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Melania Trump was born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970, in what was then Yugoslavia and later became Slovenia; she spent her childhood in the small town of Sevnica before her family moved to Ljubljan...
Melanija Knavs—known professionally as Melania Knauss and later Melania Trump—grew up in Sevnica, then part of Yugoslavia, left university after a year to pursue modeling, and built an international f...
Multiple reputable public biographies and official U.S. government profiles consistently state that (born ) was born on April 26, 1970, in and raised in and , , and describe her parents and early scho...
Melania Trump’s country of origin before moving to the United States is , and multiple sources report she was raised in the small town of before emigrating in the mid-1990s. Some records emphasize tha...
Melania Trump’s upbringing in Sevnica, Slovenia—daughter of a car salesman father and a mother who worked in the textile industry—exposed her to design and fashion early; she attended a secondary scho...
Reporting on which agencies represented Melania Trump in Slovenia and across Europe in the 1990s is consistent but incomplete: multiple sources say she was discovered in Slovenia by photographer Stane...
Melania (born Melanija Knavs/Knauss) grew up in Sevnica, then part of communist Yugoslavia, and therefore was raised in a Communist-era social and economic environment . That environment is not the sa...
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs, April 26, 1970) rose from a childhood in Slovenia to an international modeling career, U.S. naturalization, business ventures and motherhood before becoming First L...
Melania Trump’s Sevnica upbringing is repeatedly invoked as a formative narrative that helped launch her modelling career and shape a reserved, multilingual public persona; reporting notes her move fr...
Melania Knauss began modeling as a teenager in what was then Yugoslavia and developed a professional European modeling career through the early and mid‑1990s, working primarily in Milan and Paris befo...
(born Melanija Knavs) was born in in 1970 and raised in the small town of and later ; contemporary reporting and reference biographies portray her childhood as modest — the daughter of a car salesman ...
for people born in the municipalities around and are maintained ’s central civil registers and can be requested in person at any administrative unit or electronically via the national e‑Government por...
A review of the supplied reporting finds no evidence that n archives or mainstream Slovenian newspapers have published scans or transcriptions of ’s original birth certificate or her ; major biographi...
Melania Knauss (Melanija Knavs) grew up in Sevnica and Ljubljana, Slovenia, the daughter of Viktor Knavs (a car dealer/businessman) and Amalija Knavs (a patternmaker), and began modeling in Europe at ...
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs) is consistently listed in the provided reporting as born on April 26, 1970; multiple biographical sources—including Britannica, White House archives, and numerous p...