Melania Trump is a former model, jewelry and watch designer. But most of all she is known as the wife of the 45th US President Donald Trump.
Biography
Melania Trump, nee Melania Knavs, was born on April 26, 1970 in the small Slovenian city of Novo Mesto. However, the family soon moved to Sevnitsa, where her mother Amalia Knavs worked as a fashion designer at the factory for the production of children's clothing "Jutranjka". And father Victor Knavs ran a car and motorcycle dealer center. Melania is not the only child in the family. She has a sister and half brother from her father's previous marriage.
As a child, Melania attended Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana. Then she entered the University of Ljubljana at the faculty of "architecture and design." But a year later, she dropped out and moved to Milan, where she began to participate in fashion shows.
Career
Melania Trump's modeling career began at the age of fifteen. During this period, she worked with photographer Stane Yerko. At sixteen, the beginning model was invited to participate in the filming of commercials. And when the girl was eighteen years old, she signed her first contract with a modeling agency in Milan.
Melania Trump, 2006 Photo: Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA / Wikimedia Commons
In 1992, Melania took second place in the competition "Look of the Year", which was organized by Jana magazine. And a few years later she moved to New York, where she continued to build a modeling career. She has starred for magazines such as Style Weddings, Avenue, Philadelphia Style, New York Magazine and others.
In 2000, Melania Trump appeared in a bathing suit on the cover of the American magazine Sports Illustrated, which is associated with the Irene Marie Management Group and Trump Model Management. She also collaborated with popular fashion and style publications Vogue, GQ, Harper's Bazaar and others.
In 2005, Melania Trump decided to leave the modeling business after becoming the wife of an American businessman and politician Donald Trump.
