuals. The most important thing is to have respect.”
▶︎ … about the attack on July 13th in Butler (Pennsylvania): “I didn’t see it live, but found out about it a few minutes later. I ran to the TV and then you see him on the floor. And you don’t know what happened.”
▶︎ …about the fact that her husband was just millimeters away from death: “Someone was looking after him. It’s a miracle.”
Donald Trump on the night of his 2016 election victory with his youngest child Barron and his third wife Melania
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It didn’t work without an election campaign. So she oracled about the miracle that he survived two attacks: “The country needs him.”