Before becoming first lady, Melania trump, née Knauss, has passed a long way of formation as a model. Her modelling career she started as a teenager in his native Slovenia. Today, looking at her first pictures, it is difficult to find in the lanky and awkward girl that beautiful that she became later.
Melania was only 16 when she was noticed by the famous Slovene photographer Stein a Jerk. He was waiting for his friend when he saw a beautiful young girl. It was in January 1987.
The photographer invited her to his Studio for a screen test. The current first lady of the United States remembered Stein a Jerk at first as shy and reserved, but in front of the camera she quickly became more relaxed.
The pictures came out "very promising". It is from these pictures Melania made his first portfolio, which went to conquer the podium.
When friends of the photographer working in the fashion industry, saw the photos, they immediately went out with a girl for a relationship. In the fall of 1987 Melania graduated from a modeling school and started to shoot for fashion magazines.
At the time of Melania Knauss studied at the faculty of architecture and design, University of Ljubljana, but after the first course left the study, making the choice in favor of a modeling career.
Soon Melanie was invited to work in Milan and Paris, and only then, in 1996, she moved to new York, where there was a fateful meeting with Donald trump.
Quite possibly, the photographer then bitterly mistaken...