Melania Trump once insisted she would 'never do anything' to her face. More than a decade on, her porcelain-smooth, almost frozen expressions have become their own internet subplot; a running joke to some, a minor mystery to others, and, for at least one plastic surgeon, a case study in what money and meticulous work can do.
Scroll through photos of the former first lady from her days as a Slovenian model in the 1990s to her years in the White House, and the transformation is hard to miss. The jawline has sharpened. The nose seems slimmer, more sculpted. The eyes tilt upwards in a way they simply didn't before. Aging can explain some changes. It cannot, as one expert bluntly puts it, 'only be achieved' by time and skincare.
