Melania Knauss
| Melania Trump | |
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| First Lady of the United States | |
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Assumed office January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Michelle Obama |
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Melanija Knavs April 26, 1970 Novo Mesto, Slovenia, Yugoslavia |
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| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Donald Trump (m. 2005) |
| Children | Barron Trump |
| Residence | White House |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana |
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs[mɛˈlaːnija ˈknaːu̯s], April 26, 1970; Germanized to Melania Knauss) is the current First Lady of the United States. Before marrying future President Donald Trump in 2005, she worked as a fashion model; by 2016 she considered herself a "full-time mom".
She was born in the city of Novo Mesto in Slovenia, then known as the Socialist Republic of Slovenia within Yugoslavia. She became a permanent resident of the United States in 2001, and obtained U.S. citizenship in 2006.
Trump is the first naturalized U.S. citizen to become First Lady, and the second First Lady born overseas after Louisa Adams, who was born in London to an American father.
Melanija Knavs was born in Novo Mesto in the southeast of Slovenia, which was then part of Yugoslavia, on April 26, 1970. She is a daughter of Amalija (née Ulčnik) and Viktor Knavs, who managed car and motorcycle dealerships for a state-owned vehicle manufacturer. Her father was from the nearby town of Radeče. Her mother came from the village of Raka, and was a patternmaker at the children's clothing manufacturer "Jutranjka" in Sevnica.
Knavs grew up in a modest apartment in a housing block in Sevnica, in Slovenia's Lower Sava Valley. She has a older sister, Ines, and an older half-brother, whom she reportedly has never met, from her father's previous relationship. As the Communist Party in Slovenia upheld atheism, Knavs' father did not publicly sponsor her Christian sacraments of baptism or first communion. As such, Knavs was secretly baptized by Franc Čampa, the parish priest of St. Lawrence's Church in Raka, on June 14, 1970.
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