- Born
- Birth nameMelanija Knavs
- Nicknames
- The Slovenian Sphinx
- FLOTUS
- Height5′ 10¾″ (1.80 m)
- Melania Knauss was born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia and raised in Sevnica, Slovenia to Amalija Knavs, a patternmaker & Viktor Knavs, a car dealer.
She attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. She then studied Architecture and Design at the University of Ljubljana for one year before leaving to pursue a modeling career.
She started modeling in her home country of Slovenia, and other places in Europe, in cities such as, Paris and Milan, later moving to New York City. Melania is fluent in Slovene and English, and also speaks Italian, French, German and Serbo-Croatian.
On January 22, 2005, she married Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida. On March 20, 2006, she gave birth to their son Barron Trump in Manhattan, New York City. She became a US citizen in 2006.
On January 20, 2017, she became the First Lady of the United States.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kad
- SpouseDonald Trump(January 22, 2005 - present) (1 child)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesInes Knauss(Sibling)Mary Trump(Niece or Nephew)
- Heavy Slovenian accent
- In May 2018 she underwent embolization procedure for a benign kidney condition.
- She is the first First Lady of the United States who is a naturalized US citizen. She is also the second foreign-born First Lady, after Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president (1825-29), who was born to an US consul in London, England.
- Obtained her U.S. citizenship in 2006.
- Changed her surname Knavs to Knauss before Trump.
- Speaks Slovene and English as well as some French, Italian, German and Serbo-Croatian.
- [on the accusations against her husband] I believe my husband. This was all organized by the opposition. Did they ever check the background of these women ? They don't have any facts. (...) That never happened. [Oct.2016]
- My husband is real. He's raw. He tells it like it is. [Oct.2016]
- Don't feel sorry for me. I can handle everything. [Oct.2016]
- [about the attacks on her husband] The opposition doesn't want to talk about WikiLeaks and the Emails and Benghazi and all the rest of the stuff - they don't want to talk about it. So, they said: 'Let's do something to hurt his campaign'. [Oct.2016]
- [defending her husband's attacks on the Clintons] They're asking for it. They started. They started from the beginning of the campaign, putting my pictures from the modeling days [into the newspapers]. That were my modeling days and I'm proud of what I did. I worked very hard. [Oct.2016]
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