1. SHE USED TO BE KNOWN AS MELANIJA KNAVS
Melania was born Melanija (which is also pronounced as "Melania") Knavs in 1970 and raised in the small alpine town of Sevnica in Slovenia, then a part of communist Yugoslavia. She Germanised her name to Melania Knauss after becoming a model.
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