- Born
- Birth nameMelanija Knavs
- Nicknames
- The Slovenian Sphinx
- FLOTUS
- Height5′ 11″ (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.
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
- She is the only First Lady to have posed nude, which occurred during her career as a model.
- Declined to invite Jill Biden, her successor as U.S. first lady, to the White House for a traditional meeting and tour of the presidential residence, which has been customary since 1952.
- On July 29, 2016, USA Today reported that Melania Trump's personal website was taken offline. Previously, Melania's bio-statement stated there that she received a "degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia." However, a biographer questioned the veracity of that claim by suggesting that Melania never completed her studies. At www.archive.org, the WayBack Machine has preserved a 2012 snapshot of Melania's website, where she printed the now-disputed statement.
- 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.
- 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]
- [on the media bias against Donald Trump] When did we hear or read any great stories about my husband - or about me? The true stuff. The facts. The real stuff. We never read the New York Times. They are bashing, bashing, bashing. [Oct.2016]
- Melania (2026) - $28,000,000
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content
