Melania Trump is back in the limelight _ sort of.
The first lady made her first public appearance in nearly a month on Monday, and while the event was closed to the media, a reporter for a pro-Trump outlet was in attendance.
"Good to see her doing well," Jena Greene, a reporter for the right-wing Daily Caller, tweeted along with a video of President Donald Trump and the first lady making their way to a podium at a White House event honoring families of those killed in military service.
Greene followed up with a couple of tweets quoting the president.
"Melania had a little problem a couple weeks ago but she wouldn't miss this for anything," Trump said, according to Greene.
Greene said Trump then made a joke about "speculation" that he and the first lady are about to get a divorce, saying that's not happening. "Isn't that right, honey?" the president quipped to laughs from the Gold Star families in attendance, according to Greene.
Multiple White House spokespeople did not return requests for comment from the New York Daily News on why Greene was in the room, even though she identifies as a "reporter" on Twitter. Greene did not respond to direct messages.
The Monday evening event marks the first time Melania Trump has been seen in public since May 10, when she and her husband traveled to a military base in Maryland to welcome home three Americans who had been released from captivity in North Korea.
Four days later, the White House announced the 48-year-old first lady had been hospitalized for a benign kidney condition.
Media interest in the first lady's absence was spurred by remarks from her top spokeswoman ahead of Monday evening's Gold Star event.
"Mrs. Trump has always been a strong and independent woman who puts her family, and certainly her health above all else, and that won't change over a rabid press corps," spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. "She's confident in what she is doing and in her role, and knows the rest is just speculation and nonsense."
The first lady's time out of the spotlight coincided with a barrage of media reports about her husband paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her promising to not go public with claims they had sex in 2006.
