Don't mean this to be catty, but Melania evidently has a disfiguring condition

[Grasswire2]

I happened to look at this photo from the inauguration.

She apparently suffers from something called kyphosis, a curved, rounded back that will eventually prevent her from standing up straight. She will need a cane or a walker. It's why elderly women have what used to be called hunchback. They can't stand up.

Check it out. I am not mocking her or meaning to demean anyone with this looming disability. I'm sure it's quite distressing.



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[SunSeeker]

1. Her real problem is the hump she married. nt

[DetlefK]

2. There is a much more innocent explanation: She's taller than him.

She's taller than him, but he doesn't like it when she's taller than him because he's a weak little man who likes to pretend that he's a big man.

So, in order to not upstage him and to be smaller than him, she stands with a hunched back.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Trump is definitely not 6'3"

Here are two pictures of Lil Donny with other men also listed at 6'3" - California Governor Gavin Newsom and retired baseball legend Alex Rodriguez. Based on the pics below, I'm guessing he's 6'0" at best.

[Calista241]

7. My father used to be 5'9" in his prime, as measured by the USMC.

Today, in his late 70's, he's more like 5'6". Trump may have a similar issue since he's only a few years younger.

[NewJeffCT]

8. Anecdotal evidence on my part

but, most guys fudge their height. (women do as well, but not nearly as often - my ex used to claim to be 5'1", but was really probably closer to 4'11" - but, calling herself that short made her feel unusual)

[ooky]

13. I'm guessing Trump just lied about it.

Like he lies about everything else.

[torius]

3. is it from high heels?

Those cause a lot of back problems.

[Ilsa]

5. High heels definitely make it worse and cause problems, also

with the feet. Ivanka will likely eventually have these issues as she wears those ridiculous heels with pinched toes.

[torius]

11. They'll just get new feet and any parts and organs they need

extracted from people they keep in cages for this purpose.

[pansypoo53219]

4. bad posture. she's a slumper. she is a cashew.

could also be the dress.

[Grasswire2]

9. if you look at where her arm is in relation to the extreme curve of the spine and neck...

what may have started as slumping has turned into disfiguring permanence.

Sort of surprising, since she was a model and would have to exhibit good posture.

The head thrust forward is also a diagnostic tell.

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[Ilsa]

12. I tend to agree with you.

It'll take time, but it will show up eventually.

I don't think she was a real model, was she? Did she do training to be a model? I'm guessing she had a few real gigs after the nudies she did. And all of it was before the dramatic change in appearance with surgery, wasn't it?

[cwydro]

10. Why do we care about any condition she has?

Unless we’re being “catty” as you call it.

[Grasswire2]

14. Plenty of people care about learning how to avoid disfiguring, progressive conditions.

See how dramatic this condition is, in an early stage, in someone who is held up as an example of beauty but in whom apparently no treatment or therapy has been undertaken to correct or ameliorate.

This condition renders elderly folk so bent and sometimes twisted that even walking may be a problem. It is commonly called "hunchback." Google the images. It gets tragic.

Her picture is a cautionary tale. If it were Michelle Obama, I would post it too, with the same caution. I know a woman in real life, barely sixty years old, who is showing the same symptom that I see in Melania. This woman is a mountain climber, an avid hiker and sportswoman. At this point just the rounded back, the head thrust forward, the poor posture. But we know what's ahead.