People are staring at two photos of Melania Trump — and asking the same thing.
What happened to her face?
An old modeling photo of the First Lady is being passed around online. Next to a more recent picture, it doesn’t even look like the same woman. The jawline, the eyes, the cheeks — everything looks different.
One Instagram user posted the two photos together and wrote:
“Yes, Doctor… Please put my cheekbones right next to my ears, remove 75% of my chin, give me a nice, big, healthy set of jugs… ooh, and make my eyes look like I’m permanently trying to bend spoons with my mind.”
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The comments came in fast.
“She was so much prettier before. Always looks angry eyed so much pulling of skin,” one person wrote.
“Why does it look like Melania is always squinting?” another said.
One more added, “Doesn’t look like the same person. Did she have her eyes made smaller?”
And someone else said, “Why do people do this to their faces? I just don’t understand. She had such a lovely face.”
Even the doctors are weighing in.
Dr. Dennis Schimpf says he sees signs of a facelift. He pointed to a scar in front of her ear — the kind made during surgery. He also mentioned tight skin around her neck and changes in her ears.
Another surgeon, Dr. Sean McNally, saw something similar. He noticed a “pixie shape” on her earlobe and a line from the ear to the lobe. Both are known signs of a facelift.
But that’s not all.
Dr. Schimpf thinks Melania had an eyelid lift too. He said her eyes used to be rounder and almond-shaped. Now they look more pulled and slanted — which can happen after canthoplasty and a brow lift.
People have asked these same questions before.
In 2018, the White House said Melania had kidney cyst surgery. That kind of surgery usually takes one day in the hospital. But she stayed five. Then she vanished from the public for almost a month.
Some believed she was recovering from facial surgery, not kidney work.
Dr. Schimpf said facelift recovery can take up to six weeks. Swelling drops after about a week. Bruising fades after three.
Still, Melania denies everything.
She told GQ, “I didn’t do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I’m against Botox, I’m against injections; I think it’s damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It’s all me.”
Donald Trump also tried to shut it down.
He tweeted,
“The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!”
Featured image via Instagram screengrab
