To the public, Melania Trump has proven to be just as fascinating as her famous husband. It helps that, like Donald, Melania is perfectly capable of surprising us when we least expect her to. This includes everything from the time she refused to move into the White House to the recently-released memoir that clarified she is completely pro-choice. These kinds of surprises help underscore that very few people know the real Melania rather than the one who has been fabricated by an endless array of negative headlines.
Unfortunately for Melania, so few people knowing her deal means has been the target of some crazy rumors. Sometimes, it seemed like each rumor was weirder than the one before because nobody knew what to make of this fascinating FLOTUS! And now that her husband won the 2024 election, it’s a sure bet that we’re going to get more unhinged Melania rumors than ever before.
Before that happens, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at the craziest speculation of years past. Keep reading to discover the wildest rumors about Melania Trump (so far, that is)!
Persistent plastic surgery rumors
Considering that she was a model before she met and married Donald Trump, it’s an open secret that Melania Trump has spent her entire life looking beautiful for others. Some, however, think she’s had a little help staying beautiful in later years. For example, in 2024, the Daily Mail assembled a team of plastic surgeons to tell the world if Melania had any work done. Collectively, the group concluded that the FLOTUS has likely had fillers, jaw surgery, and every in between.
The most devastating takedown, though, came from plastic surgeon Dr. Gary Linkov. His YouTube video (watch it below) is filled with a breakdown of how Melania’s appearance has changed over the years. He thinks she has had a nose job and a facelift and speculated that she might have had cheek implants. As for her part, Melania has denied ever having had plastic surgery and even claims to have never used botox.
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The employee affair rumor
Since he won the 2016 presidential election, the public has seen plenty of Donald Trump and Melania Trump in various public appearances. The two don’t always seem overly physically affectionate, and this has led to persistent rumors that they are in a marriage of convenience. Such speculation gave life to another rumor: namely, that Melania had an affair with a Trump Tower employee!
The employee in question is Henry “Hank” Siemers, who worked as the vice president of global protection services for Tiffany & Co, located in Trump Tower. As Perez Hilton reports, author Monica Byrne began these rumors on Twitter, alleging that the affair had lasted for several years and that Donald Trump knew about it. While he didn’t explicitly name Siemers, a former Celebrity Apprentice employee seemingly corroborated the affair rumor in a 2019 tweet while discussing her infrequent appearances on the show: “Melania didn’t live with him in Trump Tower either, she lived with her boyfriend,” he wrote on Twitter. “We had to book the transport on ‘Apprentice’ finales and her pick-up was NOT on 5th Ave.”
Melania’s shifting prenup with Donald Trump?
Many have viewed Melania’s marriage to Donald Trump as something of a gamble…certainly, the business mogul turned president would be quite the catch on paper. Who wouldn’t want to marry someone so rich and famous? However, Trump has been married and divorced two times before, and both his personal and political life have been plagued by persistent cheating rumors.
It’s possible, though, that Melania protected herself the old-fashioned way: with a good prenup. In Mary Jordan’s 2020 book The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, she wrote that Melania actually used her husband’s 2016 election victory to renegotiate her prenup, but not necessarily on her own behalf. As The Washington Post reports, Jordan wrote that Melania “wanted proof in writing that when it came to financial opportunities and inheritance, Barron would be treated as more of an equal to Trump’s oldest three children.”
And in 2023, various sources told Radar that she threatened to renegotiate the prenup again or even outright divorce his husband after he was legally ordered to pay $5 million to E. Jean Carroll, a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her. Those sources claim he accommodated her by increasing both Barron’s inheritance and Melania’s allowance so she would support him during the 2024 election.
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The fake Melania conspiracy
We saved the best (or at least, our favorite) rumor for last: Fake Melania. That’s the name (and hashtag) given to a conspiracy theory with a simple premise: that Melania has an uncanny body double. This weird rumor started in 2017 when images of Melania walking with a very similar-looking Secret Service agent caused people to speculate that she had an armed and trained stand-in.
After that, pretty much any image of Melania that looked a little off sent the conspiracy theorists into overdrive. The truth is much more mundane: Melania is, simply put, one of the most highly photographed women in the entire world. Inevitably, some photos will look worse than others or look “off” by comparison. But if she really does have an army of stand-ins that look almost exactly like her, we just want to ask Melania one question: where can we order some stand-ins of ourselves to send to work next week?