Melania Trump’s nude modelling pictures surface

STEAMY photos of potential first lady Melania Trump have emerged, as Donald ramps up his race for president. WARNING: Nudity.

WARNING: Nudity.

DONALD Trump thinks his wife will be a model first lady — and here’s the proof.

Decades before she was sporting designer dresses on the stage of the Republican National Convention as Mrs Trump, Melania Knauss posed nude in a photo spread for a now-defunct French men’s magazine, The New York Post has learned.

The Slovenian-born model — then aged 25 and known by her professional moniker Melania K — did the steamy photo session in Manhattan in 1995, according to Alé de Basse­ville, the French photographer who shot the sexy snaps.

Today's cover: Melania Trump like you've never seen her before https://t.co/wkoDGWTF9g pic.twitter.com/V375rBTUEw

— New York Post (@nypost) July 31, 2016

The images, some rarely seen and others never published, were obtained exclusively by The New York Post.

The bombshell photos show Melania wearing nothing but high heels and pouting for the camera, in a series of images shot from the front, the back and the side.

“Melania was super-great and a fantastic personality and she was very kind with me,” de Basseville said, adding the former model never once felt uncomfortable posing for the nude pictures.

Melania’s sexy photo spread appeared in the January 1996 issue of Max, a French men’s magazine that went out of business in 2006.

“I was quite surprised when I saw the pictures because it was ... a racier shoot than I expected,” said a fashion-industry insider who was present for one of the photo sessions.

“But Melania seemed very comfortable with the whole thing, and she was very professional.”

The photog who shot nude pictures of Melania Trump calls himself the “Prince of Normandy” https://t.co/UgLm7S1r6i pic.twitter.com/ydc3QpjA4D

— New York Post (@nypost) July 31, 2016

For de Basseville, the inspiration for the pictures was the Renaissance and a celebration of the female body.

“I think it is important to show the beauty and the freedom of the woman, and I am very proud of these pictures because they celebrate Melania’s beauty,” he said.

At the time of the shoot, Melania had just recently arrived in New York City from modelling stints in Paris and Milan, Italy.

In Gotham she was booked for mostly commercial work and was later featured in an ad for Camel cigarettes, the source said.

Donald Trump and his wife Melania at day one of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Picture: AP Photo/J Scott Applewhite

When asked about the photos, Trump told The New York Post: “Melania was one of the most successful models and she did many photo shoots, including for covers and major magazines. This was a picture taken for a European magazine prior to my knowing Melania. In Europe, pictures like this are very fashionable and common.”

In 1998, Melania was introduced to Trump during a New York Fashion Week party at the Kit Kat club hosted by Paolo Zampolli, who was then representing Melania through his company ID Model Management.

The two wed in 2005 in a ceremony at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Melbourne graffiti artist Lushsux created this Melania Trump mural in West Footscray. Picture: Scott Barbour / Getty Images

This story originally appeared inThe New York Post.