Melania Trump's American Dream

Harper's Bazaar ^ | Alex Kuczynski

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Melania Trump gazes out of her living room window over the gold tapestry of New York's Central Park. It's late November, and from her spacious apartment, which occupies the top three floors of the 68-story Trump Tower, in Midtown Manhattan, the 843 acres nestled among the gray sea of buildings below seem small, like a wet towel left on the bathroom floor by a teenager.

Melania, 45, dressed in a pink cap-sleeved Antonio Berardi sheath dress and matching Louboutin heels, nods over her shoulder grimly. "That building," she says, gesturing toward another skyscraper under construction at the corner of 57th Street and Park Avenue, two blocks to the east. At almost 1,400 feet, the structure in question already soars some 20 stories over the Trumps' apartment, making it the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. "It is too high, and it looks almost dangerous," she exclaims with a soft sigh. "It is too…much."

[BAW]

"For her own part, Melania has remained largely in the shadows of her husband's campaign. Even when she has joined him on the trail—or for interviews, like the couple's sit-down with Barbara Walters in November—she has been conspicuously quiet. That, Melania tells me, is all by design. "Because of who my husband is, and our life, and also he is number one in the polls—well, you take that all together, and people are very curious about me," she says in her soft, Slovenian accent, her voice set at the level of an aristocrat who knows she doesn't need to speak loudly to be heard. "I'm choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband's job. I'm very political in private life, and between me and my husband I know everything that is going on. I follow from A to Z," she affirms. "But I chose not to be on the campaign. I made that choice. I have my own mind. I am my own person, and I think my husband likes that about me."

[PROCON]

[PJBankard]

LOL

[GnuThere]

The author (I guess Alex is a she), gets in some digs at Donald, but this seems like a pretty nice portrait of Melania overall.

[PJBankard]

[SubMareener]

[Aliska]

Was just reading the spread in the latest Daily Mail. She is growing on me, very lovely and still modelesque at age 49.

I wonder if it is by accident or design. A real scoop. The issue will come out January 19. Iowa primaries start on February 1. Couple weeks to consider her loveliness in the White House.

[PJBankard]

I was going to post that as well, but the blowup elephant was kinda weird.

[jennychase]

With GOP symbol.

[hoosiermama]

Haven’t seen this one before. Is it new?

[onyx]

NICE article!
T T T T ! ! ! ©

[DoughtyOne]

[SubMareener]

YES! Definitely NOT a Democrat! ;-)

[onyx]

Yes, new!

[Bratch]

[PROCON]

The lady is definitely classy, and then some.

[Gator113]

It’s going to feel kinda strange not seeing a first lady that’s not wearing jungle clothes and monster belts.....but I’ll get used to it. ;>)

[hoosiermama]

Won’t we all! Expect ladies to be ladies again

[Albion Wilde]

[HarleyLady27]

After Hillary, and then moosebutt, Melania is going to be the cherry on the sundae...

I can't wait to have class, grace, beauty, intelligence back in our Country again...

Can you imagine the Foreign Leaders coming here to have a State Dinner with this much class after the crap we have had to endure with the Clintons and obumas?

GO.TRUMP.GO!!!