Who is Melanie Trump?
Melania Trump's (potential) road to the White House didn't begin when the Slovenian beauty met real estate magnate and reality TV star, Donald Trump, in 1998. It actually began more than a decade earlier, in a chance encounter in the streets of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
Melania Knavs was just 17 years old in 1987, when photographer Stane Jerko saw her leaving a fashion show. She was tall, slender, and caught his eye. Jerko convinced the teenaged Melania to come in for a photo shoot. The black-and-white photos that he took launched the modeling career of Melania that took her to Milan and eventually the U.S., where she would meet her future husband, Donald Trump.
Melania was born Melanija
Knavs on April 26, 1970, near Sevnica, in what was then Yugoslavia. The
area she was raised in is comparable in size and population to New
Jersey and is nestled between Italy, Croatia, Austria, and Hungary in
the Julian Alps. Melania's father sold car parts and her mother worked
for a factory that made children's clothing. In fact, according to
people who live in the small town of Sevnica, Melania's mother could
often be seen sewing late into the night at home. She has a sister named
Ines, who also lives in the United States.
Donald
Trump's campaign has offered up a more polished version of Melania's
childhood, saying his third wife began modeling at the age of five and
that her mother was a fashion designer and her father was a manager at a
car dealership. This is a distortion of the real facts on all three
fronts. Melania's family lived in an apartment until she was a teenager.
At that time, they moved to a modest two-story home on the outskirts of
Sevnica. Melania's parents still live in this house, although they
spend a great deal of time in the United States, visiting their
daughters and grandchildren.
Melania was a good student who loved
to read. In school, she was also known for adding her own touch of flair
to her outfits by redesigning them. After she was discovered in 1987 in
Ljubljana, she began modeling full time and signed with an agent in
Milan. She came in second place in a national beauty pageant in
1992 – the year after Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia
after a 10-day war. As Melania's modeling career gained steam, the
former Melanija Knavs changed her name to the more easily pronounceable
Melania Knauss and dropped out of her design and architecture program at
the University of Ljubljana. Melania worked for major fashion houses in
Milan and Paris before moving to New York City in 1996.
Once in
New York City, Melania worked with legendary fashion photographers,
including Helmut Newton, Patrick Demarchelier, and Mario Testino.
Melania appeared on the covers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, In Style, Vanity Fair, Elle, Self, Glamour, GQ, FHM, New York Magazine, Ocean Drive, and Avenue. She appeared in the 2000 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Melania
met Donald Trump (who is 24 years her senior) at a party during New
York Fashion Week in 1998. She was 28 years old. The couple got engaged
in 2004 and married in 2005 in Palm Beach, Florida. Celebrities
including Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Heidi Klum, P. Diddy, Barbara Jones,
and then-Senator Hilary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton
attended the ceremony at the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church and
the reception in the enormous ballroom of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
Billy Joel serenaded the couple during the reception.
A year
later, Melania gave birth to a son, named Barron William Trump.
Reportedly, Melania hasn't been back to her hometown of Sevnica in many
years. However, after the birth of her son, she donated an ambulance to
the local health center.
.From Left 2 right;D. Trump, Ivanka Trump,Melanie and their son
Now the gal from the small town in
Slovenia could become the First Lady of the United States. One can only
imagine what the residents of tiny Sevnica will think about one of their
own riding her good looks all the way to the White House.
Source:celebritynetworth.com
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