Melania’s top adviser in scare

FIRST Lady Melania Trump’s top adviser, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, has been secretly going through a terrible health scare while working between Washington and New York.

Winston Wolkoff, the first lady’s senior adviser and chief strategist, has undergone two spinal-cord fusion surgeries after suffering a herniated spine that caused pain and numbness. She spent a month at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

The former Vogue Met Ball mastermind and founding fashion director of Lincoln Center — dubbed “General Winston Wolkoff” by Anna Wintour — works with the East Wing and is tasked with special projects, events, communica- tions and scheduling for the first lady. She also worked as chief creative and strategic officer for President Trump’s inauguration.

We’re told Winston Wolkoff, 46, was involved in a car accident before starting at Vogue in 1996, hurting her neck, and has been in physical therapy ever since. But she started to experience more pain after working tirelessly on the inauguration and planning the Trumps’ first White House event, the Governor’s Ball.

On March 2, she and the first lady visited New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, where Mrs Trump read a Dr. Seuss book to ailing kids. The next day, Winston Wolkoff started to experience paralysis on the left side of her body, was admitted to the same hospital and had an extensive series of tests. She had two surgeries to insert metal rods in her spine, cared for by a team led by Dr. Dexter Sun.

Mrs. Trump said in a statement to Page Six, “Stephanie was in the best hands at NYP Hospital, and speaking with Stephanie daily reassured me that she would be fine. I was only a phone call away if she needed me.”

While Winston Wolkoff declined to comment, a source said, “After Stephanie was admitted to the hospital on March 10, she was discharged against advice to attend the UN-Women-for Peace Association event . . . She planned International Women’s Day from a bed while in the hospital for four weeks . . . She is still in recovery.”