Here are 13 facts you probably didn’t know about Melania Trump. (Photo: Archive)
She was born in Slovenia, former Yugoslavia, under the communist regime. (Photo: Archive)
Her last name is Knavs, but she changed it for Knauss when she moved to the US in 1996 and started her modeling career. (Photo: Archive)
Her dad (left) was a car salesman and her mother (right) worked in a textile fabric. (Photo: Archive)
She was discovered by a professional photographer and started modeling at the age of 16. (Photo: Archive)
She speaks 5 languages: Slovenian, English, French, German, and Serbo-Croatian. (Photo: Archive)
She started studying architecture in Ljubljana, but dropped out to move to Milan and fully focus on her modeling career. (Photo: Archive)
She has a “secret” half-brother named Denis Cigelnjak. (Photo: Archive)
When she first met Trump in 1998, she refused to give him her phone-number because he was with another woman. (Photo: Archive)
Donald Trump and Melania spent over $1,000,000 on their wedding. (Photo: Archive)
Billy Joel played at her wedding. (Photo: Archive)
Bill and Hillary Clinton attended her wedding with Donald Trump. (Photo: Archive)
She is the second First Lady to be born outside of the U.S. in the last 200 years. (Photo: Archive)
She said on an interview that one of the things she doesn’t like about her husband is the way he tweets. (Photo: Archive)
Since her husband began to gain power in the race for the presidency of the United States, the whole world has had something to say about Melania Trump. Some have strongly criticized her for her former career as a model, while others have called her the “next Jackie Kennedy”.
But the truth is, there’s much more to Melania Trump than her title as the new First Lady of the U.S. Before becoming the third wife of the now most powerful man of the free world, Melania had a life in the former U.S.S.R and a very successful career of her own.
So, what’s behind the latest First Lady of the United States? These 13 facts will help us unveil the mystery.
