Meet Melania Trump, the former nude model Now America’s new First Lady

The woman who would become the First Lady of the United States is also historic by herself. Melania Trump Donald Trump overcame...

• The woman who would become the First Lady of the United States is also historic by herself.
  

Melania Trump

Donald Trump overcame all the odds to become America’s 45th president but the history set last night did not end there; the woman who would become the First Lady of the United States is also historic by herself.
Here are a few facts about the former model that would replace Michelle Obama in the White House.

1. She was born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970 in Sevnica, Yugoslavia (present day Slovenia)

She’s standing second from right.

2. She’s 24 years younger than Donald Trump

Trump is 70 years old

3. She started her modelling career at the age of 16

A modelling career that spurned a number of eye popping covers over time

4. She changed her name to Melania when her modelling career took off

She then obtained US citizenship in 2006

5. In spite of a thick accent, she’s fluent in English and four other languages: Slovenian, French, Serbian and German

Not your regular model, Melania

6. She is Donald Trump’s third wife and they have a 10-year-old son together

Donald and Melania with their son, Barron. Photo: Shutterstock

7. She started an affair with Donald Trump in 1998

Trump with Marla Maples, whom he divorced to marry Melania.

This was while he was still married to his second wife Marla Maples. He later got a divorce and married Melania in 2005.

8. Bill and Hillary Clinton were guests at the flamboyant wedding

Not sure they can share a laugh like this now

9. She was widely criticised for plagiarising Michelle Obama’s speech at the Republican Convention

Melania’s speech on the night her husband accepted his party’s nomination was lifted from one of her predecessor’s speeches.

10. She would be the first American First Lady to have appeared nude on a magazine cover

Melania Trump on the cover of GQ

11. She has also appeared in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated and also on Max Magazine

The new FLOTUS in Max Magazine.

Apart from the British GQ spread that she shot in 2001,the new First Lady has appeared in raunchy photos on Max Magazine and Sports Illustrated.

12. As she said in a CNN interview, even she is not a fan of her husband’s tweeting like this one

13. As First Lady, she wants to emulate Jackie Kennedy

Former US First Lady, Jackie Kennedy.

14. At 5 foot 11 inches tall, she’s the same height with Michelle Obama