Melania Trump must balance between personal life and public awareness. After three years, she remained the same, when warm, with a cold face.

Although married to a passionate husband, Melania has long faced the preconception that she is aloof, detached from the public, even "stuck" in the White House. The online community believes this so much that the hashtag #FreeMelania (Free for Melania) was once shared at breakneck speed.

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First lady Melania Trump Photo: Reuters

How Melania lives behind the White House door is always a question of public interest because it is so secretive. But the forthcoming book entitled "Free, Melania, The Unauthorized Biography" by Kate Bennett will somewhat help reveal new angles about the First Lady of the United States.

Melania has her own room at the White House. The presidential residence is not small, occupying about 2,800 square meters of a total of 5,100 square meters of the White House. However, life here is not completely like at home.

The family of the US president cannot open the window without the Secret Service's consent. They also cannot arbitrarily walk around the lawn when security is not guaranteed. But one thing Melania Trump has is the private space in the White House. According to sources, President Trump and his wife do not always share a room. In fact, First Lady Melania also likes to stay in her own room on a separate floor.

The book says that President Trump is on the second floor and First Lady Melania's room is on the third floor. The room previously belonged to Marian Robinson, the mother of first lady Michelle Obama. Melania also has a "beauty salon," where she has her hair and makeup, and a private gym with Pilates machines.

Besides, Melania is said to be more influential with her husband than previously thought by the public.

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President Trump and his wife are on the airport runway after returning from an G7 summit in France in August Photo: Reuters

Last year, Mira Ricardel, a deputy of the White House national security adviser at the time, John Bolton, disturbed Melania's staff during her visit to Africa. Therefore, Melania wanted Ricardel to be fired. When President Trump hesitated to act, Melania simply made an unprecedented statement of employment.

"The view of the First Lady's Office is that Ricardel no longer deserves the honor of serving in the White House," the statement said.

A day later, Ricardel was fired. Melania Trump showed that she was completely capable of subverting the White House West Coast personnel. According to a well-informed source, Melania regularly participates in her husband's decisions, both in politics and in how he manages the staff. She often discusses it with her husband at least once a day.

In the East Wing, she obviously had influence. Melania was the decision maker to dismiss White House chief executive Angella Reid, who was hired by former first lady Michelle Obama.

According to friends and former White House sources, the relationship between Melania and Ivanka, President Trump's daughter with his first wife, was not as intimate as before.

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Melania wore a shirt with a controversial message when visiting migrant children separated from their parents at a detention facility in Texas in June 2018 Photo: Reuters

Although a White House spokeswoman said the two were "okay" and "supporting each other", behind the scenes, the US President's daughter occasionally engaged in activities that were the responsibility of the First Lady. causes many dramatic situations.

From the way they handle social media to the way a person walks into the spotlight when there's no one else around, they all have cracks in the relationship between two close and influential women. most with President Trump.

Sources revealed that Ivanka's international trips often made Melania feel like she was "invading" her. And Melania may have used the same clothes she wore to send the warning message.

Author Bennett speculates the controversial blue jacket with the words "I really don't care? And you?" which the First Lady wore during a visit to migrant children in detention facilities in June last year was in fact a message for Ivanka.

"I believe the coat is a sarcasm aimed at Ivanka as well as her near-constant efforts to relate herself to all government activities," Bennett wrote. However, the White House insists the message on the shirt is aimed at the media. Melania herself explained that the words on the coat were what she wanted to say to "the leftist media and those who always criticized me."