The US presidential election on November 8, 2016, which shocked not only America but the whole world, focused attention on the new head of America, his wife and children. His biography causes a lot of gossip, as a result of which more and more people want to study the facts from the businessman’s personal life.
Everyone is interested in the details of Trump’s family life, because now he is the main person of his country, its official representative, which means that attention to his person is completely justified.
Who is Donald Trump?
Donald Trump was born June 14, 1946. In 2016, he celebrated his 70th anniversary. Today he owns a large construction, restaurant, jewelry and mortgage business, and besides this, the world-famous Miss Universe beauty contest. According to the popular Forbes magazine, Donald Trump's net worth is 4 billion.
Being a real careerist and workaholic, he always gets what he wants, this makes him a successful person. Trump's friends and all those who know him well describe this man as responsible and purposeful, ready to go straight to his goal.
Donald Trump's wives
Friends of Donald Trump and his family speak only positively about them. In total, the billionaire had 3 wives. Currently, the wife of the new president is the famous fashion model Melania Trump.
Melania was born on April 26, 1970 in Slovenia, where she spent her childhood. She tried herself at the age of 16 in the modeling business, then received an education and became a designer.
Donald proposed to his beloved back in 2005. It was then that they had a wedding, which was attended by a huge number of famous guests, including the Clinton family. In 2017, his wife turned 47 years old, and the 24-year difference does not at all interfere with family happiness. At the moment, the main values in Melania’s life, according to her, are family, children and her adored husband.
As for the billionaire's previous wives, they were Ivana Zelnichkova and Marla Maples. Ivana, Trump's first wife, was born on February 20, 1949 in Europe (Czechoslovakia). She married Donald in 1977 at the age of 28. This marriage lasted 15 long years - until 1992, and two boys and one girl were born.
As soon as his first marriage broke up, Donald in 1993 chose 29-year-old actress Marla Maples as his wife, with whom they lived for 6 years. They had a daughter together named Tiffany.
Trump considers the main reason for the separation from his first two wives to be the fact that they were strong personalities who competed with him and his business.
Children of a billionaire
The businessman has three children from his first marriage, a daughter from his second, and a son from his third. All of his older children hold leadership positions in the Trump Organization.
The billionaire's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who was born on December 31, 1977, holds the vice-presidential position in his father's company. His wife is Vanessa Haydon, a famous model and designer.
Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter, born October 30, 1981, received a degree from the University of Pennsylvania, as did her brother Donald. She not only develops her modeling business, but also develops designs for jewelry. Together with her husband, Jared Kushner, who owns a construction business, she has three children.
Another executive at Donald's company is his son Eric Trump, who was born on January 6, 1984. He graduated from Georgetown University. Today he owns his own wine factory and is a well-known philanthropist.
Donald and Marla's joint daughter, Tiffany, born in 1993, turned 23 on October 13, 2016. She is studying at the University of Pennsylvania and plans to continue her singing career in the future.
On March 20, 2006, Donald’s youngest son, Barron Trump, was born, who is the only common child of the billionaire with his current wife Melania.
The 45th American president not only has many children, but also already has 8 grandchildren: 5 from Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Vanessa, 3 from his eldest daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared.
The most talked about couple today are Donald and Melania Trump. However, today we will not talk about the President of the United States, but about his wife, the first lady of the country, Melania, and specifically about how she looked in her youth.
There is quite a lot of interest in this person, because in her biography there are many scandalous facts that have recently begun to surface and be discussed by the media.
Young Melania at one of her photo shoots
Melania Trump in her youth:
Photo of young and beautiful Melania
Melania's sweet face
Photo of Melania Trump in jeans and a T-shirt
This is what the real first lady of the country looks like in her youth
Melania in a light summer dress
Biography of Melanie Trump
Now Melania Trump is a confident woman who can afford absolutely everything she wants. However, this was not always the case. Melania Knaus was born on April 26, 1970 in Slovenia. Melania's mother worked with fabrics, and her father was engaged in the resale of used cars. The girl was born and raised in a poor family and far from luxurious conditions.
Melania grew up to be a tall, slender and polite girl. However, no one in her city knew that she desperately dreamed of becoming a famous model. At school she was a diligent and organized student. At the age of 16, after graduating from school, the girl immediately went to Ljubljana. There she managed to enroll in a fairly prestigious university for a design course.
It was in that city that a meeting took place that would later radically change her life. Walking down the street, Melania met photographer Stane Erko. In her youth, Melania Trump was very shy and unsure of herself. However, the tall and blue-eyed girl immediately interested the photographer.
Melania's photo shoot for fashion magazines
Having barely completed her first year, the girl dropped out of school and devoted herself entirely to her modeling career. She moved to Milan, and after that she worked in Paris for a long time. Already at that young age, Melania Knaus (Trump) had plastic surgery. So, she enlarged her breasts, corrected her nose and pumped up her lips.
