Melania Trump is a former model and the third wife of 45th U.S. President, real estate billionaire and former reality TV star Donald Trump and now holds the title as First Lady.
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs, Germanized to Melania Knauss) was born on April 26, 1970, in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then part of communist Yugoslavia). Her father, Viktor Knavs was a car dealer and her mother, Amalija Knavs was a designer for children's clothing. She grew up in a modest home with her younger sister and an older half brother, whom her father had from a previous relationship. She moved to New York in 1996 on a work visa and has since appeared on the covers of New York Magazine, Vogue in Italy, Harper’s Bazaar in Bulgaria and GQ in the UK.
As the first lady, Melania has concentrated on other projects rather than her business ventures. The projects she is carrying out are raising awareness of cyberbullying, mostly centered on children's welfare and good family life.she’s delivered valentines and Easter baskets to hospitalized children and had visited schools across the United States and around the world, according to her White House biography. Melania has also worked to raise awareness of opioid abuse, particularly its effects on infants and unborn children. In May 2018, she launched the BE BEST campaign. The three-pronged campaign focuses on well-being, social media use, and opioid abuse.
Melania met her future husband Donald Trump at a New York fashion party in 1998. Although she first refused to date him, the couple eventually began establishing a relationship and were engaged in 2004. The following year they married in a lavish Palm Beach, Florida, ceremony, with celebrity attendees including Shaquille O'Neal, Barbara Walters, Kelly Ripa, Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, former President Bill Clinton, and the New York Senator Hillary Clinton. In 2006, Trump gave birth to Barron William Trump. Their son is husband Donald's fifth child. That same year she also became a U.S. citizen.
Trump began modeling at age 16, and two years later she signed on with an agency in Milan. She enrolled at the University of Ljubljana but dropped out after one year to pursue her modeling career. In her early days of modeling, Trump worked in Milan and Paris, before moving to New York in 1996. There she gained steady work, working with well-known photographers like Patrick Demarchelier and Helmut Newton, and landing covers on magazines such as Harper's Bazaar (Bulgaria), Vanity Fair (Italy), GQ (for which she posed nude in January 2000) and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Even after the marriage, she is still active in modeling.
Melania Trump was once a glamour model, so, there are no surprises as to how well she has kept her shape down the years. she stands at a height of 5’ 11” and weighs in at 62kg. Her bra size is 34D and the cup size D. Her shoe size is 10 (US) and dress size 6 (US). Her vital statistics come in at 38-26-37.
Since marrying her billionaire husband, Melania has launched her own jewelry and watch line. Trump Tower penthouse suite which she shares with Donald is adorned with 24-carat gold and marble and ceiling are all decorated with crystal chandeliers and murals. so it is obvious she has huge digits in her net worth according to CelebrityNetWorth the 49-year-old is worth an estimated £39.5million.