Melania Trump reveals how she became very comfortable with nude modeling with trips to risque beaches READ MORE: Melania Trump explains her father's ties to communism By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent For Dailymail.Com In Washington, D.C.

Published: 19:47 BST, 8 October 2024 | Updated: 19:57 BST, 8 October 2024 e-mail 25 View comments Former first lady Melania Trump said she was completely comfortable with posing nude during her modeling days. In her memoir Melania , which was released Tuesday, she recounts how her nude photos were put on the cover of The New York Post during the closing weeks of the 2016 presidential election . The tabloid used the 'disgusting heaadline,' as Melania described it, 'Menage à Trump.

' 'My upbringing in Europe had fostered a different perspective on nudity, a more open and accepting attitude,' she wrote. 'We were accustomed to beaches where nudity was commonplace, a natural and uncontroversial aspect of life.' She noted how 'attitudes toward the female body in the United States were starkly different.

' Melania Trump at a Vogue event in 2000. She wrote in her memoir Melania about her nude photographs shot for the French magazine Max in 1996 used against her husband politically The controversial photos were from a 1996 photoshoot from a now defunct French fashion magazine called Max. 'The photos had never been circulated in the United States,' she recalled.

'The magazine that had originally published them had ceased to exist long befo.