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Stormy Daniels? She doesn’t get a look in. Salacious rumors of a rift with her stepchildren? Not a mention.
But then again, Melania Trump doesn’t typically have much to say.
If you want a real bombshell in her over-hyped new memoir ‘Melania’, check out the old modelling shots from the late 1980s that she’s reprinted – and which seem to suggest the former first lady has enjoyed a big-budget makeover in the intervening years.
Taken in her native Slovenia when Melania was a teenager, the images show a leggings-clad, fresh-faced girl – almost unrecognizable in a police lineup.
Indeed, Melania Knauss (as she was before she became the third Mrs Donald J. Trump) was so striking that she dared to bare it all in several now notorious photoshoots.
1987: Taken in her native Slovenia when Melania was a teenager, the images show a leggings-clad, fresh-faced girl – almost unrecognizable in a police lineup.
2024: Of course, revamps that befit billionaire arm candy tend to be transformative.
That supple Slovenian sphynx now seems worlds away from the cat-eyed glamazon consort we know today.
She appears to have wholesomely embraced an all-American glamor with her Jackie-O power suits and permanent big hair blow-dry.
Of course, revamps that befit billionaire arm candy tend to be transformative.
But when the raw material is so genetically blessed, shouldn’t the approach be one of smaller beautifications that simply gild the lily?
She’s far from alone in being a prominent, famed beauty of a certain age who has hardened over the years.
In an league of her own is Madonna, whose slow, sorry descent into extremity – no doubt encouraged by a coterie of yes people on the payroll, agreeing to the ever more outlandish and skewed demands of the fading megastar – is a sorry sight to behold.
Recently celebrating her 66th birthday in Italy, her latest 20-something toyboy looked more like her carer steering her around the cobbled streets.
The one-time Queen of Pop appeared to be storing golf balls in her cheeks, while her squinted eyes looked more like the effect of a severe allergic reaction.
That supple Slovenian sphynx now seems worlds away from the cat-eyed glamazon consort we know today. (Pictured: The 1987 photoshoot).
She appears to have wholesomely embraced an all-American glamor with her Jackie-O power suits and permanent big hair blow-dry. (Pictured: The 1987 photoshoot).
And then there’s Cindy Crawford, whose famed sultry eyes now appear startled, with her once-perfectly proportioned features now skewed by a seemingly squarer, more masculine jaw.
But the A-list changing face is especially problematic when it distracts from the day job.
Take Nicole Kidman, 57, struggling to emote in her latest show on Netflix, ‘The Perfect Couple’, a detective drama set around a posh wedding in Nantucket.
Conveniently playing another taut, high-maintenance, rich wife in the mold of her previous vehicles, ‘Big Little Lies’ and ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’, Kidman is proving that it’s not her acting skills that are being stretched at the moment.
Ageing is a privilege. I hope Kidman and co know that.
