Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs, germanized to Melania Knauss) was born on April 26, 1970 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then part of communist Yugoslavia).
[on the media bias against Donald Trump] When did we hear or read any great stories about my husband - or about me? The true stuff. The facts. The real stuff. We never read the New York Times. They are bashing, bashing, bashing. [Oct.2016]
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[defending her husband's attacks on the Clintons] They're asking for it. They started. They started from the beginning of the campaign, putting my pictures from the modeling days [into the newspapers]. That were my modeling days and I'm proud of what I did. I worked very hard. [Oct.2016]
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[about the attacks on her husband] The opposition doesn't want to talk about WikiLeaks and the Emails and Benghazi and all the rest of the stuff - they don't want to talk about it. So, they said: 'Let's do something to hurt his campaign'. [Oct.2016]
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Don't feel sorry for me. I can handle everything. [Oct.2016]
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My husband is real. He's raw. He tells it like it is. [Oct.2016]
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[on the accusations against her husband] I believe my husband. This was all organized by the opposition. Did they ever check the background of these women ? They don't have any facts. (...) That never happened. [Oct.2016]
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Changed her surname Knavs to Knauss before Trump.
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Obtained her U.S. citizenship in 2006.
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Second foreign-born First Lady after Louisa Adams, the British-born wife of 6th US President John Quincy Adams.
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In the mid 1990s, before becoming Mrs. Trump, she roomed with Swede Victoria Silvstedt in Paris when both were struggling models.
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On July 29, 2016, USA Today reported that Melania Trump's personal website was taken offline. Previously, Melania's bio-statement stated there that she received a "degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia." However, a biographer questioned the veracity of that claim by suggesting that Melania never completed her studies. At www.archive.org, the WayBack Machine has preserved a 2012 snapshot of Melania's website, where she printed the now-disputed statement.
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