If you marry for money then you will end up earning every penny of it

Being a trophy wife is not real power. Real power is never dependent on someone else’s mood and/or generosity, says Louise O’Neill.

If you marry for money then you will end up earning every penny of it

Melania Trump. It’s hard to know whether we should feel sympathy for her or castigate her as a willing participant in her husband’s increasingly deranged reign of terror.

Personally, I am veering towards sympathy because in public appearances she always seems to look like someone who is frantically searching for the nearest emergency exit.

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