77 Melanija Knavs was born in Novo Mesto in the southeast of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia , part of Yugoslavia , on April 26 , 1970 . She is the daughter of Amalija ( née Ulčnik ) and Viktor Knavs , who managed car and motorcycle dealerships for a state-owned vehicle manufacturer . Her father was from the nearby town of Radeče . Her mother came from the village of Raka , and was a patternmaker at the children ' s clothing manufacturer " Jutranjka " in Sevnica .
She grew up in a modest apartment in a housing block in Sevnica , in Slovenia ' s Lower Sava Valley . She has a sister and an older half-brother , whom she reportedly has never met , from her father ' s previous relationship . Although Melania ' s family comes from a Roman Catholic background , her father , to the dismay of their relatives , wished for her to not receive the Christian sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion due to his commitment to Marxist-Leninist atheism .
When she was a teenager , the family moved to a twostory house in Sevnica , and as a high school student , she lived in a high-rise apartment in Ljubljana . Melanija attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana , and studied at the University of Ljubljana for one year before dropping out . She speaks six languages : Serbo-Croatian , English , French , Italian , German , and her native Slovene .
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