Before Melania Trump was the First Lady, she had a career as a model, and like any hard-working woman, she had to hustle to pay the bills. While anyone has a résumé of previous jobs that follows them, there's a big difference when your résumé comes in the form of photos, especially magazine covers. With this in mind, New York Post recently unearthed an 18-year-old New York Magazine cover that features Melania before she married Donald Trump. The magazine cover apparently was a tribute to 9/11 and captured Melania as a woman showing her gratitude to the firefighters of New York, or more specifically, one firefighter, with a kiss.
The response has been divided.
While other First Ladies may have taken a more political or academic route to becoming the most-watched woman in America, Melania Trump walked a different path. Born in Slovenia, then-Melania Knauss modeled for her mother, who was a fashion designer.
Later, Melania ventured to the capital, Ljubljana, after she was discovered as a teenager by professional photographer Stane Jerko, who helped to launch her career.
She then steered away from her mother's business to model for bigger names, working in Paris and Milan before moving to the United States in 1996.
It was in New York that Melania met a real estate developer and began to date him, blissfully unaware that she would end up alongside him at the center of attention in the White House. Melania and Donald Trump didn't get married right away, though, and it was during this time of dating that New York Magazine asked Melania to appear on their cover.
According to the New York Post, journalist Matt Haber had to remind the mag that the model they hired ended up becoming one of the most famous women in the world. New York Magazine reflected on their own website,
"The female model we'd hired was a pretty young Slovenian named Melania Knauss, who had been dating a New York real-estate developer on and off for several years, and married him a couple of years after that."
The now-infamous New York Magazine cover was pitched as a tribute to the firefighters who responded on 9/11. Even in the wake of the devastating events, the cover is remarkably playful, tying the firefighter tribute scenario into Valentine's Day for the February issue.
According to the New York Post, the 2002 cover was also a modern remake of the famous V-J Day photograph, where the Navy soldier smooches the nurse, except instead of the male figure practically overpowering the female figure, this photo features the woman apparently pursuing the man.
While Melania was a paid model for the shoot, the guy on the cover was a real-life firefighter, one who still currently works in New York. His name is Daniel T. Keane, and at the time of the photograph, he was working on Engine 1, Ladder 7 of the New York City Fire Department, according to the New York Post. Since his famous smooch, Keane has worked his way up and is now an FDNY battalion chief, a chief who happened to kiss the First Lady. Not too shabby.
Of course, Melania Trump's New York Magazine cover isn't the only photo that's surfaced since she became First Lady. There have been others, showing far racier content than just kissing a firefighter.
In response to a recent tweet about Melania's New York Magazine cover, comments flooded in. Some people loved the photo, while others weren't so peppy. One person commented,
"Well, at least she has clothes on, for a change."
Another person simply wrote,
"She is not a Lady."
Someone else went even further, writing,
"Jeez, she looked kind of fat."
First of all, body-shaming is never okay. Secondly, no matter what your political views are, it seems remarkably unfair that Melania is being judged for modeling work she got hired to do 18 years ago. It's in the past! Just let her live.
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