Nude photos of Melania Trump hit the internet

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Today's cover: Melania Trump like you've never seen her before http://nyp.st/2aI67oj 

 

Melania Trump in the January 1996 issue of Max Magazine.
Decades before she was sporting designer dresses on the stage of the Republican National Convention as Mrs. Trump, Melania Knauss posed nude in a photo spread for a now-defunct French men’s magazine, The Post has learned.
The leggy, Slovenian-born model — then 25 years old and known by her professional moniker Melania K. — did the steamy photo session in Manhattan in 1995, according to Ale de Basseville, the French photographer who shot the sexy snaps.
The images, some rarely seen and others never published, were obtained exclusively by The Post.
The bombshell photos show Melania wearing nothing but high heels and pouting for the camera, in a series of images shot from the front, the back and the side.
“Melania was super-great and a fantastic personality and she was very kind with me,” de Basseville told The Post, adding the former model never once felt uncomfortable posing for the nude pictures.
Melania’s sexy photo spread appeared in the January 1996 issue of Max, a French men’s magazine that went out of business in 2006.

So this is, um, different: The New York Post, which endorsed Donald Trump in the New York primary, published naked photos of Melania Trump on Sunday.
The pictures are from a photoshoot in 1995 for a French magazine, according the Post. It’s unclear how the Post even obtained them.
Trump has not yet responded since the paper hit the newsstands. He told the Post:

“Melania was one of the most successful models and she did many photo shoots, including for covers and major magazines. This was a picture taken for a European magazine prior to my knowing Melania. In Europe, pictures like this are very fashionable and common.”

Trump’s communications director, Jason Miller, appeared on CNN’s reliable sources on Sunday and called the photos “a celebration of the human body.”
“We have nothing to be embarrassed about in these photos,” Miller said. “She’s a beautiful woman.”
But why did the Post publish them at all? While the paper certainly has a history of printing photos targeting at hurting candidates (see: their cover in 2008 with the photo from President Obama’s trip to Kenya) or nude photos (see: the shots of Ashley Dupre that ran in 2008), it seems odd that the solidly anti-Clinton paper would be running anti-Trump photos.

Or in the middle of a campaign season rifle with sexism, is this to remind us that Trump has a beautiful former model as a wife? Is to promote the (BS) MRA belief that a woman should stay attractive for her husband? Or that a wife’s attractiveness somehow reflects on her husband’s manliness (also BS)?
Or are they supposed to distract us, the voters and the media? As Trump battles questions about his tax returns and his response to Khizr Khan's moving DNC speech, let’s face it: Can any of us say, honestly, that we will ignore nude photos of a famous person?
As Trump himself tweeted after Melania’s speech snafu:
Or maybe it’s none of the above. The Post headline proclaims: “Melania Trump, like you’ve never seen her before.” Maybe the Post had the photos and wanted to run them to sell newspapers, which is tough enough in this day and age.
It’s been a rough few weeks for Melania Trump: She was caught plagiaizing part of her speech at Republican National Convention, there have been questions about whether she really graduated college, she still lags far behind Michelle Obama in Facebook popularity and then this week, her website was scrubbed from the Internet.
Source:NewYorkPost