The first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, is in the news these days amid reports that she plans to divorce her husband and the president of the United States, Donald Trump. Melania recently made netizens nervous when she ignored social distancing and decided to walk arm in arm with a military man and stay away from President Trump during the November 11 Veterans Day wreath-laying ceremony. It should be noted that this was Trump’s first exit since the defeat of the US presidential election.
Here are some interesting facts about Melania Trump:
1. Melania is the second foreign-born first lady
Melania Trump is America’s second foreign-born first lady after Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams. However, according to The New Yorker, “Louisa Adams doesn’t really count, as her father was an American and from a politically connected family that went back and forth between England and its newly liberated colonies.”
2. Melania met Donald Trump at a Fashion Week party
According to the New Yorker, Melania met Donald Trump in 1998 at a Fashion Week party in New York. Sources say Trump reportedly asked for her number.
In 2004, Trump proposed to her on the night of the Costume Institute gala and the two were married in 2005. The wedding was attended by several high-profile people, including Billy Joel, Paul Anka, Kelly Ripa, Barbara Walters, Matt Lauer, Shaquille . O’Neal, Anna Wintour, Heidi Klum, Sean Combs, and Simon Cowell.
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3. Melania was born in part of communist Yugoslavia
Melania Trump was born Melanija Knavs in 1970 in Slovenia. According to NBC, Melania’s hometown, Sevnica, was part of communist Yugoslavia. When communism collapsed in 1991, around 2 million Slovenian citizens gained independence from Yugoslavia.
4. He studied design and architecture.
The New York Times reported that Melania attended the Design and Photography High School in Ljubljana. In 1987, a photographer saw her and asked her if she wanted to be a model. The photographer sent her photos to a Slovenian cultural center, which accepted her into a fashion course for models.
After completing her high school, Melania started and dropped out of the architecture school at the University of Ljubljana to focus on her modeling career.
5. Melania can speak many languages
Melania Trump can speak up to six languages. CNN reported that Donald Trump’s wife can speak Slovenian, French, Serbian, German, Italian and English. In 2009, People reported that by the time Barron Trump was only 3 years old, he could already converse in Slovenian, English and French.
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