Melania Trump was born on April 26, 1970 in Slovenia. At age 16, she began what would soon become a highly successful modeling career, appearing in many high profile ad campaigns and working with some of the best photographers in the fashion industry. In 1996, Mrs.

6 days ago - Melania and Donald moved in together at Trump Tower in 2002. She made her first appearance on Donald's game show The Apprentice in April 2004 when an episode had the contestants visit their penthouse. Donald proposed to Melania on April 26, 2004, on her birthday as they were leaving to attend ...

July 21, 2021 - Melania Trump was born in Slovenia and worked as a model in Europe before settling in New York, where she met real estate billionaire Donald Trump. Barron was born the following year after the couple married in 2005.

As a young woman, Melania studied design before pausing her studies to pursue a modeling career abroad. She became a successful fashion model, appearing in television advertisements, fashion magazines, and billboards.

2 weeks ago - At that year's party, Trump was accompanied by his then-girlfriend, Melania Knauss, with one partygoer remarking that the next year's theme could be, 'Melania for the millennium.'

April 25, 2025 - Melania Knauss was modeling at 16 before moving to New York at 26. She married Donald Trump, who is 2 years younger than her dad Viktor Knavs, in 2005

April 4, 2017 - Tadej Znidarcic—ReduxA photograph of the Melania Trump’s 8th grade primary school picture in Sevnica, Slovenia, circa 1984. Melania is sitting, fourth from the right in a black sweater. Stane Jerko—Reuters17-year-old Melania Trump (Knavs) poses for a picture for photographer Stane Jerko in Ljubljana, in March 1987.

January 20, 2017 - Melanija Knavs grew up in Sevnica, Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia), where 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.

February 25, 2016 - The pair were married in January 2005 and Trump gave birth to their son Barron in 2006. Jelancic told the AP that she was surprised at first at the news that her childhood friend had married Donald, who is 24 years her senior. She eventually realized, however, a resemblance between Donald and Melania’s father.

May 28, 2025 - While Melania Trump became a household name, she is, first and foremost, a mother and wife, and in 2017, she made the White House and Washington home for her family. In her role as First Lady from 2017 to 2021, Mrs. Trump focused on the many issues affecting children across the Nation.

3 weeks ago - First Lady Melania Trump’s official White House portrait says it all. Pictured in a black pantsuit and white collared shirt, she stands at the head of a table, as if in a boardroom ready to make a deal. And sure enough, even before she moved back into the (RIP) East Wing, she had inked a $40 million deal for a documentary about her life.

Real estate tycoon Donald Trump, his wife Melania Knauss and their baby Barron William Trump attend the 2006 US Open men's final between... ... Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump attend the 19th annual Bunny Hop hosted by the Associates Committee of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering...

August 28, 2025 - After elementary school, Melania Trump (Knavs at the time), moved to Ljubljana to attend the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana. After completing and maintaining her high school education, Melania Trump enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the University of Ljubljana, however, she dropped out after one year of studying architecture.

March 18, 2025 - Explore Melania Trump’s early life, modeling career, and how she met Donald Trump before becoming First Lady.

January 21, 2025 - She enrolled at the University ... of modeling, Melania—who stands at 5 feet, 11 inches tall—worked in Milan and Paris, before moving to New York in 1996....

November 6, 2024 - Melania was born and grew up in Sevnica, Slovenia. Melania's age at five when living under the care of her mother and Viktor and Amalija Knavs had already elapsed when her career in modelling commenced, a fact that marked when she was 16.

May 23, 2019 - "She must have realized that it would take her six to seven more years of studies before she could start making good money as an architect," Vogelnik speculate. With no time to waste, the future first lady proved she would simply let her ambitions guide her — all the way out of her home country. ... Always dressed to the nines, Melania Trump took her style inspiration from her mother, Amalija Ulčnik. According to GQ, Ulčnik fostered her daughters love of clothing early on, returning home "from business trips with Western fashion magazines" that Melania reportedly obsessed over.

April 5, 2017 - In the first months of Trump's first presidency, she remained at the couple's home in New York City so Barron could complete his schooling there. In 2018, she launched her "Be Best" campaign, meant to raise awareness of cyberbullying and drug use.

As a teenager she started modeling, joining an agency in Milan, Italy, at age 18. She enrolled at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia to study architecture but dropped out after a year to continue her modeling career.