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Melania Trump is the wife of real estate billionaire and 2016 Republican President-Elect Donald Trump.

NAME
Melania Trump

OCCUPATION
Model

BIRTH DATE
April 26, 1970 (age 46)
PLACE OF BIRTH

Novo Mesto, Slovenia

Melania Trump is the wife of real estate billionaire and 2016 Republican President-Elect Donald Trump.

Synopsis

Born on April 26, 1970, Melania Trump is a former model and current third wife of real estate billionaire and 2016 Republican President-Elect Donald Trump.

Early Life

Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs, germanized to Melania Knauss) was born on April 26, 1970 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then part of communist Yugoslavia). Her father was a car dealer and her mother was a designer for children's clothing. She grew up in a modest home with her younger sister and later discovered she had an older half brother, whom her father had from a previous relationship.

Modeling Career

At 16 Trump began modeling and two years later, signed on with an agency in Milan. Although she attended the University of Ljubljana, she dropped out after one year to pursue her modeling career. (Since 2006 she had previously claimed she had earned a degree in architecture and design from the university.)

In her early days of modeling, Trump worked in Milan and Paris, before moving to New York in 1996. There she gained steady work, working with well-known photographers like Patrick Demarchelier and Helmut Newton and landing covers on magazines such as Harper's Bazaar (Bulgaria), Vanity Fair (Italy), GQ and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Marriage to Donald Trump

Melania met her future husband Donald Trump at a New York fashion party in 1998. Although she first refused to date him, the couple eventually began establishing a relationship and were engaged in 2004. The following year they married in a lavish Palm Beach, Florida ceremony with celebrity attendees including Shaquille O'Neal, Barbara Walters, Kelly Ripa, Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, and President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who was then a Senator from New York state.

In 2006, Trump gave birth to Barron William Trump. Their son is husband Donald's fifth child. That same year she also became a U.S. citizen.
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