First Lady Melania Trump in Huntington, West Virginia
Summary
First Lady Melania Trump participates in a personal impact story discussion Monday, July 8, 2019, at Cabell-Huntington Health Department in Huntington, W.Va. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
Melania Trump is a Slovenian-American fashion model and the current first lady of the United States. Melanija Knavs (Knauss) was born in Novo Mesto, and grew up in Sevnica, in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. She and Donald Trump became engaged in 2004. On January 22, 2005, they married in an Anglican service at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida. Melania is the second First Lady born outside of the United States, and she is the only First Lady to become a naturalized U.S. citizen.