Melania Trump, the image of the American dream
From exmodelo to first lady. According to experts, the wife of the future US president, will seek to play the role of first lady traditional.
Melania Trump, during the only rally he offered during the campaign.
Michelle Obama already has successor in the White House: Melania Trump. The wife of the tycoon and next president of the United States can say that she has fulfilled her American dream: she has reached the top after spending her childhood in a small town in Slovenia, Sevnica, where she dreamed of a career in fashion .
46, is the antithesis of her husband Donald Trump, as far as personality is concerned: it is extraordinarily discreet, always maintains a calm tone and avoids at all costs getting involved in controversies. Born in Slovenia and exmodel, she will seek, according to experts, to play the role of first lady in the most traditional way possible.
In the incendiary campaign of Donald Trump, whom she married eleven years ago, she has remained as far away as possible from the outbreaks, yielding to Ivanka, the daughter of the multimillionaire's first marriage and one of her principal advisors. It has only given a rally and in the last week of campaign, to ask for the vote of the women in the decisive state of Pennsylvania.
Measuring to the maximum her words, the opposite of what her husband customarily does, Melania has appeared in the few interviews she has granted as a woman devoted to her family and who would maintain a very traditional role.
Her "cause" - all the first ladies have had one - would be "the most needy, especially women and children", but she would set aside time to devote herself to the only child of the marriage, Barron, ten years old, and support her husband.
For many it is a paradox that Trump, a candidate who has scandalized outside and within the country with his xenophobic and ultranationalist rhetoric, can lead the White House to the only first lady born outside the United States. From the wife of former President John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), who was British.
Melania Knauss grew up in a modest apartment in a village near Sevnica (Slovenia). After beginning his modeling career in Milan and Paris, he moved to New York in 1996. Five years later he obtained permanent residency and in 2006 he became a naturalized American.
When asked what she thinks of her husband's comments about immigrants, she has always stressed the difference with those who come to the United States irregularly: she followed "the rules", she respected "the law."