Melania Trump, born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970, in Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), began her journey in a world far removed from the global spotlight she would one day inhabit. Raised in the small town of Sevnica, she was the daughter of a car dealer and a patternmaker at a children's clothing factory. Melania showed an early interest in fashion, and by her teenage years, she was already modeling. Her career as a fashion...