17 facts you need to know about the new first lady of USA Melania Trump

The wife of the new US president, Melania Trump, breaks the established stereotypes. She was born in a small country, worked as a model and acted nude for men's magazines, conquered the heart of a sophisticated billionaire and now she became the first lady. A dizzying takeoff!

Melania Trump is an outstanding personality. She was born in an ordinary family and did not even dream of a dizzying career. However, fate gave her two chances, which she skillfully took advantage of: the first - a meeting with photographer Stane Erko, the second - an acquaintance with billionaire Donald Trump. These and other amazing facts from the life of the first lady of the USA read in this article.

  1. Melania Trump (in the nee Knaves) by nationality - Slovene.

She was born in 1970 in the city of Sevnica of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. By the way, Donald Trump's first wife, Ivanna Trump, is a Czech. Apparently, the new US president is not indifferent to women of Slavic origin.

  • She grew up in a simple family.
  • Melania Trump with her parents

    Her father was a member of the Communist Party and sold used cars. My mother worked at a textile factory. The family lived in a multi-apartment eight-story house, next to the plant.

  • In her youth, Melania was an obedient and correct girl.
  • Melania in the children's photo in the front row in a yellow suit.

    The principal of the school, in which she studied, told about her:

    "Melania was an excellent student, very organized, disciplined, with decent manners."

    Melania entered the University of Ljubljana at the Faculty of Design and Architecture, but a year later she left him for a model career.

  • Her modeling career began with a casual encounter with a photographer
  • Melania Trump at age 17

    Photographer Stanie Erko saw a nice 16-year-old girl on one of the streets of Ljubljana. He remembers:

    "... She was tall and beautiful ... She did not smile, because she was very shy, but I still invited her to the studio."

    Melania managed to become a fairly successful model. She did a lot for fashion magazines. Moved to Milan, then to Paris, and since 1996 settled in New York.

  • She was filming nude.
  • In the network, you can easily find her candid shots. Trump to this fact of her biography is calm. First, all the photos were taken before they met, and secondly, he believes that it's fashionable to be naked in Europe.

  • She gave Trump a turn from the gate.
  • The 28-year-old model and the 52-year-old billionaire met at a party in New York, where a married Trump came accompanied by a companion (not his wife). This did not stop him immediately get carried away by the long-legged beauty Melanie and ask her for a phone, in which he was refused. Trump had several months to pursue an impregnable model.

  • She speaks five languages.
  • Melania speaks Slovenian, Serbian, English, French and German. By the way, her son Barron William Trump is fluent in Slovenian.

  • The wedding with Melania cost Trump $ 1 million.
  • The event was attended by 350 guests, including Bill and Hilary Clinton, Anna Wintour, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Heidi Klum. The wedding cake reached 15 meters in height and was decorated with 3 thousand confectionery roses.

  • Her wedding dress from Dior cost 200 thousand dollars and weighed 20 kilograms.
  • The model that demonstrated this dress in a fashion show, could not stand its weight and fell. With Melania, such incidents did not happen. True, she could not get into the wedding car by herself, she was assisted by 5 assistants.

  • American Vogue put Melanie's photo in the wedding dress on the cover.
  • And inside there was an interview "How to marry a billionaire."

  • She is a stepmother for four children.
  • Being married to Trump, Melania is a stepmother for four of his children from the first two marriages and "grandmother" of eight grandchildren. At the same time she is older than her elder stepson for only 7 years.

  • The only son of Melania and Trump was born in 2006.
  • According to the mother, he looks like her and his father, but in character - spitting Donald Trump. He likes to play golf, wear tight suits. Periodically, the boy fires his governesses, however, after a while returns them.

  • She is the successor to Carla Bruni.
  • Opinion polls indicate that Melania will become the sexiest first lady in the world. Earlier this title was awarded to Carla Bruni.

  • Melania is the second-ever wife of the US president, who was born and raised in another country.
  • The first was the wife of Quincy Adams, the sixth US president, Louise. However, Melanie's husband is going to tighten the rules of immigration in the US, and Melania, despite the fact that she herself is an immigrant, supports him in this.

  • Melania is a business woman.
  • She has a business to produce jewelry, watches and cosmetics. However, she repeatedly stressed that her family always comes first.

  • Melania says she never fell under the knife of plastic surgeons.
  • She does not accept plastic surgery and beauty injections. However, experts do not believe it: they believe that the luxurious breast of Melania is the result of the surgeon's work. In addition, at 46 years she does not have any wrinkles, which leads to certain thoughts.

  • She leads an active lifestyle and is engaged in fitness.
  • He especially likes cardio, pilates and tennis. But on strict diets does not sit. Do not deny yourself a salty and fried, and its greatest weakness is ice cream.