First Lady Melania Trump’s longtime makeup artist says her career has taken a hit because of her continued work with the Trump family.
Nicole Bryl appeared this week on the Return on Identity podcast with host Ahmad Ashrafi, where she spoke about her professional relationship with both Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump.
Bryl said she has worked with the Trump family for decades, but that her association with the first lady caused others in the beauty industry to stop working with her.
“Because I was working with Melania, who’s, you know, Donald’s wife, all of a sudden, beauty didn’t become beauty anymore, it became political. And you know, I was so naive at the time. I didn’t understand why all the doors shut. People totally canceled me,” she said.
According to Bryl, she was urged by people in the industry to drop the Trumps as clients or, at minimum, scrub any mention of them from her social media accounts, something she refused to do. She also said she was encouraged to publicly distance herself from or denounce the Trumps for political reasons.
“They wouldn’t talk to me. They wouldn’t take my calls. They stopped sending me products,” she said. “Lipstick didn’t become lipstick anymore. Products were not just products anymore. It became something more. And you know, when you’re going through something for the first time, you’re very naive about all of it.”
Bryl said the professional fallout came with real financial pressure, including the risk of going “broke,” but she chose to stand by her clients because she does not respond well to what she described as bullying.
“No one’s going to bully me,” she said. “And so, if that means that, you know, I’m gonna have a lot of people not like me, I’m fine with that because I love my client, and I’m not leaving her side. She’s one of the most amazing people I’ve ever known or worked with, and she’s been nothing but kind and she herself has been bullied, and I’m not walking away from that.”
Watch above via Return on Identity.
who would’ve guessed that being in the employ of monsters would alienate people