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Melania Trump
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First Lady of the United States
Assumed office
January 20, 2017
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byMichelle Obama
Personal details
Born
Melanija Knavs

(1970-04-26) April 26, 1970 (age 48)
Novo Mesto, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
CitizenshipAmerican
Political partyRepublican[1]
Spouse(s)
Donald Trump (m. 2005)
ChildrenBarron Trump
Residence
Signature

Melania Trump (/məˈlɑːniə/; born Melanija Knavs; [mɛˈlaːnija ˈknaːu̯s], Germanized to Melania Knauss; born April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian-American former fashion model, the wife of the 45th U.S. president Donald Trump, and the current First Lady of the United States.[2]

Melanija Knavs was born in Novo Mesto, and grew up in Sevnica, in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia.[3] She worked as a fashion model through agencies in Milan and Paris, later moving to New York City in 1996.[4] Her modeling career was associated with Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management.[5]

In 2001, Knavs became a permanent resident of the United States.[6] She married Donald Trump in 2005 and obtained U.S. citizenship in 2006. She is the second First Lady born outside the United States (the first being Louisa Adams),[7] and the first one to be a naturalized U.S. citizen.[8]

Early life

Melanija Knavs was born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), on April 26, 1970.[9][10] Her father, Viktor Knavs (b. 24 March 1944), was from the nearby town of Radeče and managed car and motorcycle dealerships for a state-owned vehicle manufacturer.[11][12] Her mother Amalija (née Ulčnik) (b. 9 July 1945) came from the village of Raka and worked as a patternmaker at the children's clothing manufacturer Jutranjka in Sevnica.[13][14] As a child, Melania and other children of workers at the factory participated in fashion shows that featured children's clothing.[15] She has an older sister, Ines, who is an artist and her "longtime confidant",[16][17][18] and an older half-brother—whom she reportedly has never met—from her father's previous relationship.[19][20]

Knavs grew up in a modest apartment in a housing block in Sevnica, in the Lower Sava Valley.[2][21] Her father was in the League of Communists of Slovenia, which espoused a policy of state atheism.[22] As was common, however, he had his daughters secretly baptized as Catholics. When the Trumps met Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2017, Melania brought her rosary and asked the Pope to bless it.[23][24]

When Knavs was a teenager, she moved with her family to a two-story house in Sevnica.[25] As a high-school student, she lived in a high-rise apartment in Ljubljana. She attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana[26] and studied architecture and design at the University of Ljubljana for one year before she dropped out.[27][28][29]

Career

Modeling

Melania Trump at QVC Red Carpet Style Party, 2011

She began modeling at five years old and started doing commercial work at sixteen when she posed for the Slovenian fashion photographer Stane Jerko.[30][31] When she began working as a model, she transcribed the Slovene version of her last name "Knavs" to the German version "Knauss".[32]

At eighteen, she signed with a modeling agency in Milan, Italy.[33] In 1992, she was named runner-up in the Jana Magazine "Look of the Year" contest, held in Ljubljana, which promised its top three contestants an international modeling contract.[9][34]

After attending the University of Ljubljana for one year,[35] she modeled for fashion houses in Paris and Milan, where in 1995 she met Metropolitan Models co-owner Paolo Zampolli, a friend of her future husband Donald Trump, who was on a scouting trip in Europe. Zampolli urged her to travel to the United States, where he said he would like to represent her.[15]

In 1996, Knauss moved to Manhattan.[15][34][33][36] Zampolli arranged for her to share an apartment with photographer Matthew Atanian in Zeckendorf Towers in Union Square.[15] She did 10 paid modeling jobs in the U.S. in the seven weeks before she received legal permission to work in the country.[6]

Business

In 2010, she launched her own line of jewelry, Melania Timepieces and Jewelry, for sale on QVC. She also marketed a Melania Skin Care Collection, sold in high-end department stores.[37] According to a financial filing in 2016, her businesses brought in between $15,000 and $50,000 that year.[38] In 2017, the two companies that manufactured her jewelry and skin care products under license said they had terminated their relationship with her.[39] On inauguration day her companies and products were listed in her official White House biography, but they were quickly removed.[40] A White House spokesperson said her companies are no longer active and "the First Lady has no intention of using her position for profit and will not do so."[39]

Relationship with Donald Trump

Early relationship

Melania and Donald Trump meeting President Bill Clinton, September 2000

In September 1998, she met real estate mogul Donald Trump at a party that Zampolli hosted at the Times Square nightclub the Kit Kat Club (now the Stephen Sondheim Theatre).[41] Trump and Marla Maples had been separated since May 1997, and he attended the party with Celina Midelfart. When Midelfart went off to use the restroom, Trump approached Knauss and asked for her telephone number. She took his phone number instead, and they subsequently began a relationship and frequented the 1990s Greenwich Village hot spot Moomba.[15][2][42]

Melania continued her modeling career[15] with her American magazine cover shoots, including In Style Weddings,[43] New York Magazine, Avenue,[44] Philadelphia Style,[45] Vanity Fair,[46] and Vogue.[47] While they were dating, her family relocated to New York, where they lived for most of the year in 2015.[48]

