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Melania Trump is a Slovene-born American former fashion model and the current First Lady of the United States.She is the wife of the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump.Melanija Knavs was born in Novo Mesto, and grew up in Sevnica, in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. She worked as a fashion model through agencies in Milan and Paris, later moving to New York City in 1996. Her modeling career was associated with Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management.In 2001, Knavs became a permanent resident of the United States. She married Donald Trump in 2005 and obtained U.S. citizenship in 2006. She is the second First Lady born outside the United States, the first naturalized U.S. citizen.