In her memoir, Melania reflects on her Slovenian childhood, the pivotal moments that led her to the world of high fashion in Europe and New York, and the serendipitous meeting with Donald Trump, a chance encounter that forever changed the course of her life. Melania opens up about their courtship, life in the spotlight, and experiencing the joy of motherhood. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from her time in the White House, shedding light on her advocacy work and the causes close to her heart.
The book is bad ... Melania’s tendency to skate over useful information in favor of gassing up her husband ... In at least one place, she has ripped language from previous interviews and statements without attribution ... Readers hoping for an intimate glimpse of the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Trump, following the earliest moments of their relationship, will be disappointed.
Slim ... A brazen whitewash of a presidency and a marriage of some tumult ... Less a confessional than a C. V., most notable for what it leaves out than what it includes.
The writing is riddled with generalities and clichés, at a level I haven’t seen since teaching college-freshman comp in the early twenty-tens ... In matters of political import, Melania gives us not much ... While I find her words on abortion commendable, it might be the only surprising contribution that Melania makes, and the fact that the passage was advertised in advance reads to me as a promotional smoke screen, to distract from the book’s more general emptiness.
