Melania Trump’s former roommate says the first lady still has her Slovenian accent because she doesn’t get out enough.

Swedish model Victoria Silvstedt, Playboy’s Playmate of the Year in 1997, lived with Melania in Paris when they were both launching their modeling careers. But while Silvstedt liked partying, Melania Knauss shunned the spotlight.

“She never wanted the attention. She was always very quiet,” Silvstedt told a source at the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. “Melania still has her accent because she doesn’t socialize enough to get rid of it.”

The two were driven. “When we used to eat fancy meals, we would run up and down the stairs of our building to work it off,” said Silvstedt, who last saw Melania at Harry Cipriani over a year ago.

Silvstedt called Melania “the perfect roommate,” saying she was “clean, neat domestic. I don’t think I could have asked for a better roommate, actually.”

Their apartment was a sixth-floor walk-up in the heart of Paris, not far from Notre Dame Cathedral.

She says for fun they used to cook at home and make simple dishes like tuna salad, they didn’t go to fancy restaurants nor did fancy cooking.

She says they stayed in shape by running up and down the stairs to their building.

“We had staircases — no elevators — so we had to run up and down the stairs quite a lot,” she said. “As a model, you gotta to keep active.”

Silvstedt, who was born in Sweden, revealed that Melania idolized screen legend Sophia Loren.

“I remember back then, she was telling me how, ‘One day I would like to be like Sophia Loren,'” Silvstedt said. “Obviously she was her style icon.”

The two models wound up moving to New York. Silvstedt was named Playboy’s “Playmate of the Year” in 1997 before becoming the face of Guess Jeans.

Silvstedt has been closely watching her old roommate’s first year as first lady and thinks Melania Trump is doing “a great job.” She added that some of her criticism has been unfair.

“Whatever goes [on] around her, she is calm,” she said. “She has class.”

Silvstedt says it is “kind of surreal” that she used to live with America’s first lady.

“She was my roommate — it’s cool,” she said. “She’s the first lady. That’s America. Anything is possible in America, right?”

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