Melania Trump is a Slovene American former model who is married to American businessman and designated 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Melania was born in Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia) on April 26, 1970, she became a permanent resident of the United States in 2001 and a citizen in 2006.
Here are 19 interesting facts Melania Trump You Didn’t Know About :
#1. She Is Trump’s Third Wife
Trump has a bad track record with relationships. Melania knows about Donald Trump’s failed marriages leaving Ivana and having an affair with Marla Maples. He later married Maples in 1993 but their marriage ended in 1999.
#2. There’s A Huge Age Gap
Melania Trump is only 45 years old. Melania is only seven years older than Donald Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump, Jr.
#3. Former Model
She started modeling at the age of 5. Yes, the Slovenian model was already a superstar when she was a child. By the age of 16, she was in professional commercials.
#4. Moved around a lot before finally becoming a US citizen.
Born in Melanija Knavs in Slovenia, she moved to Milan, Italy when she was 18 for her modeling career. She also moved to Milan for a short while before settling down in the United States in the mid-1990s. She finally became a US citizen in 2006.
#5. Melania’s Dream Wedding
Melania wore a John Galliano gown to her wedding. When she married one of the wealthiest men in the world, she spared no expense. The cost of the wedding itself and the party was well over $1 million.
#6. Businesswoman
She is a successful business as she is with modeling. She isn’t just all beauty. She studied architecture and design at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She also launched her own jewelry line on QVC in 2010.
#7. Dedicated Mother
She has a son with Donald Trump. Running around modeling, promoting her jewelry line, and supporting Donald Trump in his candidacy she also is a mother. Her son, Barron, is her top priority. “I’m raising him and this is the age he needs a parent at home.”
#8. She Treats Her Son Like Royalty
She isn’t a clingy mother. Barron Trump has his own floor at the Trump penthouse in Manhattan, but she raises him by herself, and doesn’t need the help of a nanny.
#9. Good Taste
She has expensive taste in interior design. Donald Trump has several properties that Melania works, sleeps, and plays at. All of them are decorated from the floor up. Their three story penthouse in Trump Towers is decorated with 24K gold and marble floors.
#10. Very Outspoken
She’ll defend what her husband says. She may seem reserved when it comes to Donald Trump’s campaign, but she isn’t afraid to speak her mind. When Donald Trump was criticized for saying he would ban Muslims, she said, “It’s not for all the Muslims. We need to screen them, who’s coming to the country.”
#11. Melania is fluent in four languages.
Having moved around so much when she was younger for her modeling career, she has learned Slovenian, English, French, Serbian and German.
#12. Melania & Donald
They meet at a Fashion Week. You may wonder how this supermodel fell in love with a business mogul like Donald Trump. They met at a fashion week party in 1998 when he was in a relationship with another woman.
#13. Melania Stays Out The Campaign
Leaves the campaigning to Donald Trump. “I’m choosing not to go political in public because that is my husband’s job. I’m very political in private life, and between me and my husband I know everything that is going on.” Melania knows her husband is the one who running for President and aware of everything he is saying and doing but chooses to stay out of it for the most part for her own personal reasons.
#14. She Loves Her Extended Family
She has four step-kids. Melania isn’t an estranged step-mother of Ivanka, Tiffany, Eric, or Donald Trump Jr. She has been seen taking pictures and getting along with all of them.
#15. She Is A Cover Girl
Melania has been on dozens of covers for Vogue, Glamour, Vanity Fair and GQ magazines.
#16. She Gives Back To Charity
She doesn’t spend all the money on herself. Melania has supposed several charity organizations like The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Police Athletic League, and The American Red Cross.
#17. If She Became The First Lady…
When asked what she would do if Donald Trump were the next president, she told The New York Times, “I would be very traditional. Like Betty Ford or Jackie Kennedy. I would support him.”
#18. She’s A Billy Joel Fan
The famous piano man serenaded the crowd during Donald and Melania’s wedding. At their wedding reception, Billy Joel sang “Just The Way You Are,” and “The Lady Is A Tramp.”
#19. She Doesn’t Agree On Everything With Donald Trump
Like every other marriage, these couples don’t always see eye to eye.
“I give him my opinions, and sometimes he takes them in, and sometimes he does not. Do I agree with him all the time? No. I think it is good for a healthy relationship. I am not a ‘yes’ person. No matter who you are married to, you still need to lead your life.”
During an interview with Anderson Cooper, she admitted she doesn’t agree with everything Trump says.
“I don’t agree with everything that he says, but you know, that is normal. I’m my own person, I tell him what I think, I’m standing very strong on the ground on my two feet and I’m my own person, and I think that’s very important in the relationship.”
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