Happy Birthday to America’s First Lady Melania Trump

Apr 26, 2025 Kriti Keshari

On April 26, 2025, Melania Trump celebrates her 55th birthday as the First Lady of the United States, spending her special day with husband Donald Trump aboard Air Force One

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President Donald Trump didn’t get her a gift this year but planned a special in-flight dinner as they traveled to Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral

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Melania Trump was born on April 26 1970 in Novo Mesto Yugoslavia now part of Slovenia her birth name was Melanija Knavs

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She grew up in Sevnica where her father was a car salesman and her mother worked in the textile industry she studied for one year at the University of Ljubljana

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After leaving college she pursued a modeling career gaining fame in Slovenia and then in Milan and Paris in 1996 she moved to New York through a modeling agency

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She met Donald Trump at a fashion party in New York in 1998 he was divorcing Marla Maples at the time their friendship grew into a long relationship

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They married in 2005 at Trump’s Palm Beach estate Hillary Clinton attended the wedding in 2006 Melania gave birth to their son Barron and became a US citizen

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Melania and Donald’s relationship began with love and continued through marriage she balanced modeling and business before becoming First Lady during both of Trump’s terms

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