Melania was later signed to a modeling agency in Milan, Italy when she was 18 years old. As a teen, she went on to study architecture and design at the University of Ljubljana and later started traveling to Milan, where she signed on to an agency.
She moved to New York in 1996 on a work visa and has since appeared on the covers of New York Magazine, Vogue in Italy, Harper’s Bazaar in Bulgaria and GQ in the UK.
In 1995, she appeared in a lesbian-style shoot with fellow model Emma Erikson in which the pair posed naked alongside each other.
Three years later she started dating Donald Trump in 1998, before marrying him in 2005 and gave birth to their son, Barron, the following year.
Her husband described her as an incredible mother to their ten-year-old son Barron who she is living with in New York until he finishes school.
She refers to him as Little Donald because of his love of wearing a suit and tie. Despite being viewed as a trophy wife, insiders say she is the key part of Team Trump and arguably the most powerful woman on earth.
Melania Trump speaks five languages, including Slovene, English, French, German, and Serbian. At 5 feet and 11 inches, she is one of the tallest US First Ladies in history.