This book gives a very revealing look at the First Lady, her upbringing, her intelligence and her cunning. ( )

Who is Melania?? What kind of beliefs does she hold??
I still don't know. Melania seems to be a woman who lives within the story she has woven for herself, much like her husband, Donald Trump, whose entire life and career has been built on fabrication.
Throughout the biography, Melania repeats over and over that she is smart, she is her own woman and does what she wants, and that she is not controlled by Donald. Just reading this, you can see the fallacies and holes of her claims. Melania has had to publicly endure her husbands very public affairs, and has constantly allowed Trump to disrespect her and her integrity.
In her own way, Melania is her own woman, as she repeated tells us. She has been featured in many photo spreads and on magazine covers. She has also been in several Television advertisements, on billboards and in some small movie parts.
Melania is known, to her friends and family, as a very private person, and prefers to have a very small group of close friends. She has worked with many people throughout her career, but when the work is done, they never hear from her again. She is careful to keep a distance from family, except her sister, who lives near her. She does not have many long-time friends.
Melania has different opinions than her husband on immigration and chain migration, being an immigrant herself, attempting to get her parents to the US as her husband is fighting against immigrants. Her main concern moving forward, is that her son with Donald, Barron, will not be forgotten or excluded from the family legacy.
This quick read will probably not reveal much new material for readers, but its interesting to find that Melania is not much different than her husband, in character, but is different in how she expresses her opinions. ( )

All about mysterious Melania. And she is and probably likes it that way to some extent. Written by Mary Jordan of the Washington Post. Of course the Post is even-handed about everything Trump. Well maybe not. Jordan does seem to portray the first lady in a more or less neutral light. However there are plenty of barbs to go around; like especially the dirt she could dig up from the domestic help that is not all that flattering.

Melania Knauss from a very early age was one tracked in her modeling career aspirations. And like say a golfer we all know with a similar mission in life from that early age we know it can be what it takes to make it big on the biggest stage. That was Melania, yet it was not all that easy as she had to really focus and push to get her breaks. And what advanced her career significantly was a meeting with a wealthy stage player himself. Funny how connections work toward advancement.

It is clear she keeps her own counsel not going far beyond her narrow focus of interest being her mother, father; and light of her life, young Barron. Oh yes and there there is her husband, much more of a partnership it seems. However she has carved out her own identify for herself not buckling under the elephant in the room; figuratively and literally El Presidente. He does listen to her opinion and she does influence. Admiringly she has set her own course by at times outdoing the master negotiator and stable genius.

So in sum we have a book that neither flatters or detracts too significantly but paints the portrait of a woman who maybe reluctantly at first demurred from the stage of the political spotlight and has nonetheless taken that stage and set her own parameters. Melania is and will be her own person regardless of what the future holds and has skillfully managed to more or side step the steamroller of the press. ( )

Somewhat disjointed account of how Melania Trump of Slovenia became wife of Donald J. Trump and First Lady of the United States of America. ( )

I found this to be a fascinating look at our first lady. According to this book, Melania Trump is no one to pity - she is ambitious and knows exactly what she is doing. She is also more like her husband than not, so their "marriage" benefits them both. Of course, this does not mean we should like her or even respect her which I do not. However, I did give her some leeway until I read this book. She deserves all she gets - from the money to the Stormy Daniels & Karen MacDougals. ( )