Melania

 Melania Trump, /m@’la:ni@/ M@-LAH–nee@; born Melanija Knavs, [me'la:nija ‘kna'ws] Germanized as Melania Knauss (me'la;nia ‘knaUs] April 26, 1970), is a Slovene American former model and businesswoman. She relocated to New York City in 1996 after working as a model for modeling agencies in Paris and Milan and Paris. She was a part of Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management. She married Donald Trump in 2005 and they had their son Barron. She was an American naturalized citizen in the year following. Following Louisa Adams, she is the second woman in America to be naturalized. She also became the first first lady to be born in English. Knavs was raised in a small apartment in Sevnica in the Lower Sava Valley. Her father was a member of the League of Communists of Slovenia. This group advocated for a policy of state atheism. As was common however, he also was able to have his daughters secretly be baptized Catholic. Melania brought her rosary to Pope Francis in 2017 when the Trumps visited the Vatican. She asked Pope Francis to bless the rosary.