In 1999, the couple gained attention after an interview on The Howard Stern Show. When she was asked by The New York Times what her role would be if Donald Trump were to become President, she replied: "I would be very traditional, like Betty Ford or Jackie Kennedy."[12][49]

In 2000, she appeared with Donald Trump while he campaigned for that year's Reform Party presidential nomination; she also modeled for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[50][48]

Marriage

Melania and Donald Trump attending Oscar de la Renta fashion show, 2006

Knauss and Donald Trump became engaged in 2004. On January 22, 2005, they married in an Anglican service at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida, followed by a reception in the ballroom at her husband's Mar-a-Lago estate.[51][52] The marriage was her first and his third. The event was attended by celebrities such as Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Rudy Giuliani, Heidi Klum, Star Jones, P. Diddy, Shaquille O'Neal, Barbara Walters, Conrad Black, Regis Philbin, Simon Cowell, Kelly Ripa, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, and former president Bill Clinton.[52][53] At the reception, Billy Joel serenaded the crowd with "Just the Way You Are" and supplied new lyrics to the tune of "The Lady Is a Tramp".[52] The Trumps' wedding ceremony and reception were widely covered by the media.[36] She wore a $200,000 dress made by John Galliano of the house of Christian Dior.[52]

On March 20, 2006, she gave birth to their son, Barron William Trump.[54] She suggested his middle name, while her husband suggested his first name.[55]

2016 presidential campaign

Main article: Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
Melania gives the thumbs up at a campaign event with her husband Donald and son Barron, November 2015

In November 2015, she was asked about her husband's presidential campaign and replied: "I encouraged him because I know what he will do and what he can do for America. He loves the American people and he wants to help them."[56] She played a relatively small role in her husband's campaign, which is atypical of spouses of presidential candidates.[57][58][59]

In 2016, she told CNN her focus as First Lady would be to help women and children. She also said she would combat cyberbullying, especially among children.[60]

In July 2016, her official website was redirected to trump.com. On Twitter, she stated that her site was outdated and did not "accurately reflect [her] current business and professional interests".[61]

2016 RNC and plagiarism concerns

On July 18, 2016, she gave a speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention. The speech contained a paragraph that was nearly identical to a paragraph of Michelle Obama's speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.[62][63][64] When asked about the speech, Trump said she wrote the speech herself "with as little help as possible."[65] Two days later, Trump staff writer Meredith McIver took responsibility and apologized for the "confusion".[66]

Lawsuit against Daily Mail and General Trust

In February 2017, she sued Daily Mail and General Trust, the owner of the Daily Mail, seeking $150 million in damages over an August 2016 article that falsely alleged that she had worked for an escort service during her modeling days. The Mail retracted the article, apologized, and printed the retraction from the blogger they were quoting, who said: "I had no legitimate factual basis to make these false statements and I fully retract them".[67] The lawsuit stated the article had ruined her "unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to establish "multimillion dollar business relationships for a multi-year term during which Plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world".[68] Her claim raised potential ethical questions with its implication that she intended to profit from being First Lady.[69] On February 18, the lawsuit was amended, removing the language about her earning potential and focusing instead on emotional distress.[70] In April 2017, the parties settled the lawsuit and the Daily Mail issued a statement that said, "We accept that these allegations about Mrs. Trump are not true and we retract and withdraw them." The Mail agreed to pay her $2.9 million.[71][72]

Statement on bullying

Five days before the election, she told a crowd of supporters in Pennsylvania: "Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers. It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied, or attacked. It is terrible when that happens on the playground. And it is absolutely unacceptable when it is done by someone with no name hiding on the Internet."[73] Regarding the contrast of her platform with her husband's use of Twitter during his campaign, Melania said shortly after the election that she had rebuked him "all the time" but that "he will do what he wants to do in the end".[74]

First Lady of the United States

Donald and Melania at the Liberty Ball on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017

She assumed the role of First Lady of the United States on January 20, 2017.[75][76] She continued living in Manhattan at the Trump Tower with their son, Barron, until the end of his 2016–2017 school year at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School.[77][78] They moved into the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 2017.[79] Her Secret Service code name is "Muse" (beginning with the same letter as Trump's code name, "Mogul", per Secret Service tradition).[80] Her staff of nine is less than half of that of the two previous first ladies.[81]

She is the second foreign-born woman to hold the title of First Lady, after Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, who was born in 1775 in London to a father from Maryland and an English mother.[82][83] She is the first First Lady to be a naturalized citizen (rather than birthright citizen), and the first whose mother tongue is not English.[84] At 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m), she is also one of the tallest First Ladies, tied with Michelle Obama and Eleanor Roosevelt.[85]

Melania and the First Lady of Argentina, Juliana Awada in Buenos Aires, November 2018.

