Didn’t say it was your fault ...? You’re really hung up on “of any kind,” and I admitted that was carelessly stated, but c’mon, man. I meant she wasn’t a fashion model of any kind. I can see why some people were confused, but where I come from, “model” means fashion model, and when Trump brags about his wife being a…

It’s not that I don’t want to answer you, I’m just getting too frustrated here and need to go back to talking to fashion-oriented people, where my conversations go like this

forget it, i am so over this

So I didn’t define my terms precisely. While you make shruggie emoticons about my rushed comments, I’ll just sit here waiting for anyone to cough up pictures of Melania Knauss professionally modeling clothes in any capacity.

Sorry if I am a little loose with “model,” but that’s because generally people do not conflate fashion models and nude models. The women represented by Elite are not the women one sees in Penthouse. When Trump is bragging about his wife Melania being a formerly wildly successful model, he isn’t talking about the…

I’m that commenter :) and I’m talking about if Melania were any kind of fashion model, not even a household name. Even a third-tier model who gets a beauty editorial in Glamour once a year. Funny how models have their photos taken for a living, yet the only photos of Melania are test shots when she was a teenager and…

Where are those pictures? Other than the nude ones from the NYPost last week? Can anyone produce even one picture of Melania Knauss from a fashion magazine or catalog, wearing clothes?

next time try not being an asshole

I’m specifically talking about fashion modeling. Trump says Melania was a “supermodel,” a term reserved for women in the fashion industry. Posing for an obscure men’s magazine — and once, at that, apparently — does not make one a model, if we are defining the term as Trump has. She was not a supermodel, she was not a…

You seem to care about the status of her green card and the legitimacy of her college education. So it’s curious that a wholesale lie about her premarriage profession is uninteresting to you, but I guess now that you’ve been rude to me you feel you can’t back down.

Well, that’s up to you. But the reason why this issue bothers me so much is because every newspaper of record repeats this myth as if it is fact. There is virtually no evidence that Melania was a working model of any kind pre-Trump. None.

You know, it’s very rude to dismiss someone who hasn’t trolled you, who hasn’t used abusive language or gaslighted you, etc. I simply challenged the lie about Melania being a model. It’s not even like I challenged you; this isn’t about you.

Funnily enough, I actually chose this username months ago on another article about Melania! I was calling Donald trump a lying liar who lies because he variously claims that Melania was a supermodel (bitch please) and a very successful 90-era model (LOL), and yeah, I’m saying she wasn’t a model at all.

Yeah, I mean, look at Ford, or DNA, or Elite — the sites are robust with full portfolios of all their main models and new faces. ID Models may as well have a blinking Geocities-era banner that says SKETCHBALL!!

She wasn’t a model.

yup, Paolo Zampolli, ID Models. Does this seem like a real/legitimate modeling agency to anyone?

what modeling agency

she probably had no good options

pity and sympathy are not the same thing

It’s just more evidence that THIS HEFFA WAS NEVER A MODEL