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Who is Melania Trump and why is she dominating headlines?

Ever since US President Donald Trump lost his re-election bid in the US elections 2020, his wife Melania Trump has suddenly come into the limelight. Reports have been doing the rounds that Melania is going to divorce Trump soon, after which she has been dominating the headlines in the international media. Donald Trump's former political aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has claimed that Trump and Melania's 15-year-old marriage was about to break down.

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Ever since US President Donald Trump lost his re-election bid in the US elections 2020, his wife Melania Trump has suddenly come into the limelight. Reports have been doing the rounds that Melania is going to divorce Trump soon, after which she has been dominating the headlines in the international media. Donald Trump's former political aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has claimed that Trump and Melania's 15-year-old marriage was about to break down.

Age gap

Melania is several years younger than Trump - she is 50 and Trump is 74 years old. Since 2016, when Trump won the US presidential election, everyone has known Melania as Donald Trump's wife or US First Lady, but she also has an identity of her own. A former model, Melania has appeared on the cover pages of several magazines. The most prominent among them are Harper's Bazaar and Vanity Fair. When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, Melania became emotional. With tears in her eyes, Melania said that she did not expect this victory.

Father was a car dealer

Melania was born in 1970 in Yugoslavia. She became the first US First Lady to be born out of the US after Lucia Adams, the wife of the sixth US President (1825–29), John Quincy Adams. Melania's father was a car dealer and mother Amalija Knvas used to design children's clothes.

Knows several languages

Melania is a former Slovenian model. She started her modelling career at the age of 16. Melania Trump knows several languages. She knows English, Slovenian, French, Serbian, Italian and German languages. She also has her own jewellery and skincare brands. Melania and Donald Trump first met in 1998 in New York and the two married in 2005 in Florida. Trump-Melania has a son named Baron who was born in 2006. It may be noted that Melania is Donald Trump's third wife. She received a green card in March 2001 and became a US citizen in 2006.

So much wealth

No one yet has the correct figures for the property of Melania Trump. However, according to some international websites, until a few months ago, his net worth was around $50 million. 

What remains to be seen that whether Melania is really going to leave Donald Trump or this claim is just a rumour.

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