Melania Trump was a 'giant nerd' as a teenager who 'hardly had friends over' and was fondly described as a 'wet blanket'
A new biography, which documented first lady Melania Trump's childhood, described her as “a nice and simple girl who immersed herself in the fashion design course” at a very competitive secondary school in Slovenia.
In ‘Free Melania: An unauthorised biography’, author Kate Bennett revealed that a teenage FLOTUS focused on her studies from a very early age because she wanted to secure a place at the technical school Srednja šola za oblikovanje in fotografijo (High School of Design and Photography) in Ljubljana. After successfully doing so, at the age of 16, she started traveling an hour by train to her school from her home in Sevnica, Slovenia, Express reported.
It also means that the woman who has presently become used to facing the cameras and attending public events and entertaining important world leaders at state dinners hardly had time to socialize in her days of adolescence. If she was not nose-deep in fashion designing books, she was rushing every day at the end of her school to catch the train and make the difficult and long commute back home.
“It was an arduous commute for a teenager, but especially one trying to acclimate to her peers. While it isolated her socially, it also highlighted Melania’s early sense of responsibility. Throughout the various stages of her life, people who know her almost always fondly described her as sort of a wet blanket,” Bennett said.
Although one could probably not tell from her model-like physical features, the mother-of-one was a "giant nerd," Bennet said. Quite opposite to a wild child, Melania believed in never breaking rules and hence, never broke her seemingly uneventful routine to grab a coffee or drink with any of her friends.
She was very close to her older sister, Ines, who also enrolled in a school in Ljubljana, following in her sister's footsteps. The pair of Knavs sisters were described as “hyper-responsible”, even without parental supervision. They “did not throw wild parties” and "hardly even had friends over," the author claimed.
Bennet added: “The freedom to nothing but be together was for the Knavs girls, was quite literally heaven. Theirs was a strong bond based on loyalty.”