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Topics: Melania Trump, Donald Trump, Sex and Relationships, Politics, US News, Celebrity
Rhiannon Ingle
Topics: Melania Trump, Donald Trump, Sex and Relationships, Politics, US News, Celebrity
Melania Trump previously opened up about her 24-year age gap with husband Donald Trump after making a major promise.
Now, the pair first met back in 1998 at the Kit Kat Klub in New York City during Fashion Week before eventually getting engaged in 2004 and married the next year in 2005.
They then welcomed their first child together, Barron Trump, who was born in 2006.
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Following Trump's inauguration last Monday (20 January), which saw the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency, a clip has began circling on social media of an interview with Melania conducted just a year after meeting who would go on to become her future husband - who was 53 at the time.
The interview in question, which aired back in 1999 when she was 29-years-old, saw Melania = who was Melania Knaus back then - explain that she 'pictured' herself as the First Lady.
"You picture yourself the First Lady?" ABC News correspondent Don Dahler asked her, before she replied: "Yes, I will be very traditional, like Jackie Kennedy. I will support him. I will do a lot of social obligations."
Dahler then asked: "If you did become First Lady, it probably wouldn't be ethical for you to give commercial endorsements to products, so your modelling career might be over at that moment. What would you think about that?"
"I will stand by [my] man," Melania declared.
"You'd be willing to give up your modelling?" Dahler reiterated, prompting Melania to confirm 'yes'.
He later asked if she'd been 'hurt' by speculation from people claiming she was only with Trump 'because he's rich', quipping that 'you don't see many 26-year-old supermodels on the arm of 53-year-old car mechanics.
"You know, the people, they don't know me. People who talk like this, they don't know me," Melania explained. "You can't sleep or to hug or to talk with beautiful things, with a beautiful apartment, beautiful plane, beautiful cars, beautiful houses, you can't do that, you could feel very empty."
She added: "And if somebody said, you know, you are with the man because he's rich and famous, they don't know me."
According to ABC News, the mum-of-one also said she found speaking to the media 'tricky' and outlined that she needed to be 'careful'.
"I like to have my private life, too. Yes, but I'm always open. I'm not shy of the media. I'm not shy about the camera. That's my business."
"That's my modelling career. But it sometimes could be very tricky and unpleasant, unfair," she added.