Melania Trump is the current wife of US President Donald Trump.She is the First Lady of the United States of America, succeeding the outgoing First Lady Michelle Obama.
Melania Trump was born on April 26, 1970 in Slovenia.Her real name was Melania Knauss but later adopted the her husband’s name, Trump
The first lady, who speaks six languages: her native Slovenian, and then Serbian, English, French, Italian and German, became a model at the age of 16.That was before she migrated to the US to continue with her modeling career.
She, through her lawyer Michael Wildes, obtained an H-1B visa in October 1996,whichenabled her travel to America. She obtained a green card and became a lawful permanent resident in 2001, applying as a model of “extraordinary ability”. She obtained U.S. citizenship in 2006, the year after her marriage
Melania appeared on the covers of Harper’s Bazaar (Bulgaria), Ocean Drive, In Style Weddings, New York Magazine, Avenue, Allure, Vanity Fair (Italy), Vogue (following her marriage to Donald Trump), and GQ (UK). She was featured as a bikini model in the 2000 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. As a model, she was associated with Irene Marie Management Group and Donald Trump’s Trump Model Management.
In the 2000s, she appeared in an advertisement for Aflac insurance in which she and the Aflac mascot, a duck, voiced at the time by comedian Gilbert Gottfried, exchange personalities via a Frankenstein-like mad experiment.
Trump spotted Melania at Fashion Week party in New York City in September 1998.The billionaire was married at that time but didn’t mind noting down Melaina’s phone number.
The two got engaged in 2004 and later exchanged vows on January 22, 2005
Throughout her life,Melania has focused in modeling. She is one of successful women who dropped out of school but ended up making it in life.
History shows that the first lady attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana and later studied at the University of Ljubljana for one year before dropping out. She never bothered to continue with school.
Melania has one child,Barron William Trump,who was born in 2006.
