Melania Trump, 47, wife of Donald Trump, and mother-of-one to Barron Trump, 11, is a US citizen now.
However, she is not originally from the United States. Melania was born in Slovenia, a country that was once under communist rule.
Melania was born on April 2016, 1970, Novo Mesto is a city near the Krka River, close to the border with Croatia.
It was a military base in the 15th Century, and suffered the plague in 1599.
Industries in the town include a hydroelectric power plant as well as textile, automobile, and chemical-pharmaceuticals.
Melania’s parents both worked in these industries. Her father worked for a vehicle manufacturer, while her mother worked as a patternmaker.
In fact, it was her mother’s career in textiles that gave Melania her first taste in modelling.
The Daily Mail reported that Melania took part in many fashion shows in the town, with the children wearing garments made by their parents at the factory.
The winters are cold and wintery while summer is warm with an average high of 26.8 degrees Celsius.
Melania grew up in a housing block in Sevnica, with her sister Ines. Her parents came from nearby towns Radeče and Raka.
They later moved from the apartment block into a two story house, and then to a high rise in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
Melania worked as a model professionally from the age of sixteen, and signed with an agency at 18 in 1992.
She moved to New York four years later, where she met her husband Donald Trump.
Melania Trump’s family has an interesting political history, and her father was a member of the communist party.
The former-model’s father signed up to the party under the regime of former Yugoslavian communist dictator Marshal Tito.
Between 1945 and 1990, Slovenia was under the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but the country gained independence in 1991.
Many signed up to such parties at the time in a bid to improve their chances of finding work, despite not believing in the tenants of communism.
As such, Melania was not officially baptised and didn’t make holy communion – as members of the communist part are officially atheist.
However, the family did carry out the religious ceremony, in secret, Melania Trump’s Inside Story – a book written by Zalozba Ombo in February 2016, reported.
Melania Trump and Donald recently met the Israeli Prime Minister and his wife.
