*The Canadian model who plays Melania Trump in T.I.’s controversial new music video says she’s receiving death threats, according to Fox News, but Melanie Marden doesn’t believe she insulted and degraded the first lady by stripping for the rapper in the (mock) Oval Office.
The video, which the rapper posted to Twitter on Saturday, depicts him as president while Marden, who is dressed to look like the Melania (in that infamous green “I really don’t care, do U?” jacket) starts to strip.
The model says one person told her she should be raped and killed for portraying the first lady as a stripper.
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Model Melanie Marden says one person told her she should be raped and killed for portraying the first lady as a stripper. https://t.co/mYnfYppbjL
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) October 18, 2018
She shared a message on Instagram explaining that her appearance in the clip was a “creative choice.”
“I was hired (as an actress) not a stripper to portray Melania Trump,” she wrote. “It was a creative choice for me, and also an opportunity to empower women. I stand firmly in my decision to share all of myself in this role.”
Marden went on to say she “felt good about being a strong enough woman to portray a nude First Lady,” and noted that she wanted to be “brave and fearless” in her first role that required full nudity.
She addressed the lunatics who threatened her in the comments section, saying: “I send love to all the people who called me names and made accusations or delivered hurtful insults. These are clearly deep wounds inside of you that have nothin to do with me. For that I am sad and wish you much healing.”
Meanwhile, Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman, has called for a boycott of T.I., saying it’s “disrespectful and disgusting to portray her in this way simply because of politics.”
Marden says the hate she’s receiving has surprised her.
“Somebody was going to hit me with their car,” she told “Inside Edition.”
“Somebody was going to take a baseball bat to me. Somebody wished me to get raped and then killed.”
In a statement to Fox News, Grisham wrote: “Like it or not, she is the First Lady and this is the White House. It’s disrespectful and disgusting to portray her this way simply because of politics. These kinds of vulgar attacks only further the divisiveness and bias in our country — it needs to stop.”
And SandraRose.com reports:
A few of VH1’s advertisers quietly pulled their ad spots from T.I.’s new reality show, T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle, that is set to debut next week. One advertiser, specifically cited a full length music video featuring T.I. and Marden (as the First Lady) engaging in a graphic love scene as the reason for pulling their ad spots.
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