Secrets about the new First Lady of the United States

(Baonghean.vn) - From January 20, 2017, America will have a new First Lady: Mrs. Melania Trump, but very little information about her has been known in recent times. Join Nghe An Newspaper to learn about the mysteries of America's First Lady.

1. Is the third wife of new President Donald Trump

Mrs. Melania Trump is currently the first lady of the new US President. Photo: Vnexpress

Former model Melania Knauss began dating Donald Trump in 1998. She married him in 2005 and the couple had a son, Barron, the following year.

Before that, in the 1990s, Mr. Trump married for the second time and lived together for several years with Ms. Marla Maples, a TV star and also a "beauty queen". They had a daughter together named Tiffany Trump.

Mr. Trump and Ms. Maples dated while Mr. Trump was still living with his first wife, Czechoslovakian Ivana Zelnickova. He married his first wife in 1977 and they had three children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Trump Jr.

2. Once refused to give Mr. Trump his phone number

Melania and Donald Trump first met at a fashion party in 1998. At the time, Mr. Trump was separated from his second wife.

When they met at a party in New York in 1998, real estate mogul Donald Trump asked for Melania's phone number, but the young woman refused. At that time, Melania was 28 years old and attended the party at the invitation of Italian businessman Paolo Zampolli - a man who helped her build a modeling career in the US.

At that time, Mr. Trump was famous as a playboy. He himself attended the party with another woman, but he still found a way to chat with the beautiful model. Melania knew the billionaire's reputation, so when asked for his phone number, she refused and asked for his personal information in return.

"If I gave him my number, I would just be one of the women he called," Melania later told GQ magazine. She waited to see if he would give her his personal or work number to better understand his intentions. "Which number he gives you says a lot about him," she said. And it seemed that Trump was serious at the time, so he gave her "all his numbers."

3. Fluent in 5 languages

Melania Trump was born in 1970, started modeling at the age of 16, and speaks 5 languages.

Melania's natural linguistic ability, which allows her to speak five languages ​​fluently: Slovenian, English, French, Serbian and German, will probably help her a lot when she enters the White House. However, some people say that because of her regional accent, Melania rarely speaks to crowds.

Born in Slovenia, Melania became the second foreign-born First Lady of the United States, after Louisa Adams, a British woman who was the wife of the 6th President John Quincy (1825-1829).

4. "Bridge" for Russia - US relations

The small country of Slovenia, with a population of about 2 million, is confident it can act as a bridge between the US and Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, although rarely traveling to Western countries, has visited Slovenia twice and Russia and Slovenia have very good relations.

Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar called Melania to congratulate her after Trump's election, and the two spoke in their native language. Melania then passed the phone to her husband, who then spoke directly to Trump.

5. Designers compete to dress Melania

Melania Trump used to be a model.

According to the Daily Mail, many famous fashion designers, including Zac Posen, B Michael America, Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, have expressed interest in designing outfits for Mrs. Melania on her husband's inauguration day.

6. The First Lady has nude photos

Three years before meeting Mr Trump, model Melania posed nude in a French men’s monthly magazine. The photos later made their way to the New York Post.

The photographer Jarl Ale de Basseville - who took the pictures - said they were "beautiful and not obscene". Meanwhile, Mr. Donald Trump commented: "In Europe, pictures like this are very fashionable and popular".

7. Has a half-brother

Since childhood, Melania was carefully educated in a wealthy family.

While preparing material to write about Mrs. Melania, journalist Julia Iofffe of GQ discovered shocking information: Mrs. Melania's father, Mr. Victor Knavs, has a son named Denis Cigelnjak.

After a court battle, Mr. Knaves was forced to pay child support. However, he has never contacted or acknowledged the existence of this child. Currently, at the age of 50, Mr. Cigelnjak still lives with his family in Slovenia.

8. Hillary Clinton attended their wedding.

Billionaire Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, stand and chat with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clinton at their wedding - Photo: Getty Images

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife were among the 350 guests attending the wedding of billionaire Donald Trump and model Melania in Palm Beach, Florida.

According to GQ, at the wedding, the bride wore a Dior wedding dress worth $100,000 with 1,500 crystals.

9. Has the lowest approval rating since Hillary

According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, Melania is the wife of a President-elect with the lowest approval rating since Hillary Clinton.

The person with the highest approval rating is Mrs. Barbara Bush, wife of President George HW Bush (Bush Sr.). Mrs. Michelle Obama also had a fairly high approval rating at a similar time to Mrs. Melania in 2012, when Mr. Obama was elected to a second term.

10. More than 100,000 New Yorkers want to "get rid" of Melania

Mrs. Melania and her 10-year-old son Brandon Trump.

After Mr. Trump was elected, Mrs. Melania announced that she wanted to stay in New York to let her son Barron study throughout.

That means New Yorkers could lose about $1 million a day in security for Melania and her son. A petition has been launched to force her to leave the city, and so far it has garnered more than 135,000 signatures.

Kim Ngoc

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