There is almost more talk about the wife of the 45th President of the United States than about Donald Trump himself. This is due to the fact that his wife, Melania Trump (née Knavs), achieved a lot on her own long before their wedding. Therefore, one should not assume that all her popularity and fame is due only to a successful marriage with a very famous person.
Melania is a very strong, interesting and creative person, as her biography clearly demonstrates. She tried herself in many fields of activity, and ultimately succeeded significantly in modeling and design.
Biography
Melania Knavs, much better known today as Melania Trump, is the wife of Donald Trump, the elected 45th President of the United States. But it cannot be said that the biography of the first lady of the United States is connected exclusively with her famous husband. Even in her youth, she achieved considerable success as a fashion model, posing, among other things, for men's magazines. In addition, she tried herself as an actress and starred in Ben Stiller's comedy Zoolander.
Childhood and youth
The wife of the 45th President of the United States was born on April 26, 1970 (zodiac sign Taurus) in the Slovenian town of Sevnica, which at that time was part of Yugoslavia. She is Slovenian by nationality. The parents were wealthy people. Father, Victor Knavs, worked as a driver for the head of the administration, and then became a traveling salesman for a state automobile company. Mother Amalia worked as a fashion designer at a local textile factory. The family had two children - Melania has an older sister, Ines, who was born a year earlier.
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Melania Trump in her youth with her husband Donald Trump and son
As a child, the future first lady of the United States was diligent, purposeful and disciplined. She studied well at school, teachers and classmates today first of all remember that Melania was always polite and not a single person heard a bad word from her. After graduating from school, the girl moves to the capital of Slovenia, where she becomes a student at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana.
However, she was not destined to graduate from university: soon Melania met professional photographer Stane Erko, who convinced her to start a career in the modeling business.
At the age of 16, Melania Knavs slightly alters her surname in a Western manner and, under the name Melania Knauss, leaves first for Milan and then for Paris.
Significant meeting
Disputes about the authenticity of the photo of Melania Trump before and after plastic surgery are still ongoing. The fruits of her past career even became the subject of a serious political scandal during Donald Trump's run for president. But this is, without a doubt, a purely practical side of life for one of the world's most famous couples. It is worth diluting it with a small portion of sentimental details of the historical meeting of these spouses.
Donald's first attempt to get acquainted with Melania took place at one of the Manhattan parties and seemed extremely insulting to the girl. According to her, the boyfriend was drunk and not particularly polite, which is why he received a daring refusal to ask for a phone number from a cold and unapproachable beauty. Perhaps this shocked him so much that after the incident he showed even greater persistence and made a lot of efforts to ensure that the obstinate model became his wife. By the way, the third one. Before this, the US President was married to Czechoslovakian model Ivana Zelnichkova and actress Marla Maples (well, a person is partial to gorgeous blondes, what can you do).
Career
To be more in demand in the fashion world, Melania had plastic surgery: she changed the shape of her nose, increased the volume of her lips and the size of her breasts. Erotic photo shoots for magazines such as GQ and Max brought popularity. Later, the model’s photos appeared on the covers of printed publications Vogue, In Style, Glamour, Elle and many others.
In the second half of the 90s, Melania’s photos began to be published in America, where she moved permanently and settled in New York. She continued her modeling career and also tried herself as an actress. Trump's future wife appeared in the comedy Zoolander by director and actor Ben Stiller, but the young woman's name was not mentioned in the credits.
In 2010, Melania launched her own jewelry line. Her signature brand is gradually conquering the world. Moreover, in addition to the jewelry itself, Trump creates designs for wristwatches, and also produces perfumes and cosmetics for women.
Personal life
In 1999, at a photo shoot for Allure magazine, the model met Donald Trump. This meeting radically changed Melania's personal life. They began dating, and the public learned about the affair during the couple's radio appearance on The Howard Stern Show. The future US president called his beloved “the love of his life.” In honor of the engagement, the bride received an 11-carat diamond ring worth $1.2 million.
In January 2005, the wedding of Melania and Donald took place in Florida. The age difference between the spouses is 24 years. By the way, Hillary Clinton, Trump's future opponent for the presidency, was present at the wedding ceremony. As a wedding gift from friends, the newlyweds received the song “The Lady and the Tramp,” a reworked composition from the Walt Disney cartoon “Beauty and the Beast.”
The wedding ceremony was widely covered by the press. The public was primarily attracted by the luxury of the celebration. Melania's dress from Christian Dior was estimated at $200 thousand. John Galliano, who was then working for the French brand, worked on it. Tailors hand-embroidered the dress with stones and pearls. It is not surprising that his weight was as much as 27 kg. And the wedding cake, more than 1.5 m high, was decorated with 3 thousand confectionery roses.
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Melania Trump and Donald Trump
A year later, a son was born into the Trump family, who was named Barron William Trump. And if for Melania this child was the first, then for the man it was already the fifth: President Trump has children from two previous marriages: sons Donald Jr. and Eric, as well as daughters Ivanka and Tiffany. His father and mother dedicated a 20-minute appearance to Barron on the radio show Imus in the Morning.
Melania is an avid fitness fan. She enjoys cardio exercises, as well as Pilates and tennis. It is noteworthy that the first lady does not adhere to any diets, does not exclude fried foods, sweets and ice cream, but she looks great - with a height of 178 cm, her weight is 60 kg.
During a speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention, Mrs. Trump expressed support for her husband as a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Her speech was a success, but later journalists compared the text of Melania’s speech with what Michelle Obama, the wife of President Barack Obama, said 8 years ago. It turned out that some paragraphs coincide almost word for word. However, representatives of the Trumps rejected the accusation of plagiarism.
