To Be The First Lady Of United States Of America, Mrs Melania Trump- Thing you wish to know about her.
By Jaya Khare :
1. Her Earlier Name Was MELANIJA KNAVS
Mrs Trump was born Melanija, Knavs in 1970 and raised in the small alpine town of Sevnica in Slovenia. She Germanized her name to Melania Knauss after taking modeling as profession.Her father Viktor was a car salesman, who was known for his smart and imposing bearing. Melania and her older sister Ines were brought up with the qualities of ambitious and driven . These days The first ladys parent spend much of the year with their daughter and her 10-year-old son, Barron, at Trump Tower in Manhattan.Mrs Trump also has an older half-brother, she is believed to have not met him yet.
2. She Is Reserved By Nature And Stays At Shore From Excesses.
To be The First Lady, was rare to be seen at her husbands election campaign too, is a reserved person who "never wanted to be in the spotlight", her childhood friend Mirjana Jelancic told US media. Her ex-boyfriend Peter Butoln described her as "abstemious and more wholesome than the other girls" even as a teenager to New York Times .
As a model, Mrs Trump stayed away from "the scene," and had "no history of boyfriends," the photographer Antoine Verglas as per the reports from the Washington Post.
3. She Is Rich In Vocabulary And Can Speak Five Languages.
Like many Europeans, the soft-spoken Mrs Trump is conversant in a smattering of languages besides English and her mother tongue of Slovenian: French, German, and Serbian. Despite having been in the US since decade, she speaks English with a strong accent. Her favorite phrase is "A-Z", notes the New Yorker. "I follow from A to Z," "Im from A to Z hands on," "Im involved from A to Z with every piece I design", she has said.
4. She Loved Knitting And Designs Jewelry.
She has love for fashion and professes to love design and fashion once knitted her own sweaters, gloves and leg warmers while growing up in Slovenia. These days she designs her own jewellery.
5. As A MODEL She Was More Of A Discovery.
At the age of 17 she was identified by a a photographer while waiting for a friend outside a fashion show. The photographer, Mr Stane Jerko, told US media she was a little "wooden" as a model at first but was diligent and learned very quickly.
The beauty was signed on by a modeling agency in Milan and later went on to appear on numerous magazine covers with many big names like including Harpers Bazaar and Vanity Fair. Was very much in news due to her naked appearance on a white rug for British magazine GQ.
6. She Violated Us Immigration Laws
The future US First Lady began life in America under dubious circumstances. Arriving in the US on Aug 27, 1996 on a visitor visa, she got paid for 10 modeling jobs the following month, seven weeks before she received her working visa, an investigation by the Associate Press showed.
She received her green card in 2001 and became a citizen in 2006 - a year after marrying Mr Trump.
7. She Rejected Mr Trumps Advances The First Time They Met
Mrs Trump refused to give her phone number to her future husband on their first encounter at the Kit Kat Club in New York in 1998, because he was accompanied by another woman, Norwegian cosmetics heiress Celina Midelfart.
Mr Trump pursued her and they soon began dating. They were married in 2005 and had their only child, Barron, the following year.
8. A Mum On Her Full Self.
"I dont have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and thats it. I do it myself,". "You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if its just the two of you, being quiet in the car together. She stated this to Harpers Bazaar in January
9. She Has Her Own Space Apart From Mr Trump, Am Not A Nagging Wife.
Mrs Trump revealed to People magazine the secrets to her apparent happy marriage last year."We have our own bathrooms, so thats the key," she said. Giving her husband his own space is also important, she added. "Im not that kind of wife who would say, Learn this or Learn that. Im not a nagging wife."
10. She Will Be Only The Second Foreign-Born First Lady Of The United States
The only other First Lady to be born outside of the country was Mrs Louisa Catherine Adams, the British wife of the 6th US President John Quincy Adams who was in office from 1825 to 1829.
