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Former first lady Melania Trump has lashed out at the editor-in-Chief of Vogue Anna Wintour for putting Jill Biden on the front cover of her magazine, yet failing to do the same for her while husband, Donald Trump, was in office.
In what is believed to be her first interview since leaving the White House, Melania Trump told Fox Nation that she believes media bias against her is the reason for the discrepancy.
Interviewer Pete Hegseth took a moment to outline the purported bias against her.
'We did a little research. You were the only first lady to go to the border. You did it twice,' Hegseth began. 'How did you put up with the constant criticism?'
Melania Trump has spoken out against Vogue editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour, after the former first lady never graced the cover of the magazine while at the White House
The former First Lady is seen walking to the garden with her husband former President Donald Trump in 2019
'Take Vogue, for example — five months into Joe Biden's presidency, Jill Biden's on the cover. [Vice President] Kamala Harris is on the cover before she's even sworn in. Hillary Clinton was on the cover when she was first lady. Michelle was on the cover three times. Yet with your business background and your fashion background and your beauty, never on the cover of Vogue. Why the double standard?', Hegseth inquired.
'They're biased and they have likes and dislikes, and it's so obvious. And I think American people and everyone sees it. It was their decision, and I have much more important things to do — and I did in the White House — than being on the cover of Vogue,' Melania said in response.
Before she became First Lady, Mrs. Trump donned a Christian Dior wedding dress on the February 2005 cover of Vogue following her wedding.
Mrs. Trump covered the February 2017 issue of Vanity Fair Mexico, though the story and photos were recycled from a profile featured in GQ in April 2016
Before Mrs. Trump became first lady, she donned a Christian Dior wedding dress on the February 2005 cover of Vogue following her wedding to Trump
Five years prior to that, she starred in a nude cover shoot for British GQ when she was still known by her maiden name, Melania Knauss.
More recently, she covered the February 2017 issue of Vanity Fair Mexico, though the story and photos were recycled from a profile featured in GQ in April 2016. Both publications share the same parent company as Vogue, Condé Nast.
Wintour never explicitly said she would not have Mrs. Trump on the cover again, but she had suggested that she wasn't interested in doing so.
The distinction of appearing on the front cover was afforded to her predecessor Michelle Obama on three occasions, first in February 2009, less than a month after President Obama's inauguration, then again in 2013, and finally in November 2016.
Just months after becoming First Lady, Jill Biden landed her first Vogue cover - an honor that was never given to her predecessor Melania Trump. It saw her posing at the White House in a $2,690 Oscar de la Renta gown
Melania Trump accused Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour of 'being biased'. 'They have likes and dislikes, and it's so obvious,' Trump said
The only other First Lady to appear on the cover before Michelle Obama was Hillary Clinton in 1998.
A shoot inside the magazine's pages has become something of a tradition for Presidents' wives that began with Lou Henry Hoover in 1929.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Jackie Kennedy, Lady
