Melania Trump
| 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, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Donald Trump (m. 2005) |
| Children | Barron Trump |
| Residence | Trump Tower |
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs[mɛˈlaːnija ˈknaːu̯s], April 26, 1970; Germanized to Melania Knauss) is a Slovene American former model and the First Lady of the United States. She is married to American businessman and 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Born in Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia, Trump became a permanent resident of the United States in 2001 and a citizen in 2006. She is the second foreign-born First Lady of the United States, following Louisa Adams in 1825.
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. When later working as a model, she changed the Slovene form of her last name Knavs to the German Knauss.
She grew up in a modest apartment in a housing block in Sevnica, in Slovenia's Lower Sava Valley. She has a sister and an elder half-brother, whom she reportedly has never met, from her father's previous relationship.
When she was a teenager, the family moved to a two-story house in Sevnica, and as a high school student, she lived in a high-rise apartment in Ljubljana. Melanija attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana, and studied at the University of Ljubljana for one year before dropping out. It has been reported that she speaks six languages: English, French, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian and her native Slovene.
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