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However, in any case, that speech did not prevent Melania from becoming the new First Lady of the United States after the election results were announced in November 2016.
True, one can hardly say from a woman’s face that she is happy. More and more often, Melania was caught on television cameras with a sad expression on her face. It later became known that she refused to move to the White House. But it turned out that the reason for this was her desire to give her son the opportunity to finish the school year in peace. The family was reunited in the summer of 2022. But the public stood its ground - the first lady was unhappy.
With the beginning of Trump's presidency, various unpleasant details of his life began to emerge more and more often. In January 2022, the US President found himself at the center of another sex scandal. The media found out that even before the start of the election race, the billionaire paid porn actress Stephanie Clifford $130 thousand for her silence. She should not have told anyone that they had a close relationship in 2006 - a year after Donald entered into an official marriage with Melania.
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Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump and her son Barron
The First Lady did not comment on this situation, but through her behavior she made her offense clear. For some time she did not go out into the world and did not appear in the company of her husband. There were rumors on the Internet that a divorce was imminent. But in February 2022, Melania and Donald appeared before the public again - together and quite happy.
From insider information it became known that the woman had to forgive her unfaithful husband and forget about the divorce. She doesn't want to cause a scandal because it could negatively affect their son Barron.
In May 2022, the president's wife underwent kidney surgery. The White House said the surgery was planned earlier, everything went well, and there were no complications. No other details about Melania's health were disclosed. American doctors interviewed by the media suggested that the cause of the operation could be angiomyolipoma, a benign tumor in the kidneys.
The news surprised some, since the week before Mrs. Trump had appeared in public and announced the launch of her social program Be Best. She said that she would teach children to deal with the difficulties of the modern world. And she looked healthy and happy at the ceremony.
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In turn, Donald Trump was filled with a sense of pride for his wife. And he did not hide his warm feelings for her - he kissed Melania in front of everyone. And she did not resist this (after the scandal with the porn actress, she did not even allow her husband to take her hand).
In July 2022, Melania and her husband went to the summit in Helsinki, where she attracted the attention of journalists with a frightened expression on her face while greeting Vladimir Putin. This became a topic of heated discussion on Twitter. Followers looked for reasons both in the personal life of the first lady and in the tense relations between countries. However, it is quite possible that Mrs. Trump simply relaxed her facial muscles - this is what fashion models do to look beautiful in the photo.
In 2022, the US First Lady attended the G7 summit along with the spouses of the heads of the G7 countries. The media appointed Mrs. Trump and Brigitte Macron, the wife of Emmanuel Macron, the 25th President of France, as the main fashionistas of this event.
Love story
After Donald melted the ice of Melania's cold blue eyes, the relationship was given a start. The couple began their path to happiness with a joint business project. They launched a TV show and gave a joint interview on the radio, where they publicly announced the fact of their love affair. Donald became so emotional at this moment that he made a statement to the whole world about “the love of his life.”
Melania's demand in the modeling business then skyrocketed. All the largest agencies and publications were simply tearing up this most popular person, vying with each other, inviting her to star in racy photo shoots with a touch of chic and elegance. She took off. Photos of the president's naked passion were featured, in particular, in the British magazine GQ. And even though many consider such behavior inappropriate for a high-ranking woman of high society, the photo shoot turned out to be so impressive that you can’t take your eyes off the pictures.
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Afterwards, according to the classics of the genre, a wedding followed. Of course, loud, grandiose and generally fabulous. Just look at Melania’s obscenely expensive wedding dress from Dior, which was discussed with foam at the mouth by all the media and women’s communities of all social levels. But she looked really great in it. What about the cake? A masterpiece of incredible size, made with impeccable skill and decorated with more than one thousand roses. Luxury, and that's all. How could it be otherwise if the wedding takes place between a famous billionaire and a popular model?
Melania Trump now
On October 2, 2022, it became known that the Trump couple and their son Barron had tested positive for coronavirus. But already on October 14, on the White House website, Melania spoke in detail about how her family suffered from COVID-19.
In November 2022, information appeared in the media, citing former aides of US President Trump, about an imminent divorce, which Melania would file for after the end of her husband’s presidential term.
Nevertheless, in official interviews, the first lady claims that she has an excellent relationship with her husband. According to journalists, Melania is bound by a contract according to which she cannot publish information criticizing the president.
Also, some media outlets claimed that the wife of the head of the White House allegedly convinced her husband to admit defeat in the elections. In fact, the First Lady is demanding a recount of “legitimate ballots” to ensure a fair vote in the election of the new US President.
Details of family life
Perhaps the main event in the life of one of the most talked about couples on the planet is the birth of a child. In 2006, his legal wife gave Trump a son. His name was Barron William Trump. Besides him, the US President has four more offspring. The birth of the youngest was marked by a twenty-minute radio interview, where the happy father proudly declared that now “everything is perfect.”
The billionaire's wife, having completed her primary task - to give her husband an heir - could not resist returning to the big stage. Melania took part in many projects, for example, she starred in an advertisement for an insurance company and opened a jewelry business. Then there were business projects with cosmetics, some difficulties and failures, but the husband and wife overcame all the problems hand in hand.
Another significant indicator of their incredible mutual support is Melania’s participation in her husband’s election campaign. She made a speech in defense of her favorite presidential candidate when he allowed himself harsh and negative statements. But it was unlikely to be a success and greatly helped the cause (if not vice versa), since journalists ended up recalling her early works in nude style and compared the speech to the one Michelle Obama once gave. And not without reason, since there were similarities. Most likely, this was the result of the subversive work of speechwriters.