Photos of young Melania were published on the covers of famous glossy publications (Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair). In addition, she was also lucky enough to appear as an actress, starring in the film “Zoolander.”
Photo of Melania on the beach
Personal life of Melania Trump
Melania quite often attended various parties in New York. At one of them, she had the chance to meet one of the most influential and richest people in the world - Donald Trump. It is noteworthy that at that time the billionaire was not alone, but with a companion, but this did not stop him from approaching Melania and asking for a phone number. It is worth noting that then she refused him. Trump himself did not think of giving up, and used all his capabilities, as well as his charm, to advance the model’s career. Melania appreciated such pressure from the man, and soon a whirlwind romance broke out between them.
Donald Trump's wife Melania claims that she did not resort to the services of plastic surgeons. However, not everyone believes her words, because a number of photos from different years divide Melania Trump’s appearance into “before” and “after” plastic surgery. The changes in the face and shape of the eyes are clearly striking, and it is also surprising that over the years the former model has practically no wrinkles. If we talk about the parameters of the possible future first lady of the country, Melania Trump is 180 cm tall and weighs approximately 64 kg.
This is what Melania Trump looks like now
Today Melania Trump is 46 years old, but she is in perfect shape.
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Way to success
The future billionaire was born on June 14, 1946 into a wealthy family that lived in the Queens borough of New York. Donald's mother was an emigrant from a Scottish village, and his father, Frederick Trump, was the son of German immigrants, who from a young age already owned his own construction company.
At the age of 13, Donald's parents sent him to the New York Military Academy. Trump achieved great success at the academy: by the time he graduated in 1964, he had become a brilliant athlete and leader among his students. After this, Donald entered Fordham University, but soon transferred to the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1968. After graduating from university, Donald began working for his father's company; in 1975, he became its president and changed the company's name to the Trump Organization.
From this began Trump’s irreversible path to colossal success, his empire grew, his business areas expanded, and his income multiplied.
The interests of the empire extend to a variety of areas - construction, mortgages, restaurant business, fashion and jewelry, food and drinking water, furniture. The seasoned businessman managed to escape bankruptcy twice and retain his wealth.
Forbes estimates Donald Trump's net worth at $4.5 billion. He ranks 113th in the ranking of the richest people in the United States; in the ranking of the richest people on the planet, Trump is in 324th place.
The main rule that Donald Trump always follows is to do and control everything yourself and do not stop there.
“My life is the life of a winner,” says the tycoon.
Personal life
Donald has always had a weakness for women and has repeatedly gotten involved in Don Juan scandals, which created many problems for him during the election race. The affairs of a successful businessman ended in marriage several times. He married his first wife, Czechoslovakian model Ivana Zelnichkova, in 1977. That same year, Trump’s first-born Donald Jr. was born; four years later, the businessman became the father of Ivanka Jr., and in 1984, his second son Eric. Donald and Ivanka Trump's marriage ended in 1992.
Actress Marla Maples, with whom Donald began dating back in 1989, played a significant role in Trump’s divorce from his first wife. And immediately after the official breakup with Ivana, he proposed to the actress. She gave the billionaire a daughter, Tiffany, but the marriage did not last long - they divorced in 1999.
Tiffany grew up with her mother in California, but her father took an active part in her upbringing.
For the next few years, Donald remained an eligible bachelor until he was charmed by Eastern European fashion model Melania Knauss. A native of Slovenia in the past shone on the pages of glossy magazines in a very frank manner. At the beginning of 2005, Donald and 34-year-old Melania made their relationship official. Their wedding, with a budget of $45 million, was included in the list of the most expensive wedding ceremonies. A year later, their common son, Barron William Trump, was born.
Trump clan
The large Trump family has repeatedly demonstrated special cohesion and commitment to family values. According to experts, this played on the sympathy of American voters and influenced the election results.
Trump has turned his last name, which translates to “trump card,” into a successful brand. Despite the active work of almost all family members for the benefit of the Trump empire, three of them attract special attention from the press: Malania, Ivanka and Barron.
Melania Trump
© photo: Sputnik / Kevin Downes
The First Lady of the United States, 46-year-old Melania Trump, has been successfully engaged in modeling since the age of 16, appearing on the covers of magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, In Style, etc.
In Slovenia, where she is from, she received a higher education as a designer, and in 1996 she emigrated to the USA and lived in New York. Currently, as the wife of a billionaire, Melania is actively involved in charity work.
The former model's participation in Donald Trump's election campaign was not without scandals - her speech at the Republican Party Convention was considered plagiarized from the speech of Michelle Obama, Melania's predecessor.
And footage of sad US First Lady Melania Trump at her husband’s inauguration spread across the Internet and gave rise to a corresponding meme.
