- Melania Trump grew up in Sevnica, Slovenia, a small town of 17,611 people.
- Her father was a car salesman and her mother worked in a local textile factory.
- Sevnica’s tourism doubled when she became first lady for the first time.
Before Melania Trump became a fashion model and first lady of the United States, she was Melanija Knavs, the Slovenian daughter of a car salesman and a textile factory worker.
But Trump’s hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, has become a tourist destination as people have traveled to see where she spent her early years.
Here are some Sevnica landmarks from Trump’s childhood.
