Melania Trump (/məˈlɑːniə/;
born Melanija Knavs; [mɛˈlaːnija ˈknaːu̯s],
Germanized to Melania Knauss; born April 26, 1970) is the current First Lady of the United States and wife of the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump.
Germanized to Melania Knauss; born April 26, 1970) is the current First Lady of the United States and wife of the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump.
She was born in Novo Mesto,
and grew up in Sevnica, in the Lower Sava
Valley, SR Slovenia. She worked as a fashion
model for agencies in Milan and Paris, later moving to New York City in 1996. Her
modeling career was associated with Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management.
In 2001, she became a permanent resident of the United
States. She married Donald Trump in 2005 and obtained U.S.
citizenship in 2006. She
is the first naturalized U.S. citizen to become
First Lady of the United States.
Early
Life
Melanija Knavs was born
in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia),
on April 26, 1970. Her father, Viktor Knavs, was from the nearby town
of Radeče, and managed car and motorcycle
dealerships for a state-owned vehicle manufacturer. Her mother Amalija
(née Ulčnik) came from the village of Raka and worked as a patternmaker at the children's clothing
manufacturer Jutranjka in Sevnica. As a child,
Melania participated in fashion shows featuring children's clothing, along with
other children of workers at the factory. She has an older sister, Ines,
and an older half-brother whom she reportedly has never met, from her father's
previous relationship.
Knavs grew up in a modest apartment in a housing block in Sevnica, in the Lower Sava Valley. Her father was in
the League of
Communists of Slovenia, which espoused a policy of state atheism. As was common, however, he
had his daughters baptisedsecretly.
When she was a teenager, Knavs moved with her family to a
two-story house in Sevnica. Then, as a high-school student, she lived in a
high-rise apartment in Ljubljana. She attended
the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana, and studied
architecture and design at the University of
Ljubljana for one year before dropping out.
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