The Melania Trump look-alike model in rapper T.I.'s raunchy video says she has gotten death threats for the X-rated striptease.
The video, posted to Twitter last Saturday, shows the rapper at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office while model Melanie Marden — dressed to look like the first lady in a "I really don't care, do U?" jacket — gets naked.
Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's spokeswoman, called for a boycott of the rapper, and declared the video "disrespectful and disgusting to portray her in this way simply because of politics."
But the Canadian-born model said there was no political statement intended — and she was surprised at the death threats that followed.
"Somebody was going to hit me with their car," she told the entertainment show "Inside Edition."
"Somebody was going to take a baseball bat to me. Somebody wished me to get raped and then killed."
"It was an opportunity for me to step right outside my comfort zone and play the first lady — yes, naked, which I've never done before," she told the program.
"The first lady's husband does a lot of bullying himself," Marden added. "So they've got some thick skin. If I was insulting her and degrading her, then it would be one thing, but I don't think I was."
According to "Inside Edition," Marden channels the first lady again in her own video response to the controversy.
"Yes, I was naked, but I have been naked before," Marden says in a thick accent, a reference to Melania Trump's magazine shoot from decades ago.
"There is no need for death threats," she adds. "Life is short. Relax."
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