First Lady of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)

Black-and-white portrait of Melania Trump, a middle-aged white woman with long dark hair, wearing a black suit.
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Melania Trump (left) with President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott on July 11, 2025
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Melania Knauss Trump (born Melanija Knavs; April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian and American former model and the third wife of President Donald Trump. She has served as First Lady of the … Wikipedia
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First Lady of the United States Current
Assumed role
January 20, 2025
President Donald Trump
Preceded by Jill Biden
In role
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
Factsheet
First Lady of the United States Current
Assumed role
January 20, 2025
President Donald Trump
Preceded by Jill Biden
In role
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
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Wikipedia
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Melania Trump - Wikipedia
4 days ago - She changed the spelling of her name to Melania Knauss and traveled to Paris and Milan to seek modeling work before meeting Paolo Zampolli; Zampolli hired her and sponsored her immigration to the United States in 1996. She worked as a model in Manhattan, where Zampolli introduced her to Donald Trump in 1998.
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HOLA!
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Melania Trump’s Pre-White House era: a look back at her iconic 90s and Y2K styles
July 13, 2023 - Melania and Donald Trump together before a Marc Jacobs fashion show, New York, New York, 1998.
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Reddit
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r/popculturechat on Reddit: Melania Trump’s modeling pictures from 1987
November 29, 2023 - In the 1990s, Trump told a 12-year-old girl, “You’re the sexiest woman in this room. You have those Paulina Porizkova lips” ... Trump and John Casablancas (founder of Elite models and known pedophile rapist) in the 80s. Trump judged at his teen pageants aka searched for his victims. ... /u/goatcoat explains why Melania ...
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White House Historical Association
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Melania Trump - White House Historical Association
She became a successful fashion model, appearing in television advertisements, fashion magazines, and billboards. She came to the United States during the 1990s and continued her modeling career. On January 22, 2005, she married businessman ...
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BBC
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Melania Trump: The unusual, traditional First Lady - BBC News
August 26, 2020 - In 1998, Donald Trump, already fabulously wealthy and charismatic but possessed of a still ordinary-looking head of hair, was probably used to getting a phone number when he asked. But when the property mogul tried it on that year with a young model, at a party in New York, he couldn't quite close the deal. "I am not giving you my number," countered 28-year-old Melania Knavs.
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NBC News
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Melania Trump isn't a liberal punchline. How a model became a despot's wife.
Jordan fills in new details about what Melania really did during the years between leaving Slovenia in the early 1990s and turning up on Trump’s arm in public circa 1998.
Published   June 22, 2020
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Slate
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Melania Trump would’ve been priority deportation in '90s under Trump administration rules.
February 23, 2017 - There is also a waiver process by which Trump/Knauss could have formally asked the U.S. government to let her off the hook for earlier misrepresentations, but her immigration file isn’t public so we don’t know if she availed herself of it.) ... David added that the likelihood of getting caught red-handed doing something like what Melania did—then or now—is fairly low.
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Shortform
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Melania Trump's Background: Her Life Before Donald Trump - Shortform Books
November 11, 2024 - Melania Trump talks about her background in her memoir. Learn about her life before she became one of the most recognized women in the world.
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IMDb
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Melania Trump - Photos - IMDb
Melania Trump. Producer: Melania. Melania Knauss was born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia and raised in Sevnica, Slovenia to Amalija Knavs, a patternmaker & Viktor Knavs, a car dealer. She attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana, the capital ...
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The Guardian
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Understanding Melania Trump: 'Everyone knows her – but nobody does' | Donald Trump | The Guardian
June 20, 2020 - Melania met Trump in Manhattan in 1998. What did she see in him? It is tempting to recall the British comedy character Mrs Merton’s 1995 question to the magician’s wife Debbie McGee: “So, what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?” · But Jordan observes: “Donald Trump was a different person in the 1990s...
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CBS News
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Former modeling agent reveals details about Melania Trump's visa - CBS News
August 5, 2016 - Trump's former modeling agent says she obtained a work visa before she modeled professionally in the U.S. in the mid-1990s
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GQ
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How Donald Trump Asked Out His Wife in 1998 | GQ
January 7, 2016 - Melania was 28, and Donald was Donald: a father of four, 24 years her senior, and recently separated from his second wife, Marla Maples. (He was previously married to Ivana Trump; they divorced in 1990.) "He wanted my number, but he was with ...
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Tatler
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‘Gold digger’, ‘bimbo’, ‘trapped in a loveless marriage’…as President Trump’s state visit begins, Tatler asks, have we got Melania Trump all wrong? | Tatler
September 16, 2025 - It was the era of cocaine, drugs and clubs, and you had to watch out for your models.’ Melania, though, had a reputation for being serious and focused. Being a model meant something different then, adds Marie. ‘We didn’t have the Instagram connection, where everything is follower count and public.’ Models in the 1990s were much more private and amassed ‘mystique’. The would-be president Trump and his model girlfriend, Melania, at a party, January 2004Getty Images
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IMDb
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Melania Trump - Biography - IMDb
Donald Trump Jr. ... She is the first First Lady of the United States who is a naturalized US citizen. She is also the second foreign-born First Lady, after Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president (1825-29), who was born to an US consul in London, England. Obtained her U.S. citizenship in 2006. On July 29, 2016, USA Today reported that Melania Trump's personal website was taken offline.
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Biography
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Melania Trump Returns to the Spotlight as the First Lady
January 21, 2025 - Born and raised in present-day Slovenia, Melania started out as a model and eventually graced the covers of several international magazines. She and Donald met after she moved to New York in the 1990s....