With her husband’s victory in the 2024 US presidential elections, Melania Trump has once again returned to the center of media attention. As first lady of the United States of America, she kept a step back so as not to steal the President’s thunder. Throughout his life, however, he always wanted the spotlight on himself. Starting from Slovenia, she has in fact conquered the world of fashion, becoming one of the most sought-after models of her generation.
A few weeks from the inauguration of the White House scheduled for January 20, 2025the time has come to retrace its entire history biographyfrom the covers of glossy magazines to meeting with Donald Trump.
The early years of Melania Trump
Melania Trump nasce Melanija Knavs a A new city in Slovenia, but then part of Yugoslavia, the April 26, 1970 as a father Viktorowner of a car dealership, and mother Amalija Ulčnikmaker of paper patterns for the creation of tailored suits.
After a peaceful childhood spent in his hometown, as a teenager he moved with his family to a modest condominium in the center of Sevnica. The humble origins of the future US first lady soon convinced her to seek your fortune elsewhere and, at just sixteen years old, Melania started her own modeling career getting small gigs.
Two years later, however, she was noticed by an important company fashion agency in Milan who, struck by her charm in front of the camera, offers her a contract that will take her to the most important catwalks in the world in a short time.
The modeling career and the meeting with Donald Trump
While she is still busy studying design and architecture at theUniversity of Ljubljanaa degree course that he will never complete, Melania Trump begins to establish itself as one of the most requested models of his generation. All the biggest fashion houses rely on her Milano e di Paris and, once having achieved enormous success in the Old Continent, the girl decides to settle in New York in 1996.
In the Big Apple, Melania has the opportunity to collaborate with masters of fashion photography such as Helmut Newton, Mario Testino e Patrick Demarchelier. Their shots are chosen for dozens of covers of the most important magazines in the sector, transforming her into an icon of charm and seduction.
It was precisely in that period that the meeting destined to change her life also took place. Having recently arrived in New York, the then twenty-six year old met the real estate entrepreneur Donald Trump who immediately offers her a contract for his modeling agency, the Trump Model Management. In a few months, the acquaintance turns into a passionate love story which becomes public knowledge in 1999, thanks to an interview given to the radio program The Howard Stern Show.
After almost six years of relationship, the couple decides to get married on January 22, 2005 alla The Episcopal Church di Palm Beach, in Floridainviting prominent figures such as Heidi Klum, Shaquille O’Neal, Simon Cowell e Hillary Clinton together with her husband Bill.
Melania Trump after the wedding
The great media attention aroused by the wedding further pushed the career of Melania Trumpwhich is starting to appear more and more often also in TV as presenter or protagonist of various commercials.
The success also convinced her to start an entrepreneurial adventure, initially founding the watch and jewelery brand Melania Timepieces & Jewelrysold on the QVC television channel. Subsequently he also dedicated himself to the production of cosmetic productshowever without obtaining a great response due to some distribution problems.
Even in subsequent years, Donald e Melania Trump they continue to give the image of a close-knit and complicit couple, participating in social events and receptions in New York. Their photos bounce around in all the gossip newspapers, increasing the fame of both and facilitating the difficult electoral campaign that will lead the entrepreneur to become President of the United States of America on January 20, 2017.
Melania Trump, the US elections and the role of first lady
At first candidacy of Donald Trump to the US presidential elections arrives in 2015at the end of the double mandate of Barack Obama. The final vote count allows Melania to become the new first lady of the countryinheriting the role that, in the previous eight years, had been held by Michelle Obama.
Interviewed by numerous local newspapers, Melania Trump She immediately declared that she wanted to keep one step behind her husband, limiting herself to supporting him during his long journey to the White House. The former model and entrepreneur kept her word for the next four years, appearing alongside the new President without ever drawing attention to herself, except for her flawless looks shown off at every appearance.
Melania Trump will continue to play the same support and shoulder role also in the 2020 elections, which ended with the victory of Joe Bidenand the very recent ones 2024 electionswhich again saw the husband victorious against Kamala Harris.
On Monday, January 20, 2025, both will return to the White House for a second term. In the meantime, however, those who wish to delve deeper into his figure can read on Melania Trump – Biographywritten by Kate Bennett.
Melania Trump – Biography
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