Ivanka Trump
© photo: Sputnik / Stringer
The one person Donald Trump is really proud of and never misses an opportunity to declare it publicly is his daughter from his first marriage, Ivanka. It was she who became Trump's main adviser during the fight for the presidency.
A beautiful fashion model, economist, designer, writer, loving wife and mother of three children - her extraordinary abilities, spectacular appearance and sonorous surname helped Ivanka achieve success in all these areas.
After meeting her future husband, media mogul Jared Kusher, she converted to Judaism, observing all the traditions accepted in Jewish families.
At the convention of the Republican Party, which Trump represented in the elections, Ivanka called on her father to support women's rights: “As the mother of three small children, I know how difficult it is to work while raising them. And I also know that in this regard I am luckier than others. American "Families need help. Policies that enable women with children to succeed should not be a novelty; they should be the norm."
Barron Trump
© photo: Sputnik / Alexey Agaryshev
Barron Trump is the only child from Donald Trump's current marriage to Melania. He is known to play golf with his father and is fluent in Slovenian, his mother’s native language.
His childhood was no different from that of other children of billionaires, until Donald decided to enter politics. They tried to keep the boy away from journalists, although during the election campaign and after his election Barron had to briefly appear on camera several times.
The boy became a victim of ridicule because of his unusual behavior at the inauguration of the US President. According to many Internet users, the 10-year-old boy could not concentrate, smiled inappropriately and refused to high-five his mother. For this, he was called a freak, a vampire and compared to Joffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones.
Other users came to Barron's defense. Among them was Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Trump's main rival in the election, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea, whose father (Bill Clinton) became president when she was 12 years old, wrote that Barron, like all children, has the right to be a child.
July 27, 2015, 10:57 pmDonald Trump, born on June 14, 1946, was not what you would call a calm and quiet child. His difficult character and disobedience forced his parents to send the 13-year-old boy to the New York Military Academy to prevent further disciplinary problems. However, there he managed to do more - to strengthen his character, which was very useful to Donald in the future.
Donald in his youth
In many ways, he looked up to his father, Fred Trump, who was his main mentor and helped him in some matters when Donald was already studying at Fordham University. By that time, he already clearly understood his future and firmly decided to continue the work of his father, who was a construction magnate. Already in his student years, everyone around him noted his unbridled enthusiasm and desire to work.
Donald took his first steps in the construction business thanks to his father's participation in the project. Together, with funds allocated by the state, they bought a residential complex that was not sold due to the bankruptcy of a construction company, and earned $ 6 million from it after the sale. The first investments he made on his own brought him a good income and showed his success at the beginning of his career. However, if Donald’s father preferred to work with socially significant objects and receive government assistance, then he himself wanted to enlist the support of the richest clients.
Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan
After becoming closely acquainted with the elite, he was able to engage in business matters in his own interests and conclude lucrative contracts. The project of the Commodore Hotel, which was purchased by Donald in 1974 and converted into a hotel by the famous Hyatt company, brought first fame to the 28-year-old developer. The next project immortalized Donald's name in its title - the young businessman erected a 68-story Trump Tower on one of the streets of New York. Donald always wanted to make his name known and chose a truly interesting way to achieve this goal. In the 1980s, he reaped the benefits of his first spectacular successes in construction.
Each subsequent project of Donald brought him millions; he could already be called a tycoon, since Trump’s fortune grew at an unprecedented pace.
However, everything could not remain cloudless for such a long time - in 1990 he almost went bankrupt due to huge debt. His company owes almost 10 billion dollars, and he himself owes 900 million. But the ability to cope with any difficulties and amazing hardening helped him get out of the current situation by 1993. In 2001, New Yorkers remembered him again, but thanks to new buildings - according to his design, the 90-story Trump World Tower appeared in the city.
Trump's holdings also include the General Motors concern and the famous Miss America and Miss Universe contests. He shared his experiences in his many books, as well as on the reality show The Apprentice, in which contestants competed for a job at his company.
The first wife was the Czechoslovakian supermodel Ivana Zelnichkova.
The couple had three children: Donald, Eric and Ivanka.
After the divorce, Ivana married twice more and got divorced both times.
With her last husband, businessman Rossano Rubiconi
Donald Junior with his father
With wife Vanessa, the couple has five children
Ivanka is the most active of the three and even maintains her own blog on Instagram.
Married to businessman Joseph Kushner. Before her marriage, Ivanka adopted her husband’s religion - Judaism and even received a new name Jael.
Married to Lara Yunaska since 2014
Wedding dance of newlyweds
At the height of Trump's business crisis, their relationship also began to fall apart, they divorced in 1992.
In 1993, he married actress Marla Maples. But their marriage did not last long - in 1999 it was dissolved. The couple has a daughter, Tiffany.
