Melania Trump

Some Lesser Known Facts About Melania Trump

• Does Melania Trump smoke?: Not Known

• Does Melania Trump drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Her father, Viktor Knavs, was a car and motorcycle dealer and was a member of the Slovenian Communist Party in Yugoslavia (now Slovenia).

• She grew up in a concrete housing bloc in a modest apartment in Sevnica, Slovenia.

• She started her modeling career at age 16 and posed for Slovenian photographer Stane Jerko at age 17.

• At the age of 18, Melania signed with a modeling agency in Milan, Italy.

• In the 1992 Jana Magazine “Look of the Year Contest,” held in Ljubljana, she was named the runner-up.

• She can speak in French, German, Italian, English, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

• She appeared on the covers of Ocean Drive, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Magazine, Allure, Avenue, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Vogue.

• She has been associated with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

• She was awarded the title of “Goodwill Ambassador” by the American Red Cross.

• She moved to New York in 1996.

• She first met Donald Trump in September 1998 at a Fashion Week party in New York City.

• Her marriage with Donald Trump took place on 22 January 2005, at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida.

• She gave birth to a baby boy, Barron William Trump, in 2006. Melania suggested his middle name while Donald suggested his first name.

• On December 12, 2018, Melania made history by flying in a V-22 Osprey aircraft and onto the deck of an aircraft carrier; as it was the first time a first lady had flown in an Osprey.

• In January 2025, she launched the $MELANIA cryptocurrency, diverting investments from Donald Trump’s $TRUMP and causing a 50 per cent loss in its value.