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5 Things you Never Knew about Mrs Trump

Plus, the most hilarious social media reactions from her speech gaffe
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She hit the headlines this week with her cribbed Republican Convention speech, but who is Melania Trump?

Here are five things you may not know about the would-be First Lady, plus a clip of the speech in question – and the internet’s best social media reactions. 

She grew up under communist rule

Melania was born and raised during the years of the Communist Dictator Tito who ruled the former Yugoslavia. Her parents now split their time between what is now Slovenia and New York. 

She speaks five languages

Melania could tell you how much she loves the Donald in Slovenian, English, French, Serbian and German. Tres romantic. 

She would be the first First Lady to have ever appeared nude for a magazine

In 2000, the then Melania Knauss stripped off to pose in the nude for GQ. One of the shots featured her onboard Trump’s jet, handcuffed to a briefcase. “We pushed the envelope a little,” editor Dylan Jones is reported to have said of the shoot. “We were surprised she said yes.” 

She wishes Trump would act more “presidential”

Last week Trump told the crowd of supporters that both Melania and his eldest daughter, Ivanka think he needs to change her image. “My wife and my daughter said to me, ‘Act presidential! Act presidential!'” he said. 

She played hard to get when she met Donald

When the pair were first introduced at a fashion Week party in 1998 the businessman was dating another woman. When he asked Melania for her number, she turned the tables and instead asked him for his digits. (She wanted to see if he would give her his personal or business numbers reportedly.) Instead, he gave her all of his numbers. She finally called him after returning from a shoot in the Caribbean a little later. (Fun fact: Donald would propose six years later at the 2004 on the night of the Costume Institute Gala).

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