Melania Knauss
Melania Trump was born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, on April 26, 1970. She worked as a fashion model through agencies in Milan and Paris and moved to New York City in 1996. She is the second first lady to have been born outside the country, the first one to be a naturalized citizen and the first whose native language is not English. In 2010, Melania launched her own line of jewelry, Melania, for sale on QVC.
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Melania Trump was born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, on April 26, 1970. She worked as a fashion model through agencies in Milan and Paris and moved to New York City in 1996. In March 2001 she became a permanent resident of the U.S. She married the businessman, real estate developer and television personality Donald Trump in January 2005, gave birth to their son Barron in March 2006, and obtained U. S. citizenship in July 2006. She is the second first lady to have been born outside the country, the first one to be a naturalized citizen and the first whose native language is not English. She has an older sister, Ines, who is an artist and her \”longtime confidant\”, and an older half-brother—whom she reportedly has never met—from her father’s previous relationship. In 2010, Melania launched her own line of jewelry, Melania, for sale on QVC. In 2016, she brought in between $15,000 and $50,000 in royalties from her high-end department stores. In 2017, she filed a financial filing in which she stated that she made between $5,000 to $10,000 a year in royalties. She also marketed a skin care line for high end department stores in Europe and the US. She posed nude for the January 2000 UK edition of GQ magazine, except for diamond-fitted photos, reclining on fur, aboard Trump’s custom-fitted Boeing Boeing 737. She was featured in a sexually explicit photo shoot for January 1996 issue of Max, a now-defunct French men’s magazine, with another female model.
In 2008, she appeared on the cover of the European edition of Vogue magazine, where she said: “I like to show off my body. I like to be provocative” She is married to real-estate developer Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. The couple have a son, Barron, and a daughter, Stormy, who was born on June 11, 2013. She had a daughter with Slovene model Branka Knauss, who went on to model for Victoria’s Secret and Glamour magazine. Her father, Viktor Knavs, was in the League of Communists of Slovenia, which espoused a policy of state atheism. As was common, however, he had his daughters secretly baptized as Catholic. When the Trumps met Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2017, Melania brought her rosary and asked the Pope to bless it. In 1992, she was named runner-up in the Jana Magazine \”Look of the Year\” contest, held in Ljubljana, which promised its top three contestants an international modeling contract. In 1995, she met Metropolitan Models co-owner Paolo Zampolli, a friend of her future husband Donald Trump. He arranged for her to share an apartment with photographer Matthew Atanian in Zeckendorf Towers in Union Square. In 1996, she moved to Manhattan, where he said he would like to represent her.
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