Mrs Trump’s very saucy set of photos
She posed nude for magazine 20 years ago
SHE has said she admires her husband’s strength and his work ethic.
And now it seems we have discovered what Donald Trump admired when he first met his third wife Melania.
Pictures have emerged showing her posing nude for a French men’s magazine as a 25year-old model, two years before she met the Republican Presidential nominee.
In one, Slovenian-born Mrs Trump stares at the camera wearing only a pair of black heels with her hands strategically placed.
Another photo shows her with her hands on a wall and turning her head as she pouts at the camera, while in a third she is bathed in orange light and wearing only three gold bangles, on her left arm.
The pictures, in the January 1996 issue of Max magazine, were taken by French photographer Ale de Basseville, who said the shoot took place in Manhattan as the future Mrs Trump was establishing herself as a model in the US.
He said that Mrs Trump was ‘super-great and a fantastic personality and she was very kind with me’. Not once did she seem uncom-
‘Fantastic personality’
fortable about posing in the nude, said Mr de Basseville, who took inspiration from Renaissance paintings to do the shoot.
He also wanted to celebrate the beauty of the female body. ‘I think it is important to show the beauty and the freedom of the woman, and I am very proud of these pictures because they celebrate Melania’s beauty,’ he said.
The photos were republished by the New York Post, which ran them on the front page with the headline ‘The Ogle Office’.
Mrs Trump appears in the images under her modelling name Melania K, short for Melania Knauss, her original name.
At the time of the shoot, she had only recently arrived in New York having previously modelled in Paris and Milan.
She met her future husband in 1998 at a party during New York Fashion Week; Mr Trump recalled thinking to himself: ‘Wow! Who is that?’ They married in 2005 and have a son together.
The pictures are not the only time that Mrs Trump has done a revealing photo shoot. In January 2000 she posed for GQ magazine with just a fur rug to hide her modesty. And the following month she posed wearing a red bikini and gold heels for Talk magazine, lying on a carpet on top of what looks like the Presidential seal in a room mocked up to look like the Oval Office.
Mr Trump said in a statement: ‘Melania was one of the most successful models and she did many photoshoots, including for covers and major magazines.
‘This was a picture taken for a European magazine prior to my knowing Melania. In Europe, pictures like this are very fashionable and common.’