Melania Trump in private is excellent company, according to Brigitte Macron but unlike the French first lady, her US counterpart cannot so much as poke her nose outdoors.
Speaking to Le Monde at the end of the French presidential couple’s three day state visit to Washington, Brigitte said the 48-year-old former model from Slovenia was actually really fun. We have the same sense of humour. We laugh a lot together.
But Melania cannot do anything, the French first lady said. She can’t even open a window at the White House. She can’t go outside. She’s much more constrained than I am. I go out every day in Paris.
The French first lady said she, too, was aware that she had to be careful what I say. I have the impression that every word is a word too many, I’m constantly holding myself back. That’s the hardest part: there’s never really any time off, never a moment when you can be completely calm.
Macron said she tries to lead a normal life, continuing to see her son and two daughters with her first husband, banker André-Louis Auzière, and grandchildren. I haven’t changed in my head, she said. I’m still the wife of Emmanuel Macron, not of the president. I don’t feel like a first lady.