Melania met Donald at a Fashion Week party
Are you curious about how Melania and Donald met? According to The New Yorker, Melania Trump and Donald Trump first spoke in 1998 at a New York City party for Fashion Week. She gave her phone number to Donald Trump. She declined, though, because he had come with another woman. The woman he was then wed to, Marla Maples, later divorced in 1999. Donald Trump kept going. So instead of giving him her number, she accepted his.
They became an item quite quickly. Even though they briefly split up in 2000, they quickly got back together. On the eve of the 2004 Costume Institute Gala, Donald Trump proposed to her. She later married Donald Trump at a grandiose 2005 wedding. Her first marriage and his third together. The wedding was attended by several renowned people. Billy Joel, Paul Anka, Kelly Ripa, Barbara Walters, Matt Lauer, Shaquille O'Neal, Anna Wintour, Heidi Klum, Sean Combs, and Simon Cowell were among the celebrities who attended. Melania allegedly donned a $100,000 Dior gown that took 550 hours to construct and 1,500 gems to decorate.
Barron William Trump was Melania's first child and Donald's fifth child; he was born in 2006. She also acquired U.S. citizenship that year. Melania kept up her career during this period. She created a line of caviar-based beauty care products and promoted a line of jewelry sold by the QVC corporation in addition to occasionally modeling.