Marla with daughter Tiffany
In 2005, Donald had a third wife, Melania Knauss, a former model from Slovenia, 24 years younger than him. In this marriage, the couple had a son, Barron. , who became Trump's fifth child.
Melania Trump
Melania Trump, born Melania Knavs (Slovenian: Melanija Knavs), changed her first and last name to Melania Knauss in 1996. Born on April 26, 1970 in Sevnitsa (formerly SFRY). Slovenian fashion model, watch and jewelry designer. The wife of American billionaire and politician Donald Trump.
Melania Knavs was born in 1970 in Sevnica - Posavje region, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now Slovenia.
By nationality - Slovenian.
Father - Victor Knavs - comes from the city of Radeche. He was engaged in the resale of used cars.
Mother - Amalia - from a village in the vicinity of Sevnica (on the outskirts of Sevnica Castle), worked in a textile factory.
Melania was born and raised in an eight-story house, standing among constantly smoking factory chimneys, in an environment far from luxury. The family did not live well.
Residents of the town of Sevnitsa remembered Melania as a tall, skinny, modest and polite girl who never revealed her desire to become a famous model.
The director of the school where the future star studied speaks of her as “an excellent student, very organized, disciplined, with very decent manners. We never heard her swear or say anything bad to anyone.”
Melania Trump as a child (second from right)
At the age of 16, she went to Ljubljana, where she entered the university to major in architecture and design. And there there was a meeting that radically changed her life - in the capital of Slovenia, she accidentally met on the street with photographer Stane Jerko. The tall (5 feet 11 inches, i.e. 178 centimeters), blue-eyed girl interested the photographer.
“I still remember how tall and beautiful she was, what her figure and hair were like. She didn’t have a smile on her face because she was terribly shy, but I invited her to come to the studio,” Yerko said in an interview Western tabloids, showing youthful black and white photographs of Melania Trump.
Soon (immediately after her first year), Melania dropped out of university and devoted herself entirely to her modeling career, moving to Milan. Then she worked in Paris.
Melania underwent several plastic surgeries, in particular, she enlarged her breasts, corrected the shape of her nose, and pumped up her lips.
In 1996, she changed her name to something more sonorous to Western ears - Melania Knauss - and settled in New York.
She had to gain fame by filming in candid photo shoots. In particular, in 1996 she was photographed naked by photographer Ale de Bosseville. Some of the photographs then appeared in 1996 in the January issue of the French men's magazine Max (which ceased publication in 2006).
Her photos were published on their covers by such publications as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Ocean Drive, In Style, New York Magazine, Avenue, Allure, Vanity Fair, Self, Glamour, Elle, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
She also starred in the 2001 film Zoolander.
After her husband's victory in the presidential election, she did not move to Washington for a long time. Only.
Melania Trump's height: 178 centimeters.
Personal life of Melania Trump:
Melania Trump's speech was the centerpiece of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 18, 2016, intended to counter critics of Trump's controversial remarks about immigrants and Muslims.
"Donald intends to represent the interests of all people, not just some," Melania said. She said her "husband will remain focused on one thing: America is a beautiful country that he loves very much."
She received applause from the audience, but later American journalists noticed that part of the speech almost completely copied Michelle Obama’s party speech when Barack Obama ran for president in 2008. For example, Trump’s wife echoed Michelle Obama’s words about parenting: “From a young age, my parents instilled in me the following values: that you have to work hard to achieve what you want in life, that you keep your word, do what you say, and keep your promises.” "that you need to treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily lives."
Melania Trump plagiarized Michelle Obama
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Melania Trump's illness
Melania has long-standing kidney problems.
In May 2018, she underwent major surgery -. The surgery took place at Walter Reed National Medical Center. Renal embolization is a blockage of the vessels supplying blood to the kidneys (a medical procedure to suppress inoperable malignant tumors).
Beauty secrets from Melania Trump:
“I am deeply convinced that a woman’s appearance depends entirely on what is going on in her soul, on the emotions that a woman experiences, and the state of her health. The secrets are simple: I eat well, exercise regularly and relax. And I don’t allow myself to be lazy. Even if I feel like I'm not in the mood to exercise, I still go and do at least a couple of simple exercises. And I immediately want more! This is generally the law of fitness: it is guaranteed to lift my spirits. I always feel better after working out. I become more peaceful, or something. The main thing is to overpower yourself at the very beginning...
I love cardio exercises, Pilates, tennis... In general, I like any activity. I feel with every cell how beneficial sport affects the body and makes it healthier. This is a nice load...
Of course, I watch my diet, but not fanatically. I'm not afraid of carbohydrates, and I eat fried food sometimes. And salty. And I also really love ice cream! But I don’t overeat and try to eat a balanced diet.”
