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began modeling as a teenager in and built an international portfolio in before relocating to in 1996; she worked in and , did editorial and runway work, and by the late 1990s was working in Manhattan ...
Melania Trump began modeling in Slovenia as a teenager after meeting photographer Stane Jerko and went on to work in fashion hubs across Europe and later in the United States; sources say her career i...
Melania Knauss (born Melanija Knavs) began modeling as a teenager in Slovenia after being discovered at about age 16 by photographer Stane Jerko; her first portfolio and early assignments were shot in...
Melania Trump was represented by multiple modeling agencies over her career in Europe and the United States, with contemporary reporting and agency listings naming among those associated with her at d...
began modeling in and, after placing in ’s Look of the Year contest, moved to work across such as and — where she was represented by agencies and photographed by and worked for designers and houses in...
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 Trump worked for more than a decade as a professional fashion model before marrying Donald Trump, performing standard industry duties: runway shows, editorial and commercial photo shoots, adve...
Melania Trump’s modeling career began in Slovenia and expanded to Milan, Paris and New York; reporting and biographies say she worked runway and editorial jobs and associated with major photographers ...
Notable 1990s photoshoots attributed to Melania Trump center on editorial and commercial modeling in the mid-to-late 1990s, with recurring mentions of a 1995 nude spread for a French magazine, a late-...
Melania Knauss built an international modeling résumé in the 1980s–early 2000s that included agency signings in Milan and work in Paris and New York, magazine covers (including Vanity Fair Italia and ...
Melania Trump began modeling as a teenager in Slovenia — commonly reported as being discovered around age 16 — and left formal study after about a year at university to pursue modeling abroad, buildin...
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...
Contemporaneous interviews and agency statements from the 1990s portray Melania Trump as a working fashion model who took standard commercial bookings in Europe and, later, the U.S., including editori...
Melania Trump’s earliest modeling photographs were taken in Slovenia in the late 1980s by photographer Stane Jerko, who discovered her and produced the trial shoots that became her first portfolio . A...
Before relocating to the United States in 1996, Melania Knauss (later Melania Trump) worked with several European modeling outfits: she began with photographer Stane Jerko in Slovenia, signed with a M...
Contemporaneous photographs from Slovenia exist and have been published widely: photographer Stane Jerko’s portraits of a teenage Melania (then Melanija Knavs/Melania Knauss) from the late 1980s appea...
Melania Trump moved to the United States in the mid‑ to late‑1990s and continued a European‑born modeling career that included magazine covers, ad campaigns and photographer collaborations; reporting ...
Before marrying Donald Trump in 2005, Melania Knauss worked as a professional fashion model whose early career materials included photographer Stane Jerko’s 1987 portfolio work and subsequent European...