On March 8, 2017, she hosted her first White House event, a luncheon for International Women's Day. She spoke to an audience of women about her life as a female immigrant, and about working towards gender equality both domestically and abroad, noting the role of education as a tool against gender inequality.[86][87][88]

In January 2018, The Wall Street Journal reported that during a three-month period where she lived in New York the previous year, she took Air Force jet flights (between New York City, Florida and Washington) at a cost of more than $675,000 to taxpayers.[89][90] In comparison, former first lady Michelle Obama's solo travel cost an average of about $350,000 a year.[89][90]

On January 30, 2018 – the night of the State of the Union address – she broke with tradition when she rode with her guests in a separate car in the Presidential motorcade, rather than riding with her husband in the presidential limousine.[91]

Emmanuel Macron's official state visit to the United States, April 2018

On March 13, 2018, Trump scheduled a March 20 meeting with policy executives from technology companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Snap, and Twitter, to address online harassment and Internet safety, with a particular focus on how those issues affect children.[92] Trump's office has avoided the use of the term "cyberbullying,"[92] and Trump has come under criticism for championing Internet civility while her husband's Internet behavior has been noted as uncivil.[92][93] Trump attended the roundtable event, focusing on how children are affected by modern technology. Trump said "I am well aware that people are skeptical of me discussing this topic," but "that will not stop me from doing what I know is right."[94]

Trump took an active role in planning the Trump administration's first state dinner on April 23, 2018, to honor French President Emmanuel Macron.[95] With Brigitte Macron, the French president's wife, Trump visited a Paul Cézanne exhibit at the National Gallery of Art the day before.[96][97][98]

Trump walks with schoolchildren during her visit to The Nest Children's Home, October 2018, in Limuru, Kenya

In October 2018, Trump took a four-country, solo tour of Africa, without her husband, focusing on conservation and children and families, visiting Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt.[99]

On November 13, 2018, Trump issued an "extraordinary" public statement calling for the firing of Deputy National Security Advisor Mira Ricardel. She had reportedly been privately pushing for Ricardel's ouster for weeks. The next day it was announced that Ricardel would "transition to a new role within the Administration."[100] It was described as unusual for a First Lady to be publicly involved in White House personnel decisions.[101]

Be Best campaign

The Trumps at the announcement of the First Lady's Be Best initiative

On May 7, 2018, Trump formally started the Be Best public awareness campaign, focusing on well-being for youth, and advocating against cyberbullying and drug use.[102] The campaign was accompanied by a booklet that was promoted as having been written "By First Lady Melania Trump and the Federal Trade Commission [FTC]", but it was nearly identical to a document prepared in 2014 by the FTC.[103] The similarities prompted accusations of plagiarism, to which her office responded by admonishing the press for reporting on the issue.[104] The fact checking site Snopes found the charge of plagiarism "Mostly False" saying, "Melania Trump did not claim she had written the pamphlet herself, and she contributed an introduction to a slightly revised version of the booklet. The FTC was always credited for the creation of the booklet and supported its inclusion in the First Lady's 'Be Best' campaign."[105]

Immigration

On June 17, 2018, referring to the Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" immigration policy under which children were separated from their parents, Trump stated that she "hates to see children separated from their families" and wants there to be "successful immigration reform."[106] On June 21 she held a publicly unannounced trip to Texas to get a first-hand look at the crisis and held a roundtable with doctors, medical staff, social workers and other experts at the Upbring New Hope center.[107]

Fashion

Trump almost immediately became a fashion icon after her husband's inauguration on January 20, 2017, with various media outlets reporting on her fashion choices. Vogue has compared Trump's wardrobe as First Lady to that of Jacqueline Kennedy and Nancy Reagan, noting that she prefers "strongly tailored pieces" in bold colors and almost exclusively wears high-end designers.[108][109]

Philanthropy

Melania Trump visiting the Cincinnati Children's Hospital in February 2018

Trump is involved with a number of charities, including the Martha Graham Dance Company,[110] the Boys Club of New York, the American Red Cross,[111] Make A Wish Foundation and the Police Athletic League.[37][112]

Personal life

Languages

Trump's native language is Slovene. She also speaks English and Serbo-Croatian.[113] Trump claims that she also speaks French, Italian, and German.[114]

Religion

When the President and First Lady visited Vatican City in May 2017, she said that she is a Catholic. She is the first Catholic to live in the White House since President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline and the second Catholic First Lady of the United States.[115][116] "During their visit to the Vatican...the pope blessed the first lady’s rosary beads, and the two had a lighthearted conversation about what she feeds her husband. She spent time in front of a statue of the Madonna at the Vatican’s children’s hospital and laid flowers at its feet."[117]

While she is Catholic, her husband describes himself as Presbyterian, and Melania and Donald Trump were married at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church.[118][119][120]

Health

On May 14, 2018, she underwent an embolization, a minimally-invasive procedure to deliberately block a blood vessel,[121] to treat a benign kidney condition. The procedure was successful and there were no complications reported.[122]

Awards

Award Category Nominated work Result Ref(s)
39th Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Supporting Actress Fahrenheit 11/9 as Herself Pending [123]

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Honorary titles
Preceded by
Michelle Obama 		First Lady of the United States
2017–present 		Incumbent
Honorary Chair of the
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
2017–present
Preceded by
Ann Romney 		Spouse of the Republican nominee for President of the United States
2016 		Most recent
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