5 Things you need to know about US future First Lady Melania Trump

Throughout the election, Donald Trump’s wife Melania kept out of the spotlight. With the exception of a few high-profile events… the debates, the convention… she preferred to stay off the campaign trail, instead caring for their son Barron at home in New York.

But following the shocking election of her husband, we’re left wondering what kind of First Lady will Melania be? Will she champion a cause, or opt to fulfill only the more ceremonial roles of first hostess?

Here’s what we know so far.

Cyber Bullying will be her cause.

A 1999 interview implies that Melania envisions the role of First Lady to be largely ceremonial. ”I would be very traditional. Like, Betty Ford or Jackie Kennedy. I would support him,” she told the New York Times. But toward the end of the election cycle, Melania shared that she planned to make cyberbullying one of her “main focuses.”

She’s an immigrant.

Born in part of the former Yugoslavia that later became Slovenia, Melania will be only the second immigrant First Lady in our country’s history. The first was John Quincy Adams’s wife, Louisa Adams, who grew up in London. She will also be the first First Lady to have been born in a communist state and she speaks four languages fluently.
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She’s a former model.

Melania got her start in the fashion world early, appearing in her first commercial at 16. Just two years later, she was signed by an agency in Milan and began to travel for photo shoots throughout Europe. Over the course of her career, she’s been on the cover of numerous magazines including Allure, Vogue, and GQ, and appeared in the 2000 Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated. In fact, some of her risqué spreads were even used as anti-Trump ads during the campaign, a strategy criticized by many women as anti-feminist.

Motherhood is important to Melania.

As I mentioned above, Melania is hardly a typical modern political spouse, preferring life at home with Barron to the stresses of the campaign trail. “I don’t have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that’s it. I do it myself,” she told Harpers Bazaar. “You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if it’s just the two of you, being quiet in the car together.”

She and Donald don’t agree on everything.

While she preferred to keep her political views to herself during the campaign, Melania maintains that she and her husband don’t see eye to eye on everything. “I don’t agree with everything that he says but you know, that is normal,” she told CNN. “I’m my own person, I tell him what I think. I’m standing very strong on the ground on my two feet and I’m my own person. And I think that’s very important in the relationship.”
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