So Maybe Melania Doesn't Have An Architecture Degree, After All?

From ELLE DECOR

Update 7/28/2016: Following allegations questioning the accuracy of her design and architecture degree, Melania Trump's website has been taken down, BuzzFeed News reports.

The potential First Lady took some heat for parroting Michelle Obama's 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 in her address at the Republican National Convention last week. She also came under fire for her website biography, which claimed she "obtained a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia," when in fact, Mrs. Trump dropped out of school after her first year to pursue a modeling career.

Mrs. Trump's website now redirects to Trump.com, the website of The Trump Organization.

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Previously 7/21/2016: Melania Trump's resume is impressive. She's been featured on the cover of high fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, launched a jewelry collection with QVC, and has lent her talents to several philanthropic causes.

She is not, however, an architect.

As Curbed so smartly points out, a biography on the potential First Lady's website states that she "obtained a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia." (For what it's worth, the biography also highlights that she once starred in a commercial with "one of America's top icons, the Aflac duck!")

And yet, CBS News checked records from the university, and have confirmed that she did not graduate with a degree. In fact, Melania dropped out after her first year of college to pursue a modeling career in Milan, according to GQ. YIKES.

Should Donald Trump be elected to office, Melania wouldn't be the first First Lady with a passion for architecture. According to Curbed, First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, the wife of Herbert Hoover, designed several buildings, ranging from cottages on campus at her alma mater, Stanford University, to a Girl Scout troop headquarters in Palo Alto. Construction on those projects were carried out by other architects. She later designed Camp Rapidan, the Hoovers' weekend getaway in Madison County, Virginia.

Come back to us when you've at least made a diorama, Melania.

h/t: Curbed

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