Melania Trump

Melania Trump
Melania Trump at the QVC Red Carpet Style Party, Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles, CA on February 25, 2011
Born	Melanija Knavs April 26, 1970 (1970-04-26) (age 41) Sevnica, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Slovenia)
Nationality	Slovenia
Occupation	Model, socialite, jewelry designer
Years active	1986–present
Spouse	Donald J. Trump (2005-present)
Children	Barron Trump (b. 2006); four stepchildren from Trump's previous marriages
Website
Melania Trump Official Website

Melania Knauss-Trump (born Melanija Knavs, germanized to Melania Knauss; April 26, 1970^[1]) is a Slovenian former model and the wife of American real estate magnate Donald Trump. They married on January 22, 2005.^[2]

Career

After obtaining a degree in design and architecture^{[citation needed]} at the University of Ljubljana, she started working as a model both in Milan and Paris before settling in New York City in 1996. She was on the cover of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Ocean Drive, In Style, New York Magazine, Avenue, Allure, Vanity Fair, Self, Glamour, Elle, and appeared in the 2000 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

In February 2010, Knauss-Trump announced the launch of a jewellery collection with QVC. Knauss appeared in a television advertisement for Aflac insurance, in which she and the Aflac mascot, a duck, voiced by comedian Gilbert Gottfried, exchange personalities via a Frankenstein-like mad experiment.

Personal life

Knauss-Trump was born in the town of Sevnica in Slovenia's Lower Sava Valley (then part of Yugoslavia) in 1970. Her father Viktor Knavs was from the nearby town of Radeče, while her mother Amalija came from a village in the area surrounding Sevnica.^[3]

Relationship with Donald Trump

Knauss's relationship with Trump grew as she continued to model, and also became involved with the social set of New York. Their relationship received increasing publicity after the launch of Trump's successful business-oriented reality television show, The Apprentice.

She appeared on The Howard Stern Show with Trump. This led to a layout in British GQ magazine, including the cover shot in January 2000.

Trump and Knauss became engaged in 2004, and married on January 22, 2005 at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida, followed by a reception at Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate. Their wedding ceremony was widely covered by the media, with the fact that Knauss wore a $200,000 dress made by the house of Christian Dior often mentioned. The cake at the reception was a 50-pound orange Grand Marnier cake with a Grand Marnier butter-cream filling, covered with 3,000 roses, constructed by the chef at Mar-A-Lago.

On March 20, 2006, Knauss-Trump gave birth to a boy, whom the couple named Barron William Trump. Donald Trump made the announcement via phone on the Imus in the Morning show about 20 minutes after birth, stating that "everyone's perfect". It was Trump's fifth child.

Promoting Trump's presidential goals

When husband Donald Trump announced presidential ambitions, Melania Trump began helping. Reports in the media state: "Melania Trump is already pondering her role as a possible First Lady - all while plugging her QVC line of sparkly baubles."^[4] "Melania Trump will stand by her husband whether he decides to run for president or not."^[5] And speculation about: "Would Melania Trump Be the Hottest First Lady Ever?"^[6]

References

1. ^ "Melania Knauss Biography". Star Pulse. http://www.starpulse.com/Supermodels/Knauss,_Melania/Biography/. Retrieved 2 May 2011. 
2. ^ "Melania Knauss". Ask Men. http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/models_200/230_melania_knauss.html. Retrieved 2 May 2011. 
3. ^ http://www.celjan.si/index.php?pid=64
4. ^ Goldwert, Lindsay (April 25, 2011). "Melania Trump talks First Lady ambitions; Of Michelle Obama, 'She'd look great in my QVC jewelry'". New York Daily News. http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-04-25/entertainment/29492131_1_first-lady-michelle-obama-trump-style. Retrieved 2 May 2011. 
5. ^ "Melania Trump Talks Obama's Birth Certificate, First Lady Possibility". Huffington Post. 04/21/11. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/21/melania-trump-talks-obama_n_852154.html. Retrieved 2 May 2011. 
6. ^ "Would Melania Trump Be the Hottest First Lady Ever?". sodahead.com. April 22, 2011. http://www.sodahead.com/entertainment/would-melania-trump-be-the-hottest-first-lady-ever/question-1707527/. Retrieved 2 May 2011. 

External links

• Melania's official website
• Melania Trump at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Trump, Melania
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Date of birth	1970-04-26
Place of birth	Sevnica, Slovenia
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