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Donald Trump overcame all the odds to become America’s 45th president but the history set last night did not end there; the woman who would become the First Lady of the United States is also historic by herself.

Here are a few facts about the former model that would replace Michelle Obama in the White House.

1. She was born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970 in Sevnica, Yugoslavia (present day Slovenia)

2. She’s 24 years younger than Donald Trump

3. She started her modelling career at the age of 16

4. She changed her name to Melania when her modelling career took off

5. In spite of a thick accent, she’s fluent in English and four other languages: Slovenian, French, Serbian and German

6. She is Donald Trump’s third wife and they have a 10-year-old son together

7. She started an affair with Donald Trump in 1998

This was while he was still married to his second wife Marla Maples. He later got a divorce and married Melania in 2005.

8. Bill and Hillary Clinton were guests at the flamboyant wedding

9. She was widely criticised for plagiarising Michelle Obama’s speech at the Republican Convention

Melania’s speech on the night her husband accepted his party’s nomination was lifted from one of her predecessor’s speeches.

10. She would be the first American First Lady to have appeared nude on a magazine cover

11. She has also appeared in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated and also on Max Magazine

Apart from the British GQ spread that she shot in 2001,the new First Lady has appeared in raunchy photos on Max Magazine and Sports Illustrated.

12. As she said in a CNN interview, even she is not a fan of her husband’s tweeting like this one

13. As First Lady, she wants to emulate Jackie Kennedy

14. At 5 foot 11 inches tall, she’s the same height with Michelle Obama