New York: With her husband Donald Trump triumphing in the US presidential polls; Melania Trump was set to become the first foreign-born First Lady of the US in almost two centuries.
46-year-old Melania will be the first foreign-born First Lady since Louisa Adams – wife of John Quincy Adams, the sixth US president (1825-29). Louisa was born in London to an English mother and an American father who served as US consul, according to the White House. Till date, Louisa was the only First Lady to be born outside the United States.
Melania, a Slovenian former model, was born in 1970 in communist Yugoslavia. She is the daughter of Viktor Knavs, a car and motorcycle dealer and a member of the Slovenian Communist Party, and Amalija Knvas, according to media reports.
