Melania Trump was born Melanija Knavs in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) in 1970. Her father sold cars, and her mother worked in the textile industry. She attended the University of Ljubljana for one year before leaving to pursue a career in modeling. She found success, first in Slovenia and later—under the name Melania Knauss—in Milan and Paris. In 1996 she moved to the United States to continue her modeling career. She married Donald Trump in 2005.
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