\nMelania Trump is a name known world-wide. Being married to the Former President of the United States of America and business mogul Donald Trump, it doesn\u2019t come as a surprise that the public is interested in her private life. She, however, tends to stay out of the spotlight, which is also true for her son Baron and another person very close to the former First Lady, her older sister Ines Knauss.\n
Growing up, the two sisters shared a very strong bond, and today, that hasn\u2019t changed even a bit.
\nThe sisters were born in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, but grew up in the small railway town of Sevnica. Their father, Viktor, who was a car mechanic and chauffeur, and their mother, Amalija, who worked as a pattern-maker at a clothing factory, were able to provide a good life for Melania and Ines.\n
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\u201cI grew up with a beautiful family and had a wonderful childhood,\u201d Melania Trump said. \u201cMy mother and father taught us the importance of education, hard work and family.\u201d\n
Viktor and Amalija took their daughters on vacations in France, Italy, and Germany. Today, they live in the States but they still own their home in Slovenia which they visit several times a year.\n
The two sisters were always dressed impeccably as their mom spent hours designing and making clothes for them. Later on, Melania designed the clothes her mother sewed for her herself.\n
\u201cShe was very pretty,\u201d Tom\u0161i\u010d, who has run a local hospital to which Melania donated $25,000 after marrying Donald Trump, told GQ in 2016. \u201cShe was always very fancy.\u201d\n
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\u201cBy the staircase at the entrance, I saw this girl,\u201d Jerko recalled. \u201cShe was tall, slim, with long hair. I told her who I was, what I did, and why I would photograph her.\u201d\n
It was back in 1987 when young Melania decided to drop out of the University of Ljubljana and focus on modeling instead. It took her only a year to get a contract with a modeling agency in Milan.\n
Once in Milan, Melania focused on her goal of making a name for herself and went home after work instead of partying.
\n\u201cShe kept to herself, she was a loner. After a shoot or a catwalk, she went home, not out. She didn\u2019t want to waste time partying,\u201d Jerko said.\n
Melania didn\u2019t embark on this adventure by herself, her sister Ines, who also wanted a career in the world fashion, as a designer, accompanied her.\n
\u201cInes wasn\u2019t like the other girls you would meet there, who behave like queens. She was really polite and very mellow.\u201d\n
When Melania met famous Italian businessman Paolo Zampolli, who helped her get a work visa to the U.S., her sister went with her.\n One of Melania\u2019s friends, Edit Molnar, spoke of that night and explained that Donald asked Melania for her number, but she didn\u2019t give it to him because he wasn\u2019t alone. \u201cMelania said, \u2018He\u2019s here with a woman. I am absolutely not giving him my number,\u2019\u201d Molnar told New York Post. \u201cShe wouldn\u2019t even consider it. Donald did all the work.\u201d\n Melania also spoke of the night she first met Donald Trump. \u201cHe wanted my number,\u201d she told Tatler. \u201cBut he was on a date, so of course I didn\u2019t give it to him. I said, \u2018I am not giving you my number; give me yours and I will call you.\u2019 If I give him my number, I\u2019m just one of the women he calls.\u201d\n According to People, Ines was her sister\u2019s maid-of-honor at her wedding to Donald Trump. Palm Beach philanthropist Audrey Gruss met Ines at a fundraiser for the Boys\u2019 Club of New York at Mar-a-Lago in 2005. She said Ines struck her \u201cas a lovely person, and extremely creative,\u201d adding that the two sisters are extremely close.\n Ines appears to be an artist. In the past, Melania shared on the social media illustrations done by her sister.\n Speaking to The Post, Milan-based fashion designer Luisa Beccaria confirmed that the two sisters are like best friends and added that when Barron was born, Melania relied on her sister the most. \u201cMelania had all the professional help she needed at that point,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it was her sister she trusted.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who is Melania Trump\u2019s sister, Ines Knauss? Inside her close bond with secret sibling Melania Trump is a name known world-wide. Being married to the Former President of the United States of America and business mogul Donald Trump, it doesn\u2019t come as a surprise that the public is interested in her private life. She, however,\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Who is Melania Trump\u2019s sister, Ines Knauss? Inside her close bond with secret sibling","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[693],"class_list":{"0":"post-68062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/50.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
At a Kit Kat Club event during the New York Fashion Week in 1998, Zampolli brought a friend, Donald Trump. He was with a date that night, but when he saw Melania, he immediately wanted to know more about her.\n
Well, the rest is history, and as much as Melania wants to \u2018hide\u2019 from the world, we still know a thing or two about her, which can\u2019t be said about Ines.\n
\nInes is reported to be residing in a Trump-owned apartment\u2014in a building on the Upper East Side in which Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump also resided before they moved into their new home. Her apartment is just four blocks away from her sister\u2019s triplex penthouse at Trump Tower.\n
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