Melania Trump: this ex-boyfriend left overnight
Before marrying Donald Trump and becoming the First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump lived in Slovenia. There she met her former companion, Jure Zorcic, whom she left to live her modeling career.
Funny fate that of Melania Trump. Originally from Slovenia, the First Lady of the United States bears witness to an atypical life. Indeed, hard to believe that Melanija Knavs, her maiden name, would one day become one of the most famous women in the world. And yet. It seems that Melania's prophecy could have held up thanks to one element: the iron will of the former model to live an existence different from her fellows, as one of her former companions, Jure Zorcic, recounts in an interview with ABC News. A Slovenian woman far from typical.
"She wanted to live abroad, in Italy, in France, a life made of fashion," reveals her ex-boyfriend. "She was very fashionable." However, Melania's parents are far from evolving in a world of glitter. Her father runs car and motorcycle dealerships, while her mother designs designs for a children's clothing manufacturer. Above all, the model grew up in a town of 5,000 inhabitants in the former Yugoslavia. If she dreams of a stranger, the young woman remains modest about her ambitions. "I think (the United States) were not yet part of our thinking at the time," says Jure Zorcic.
We met like in a movie "
It must be said that the two young people meet in a particular context, marked by the war for independence of Slovenia, which took place in June 1991. Melania was then 21 years old. "We met like in a movie. It was a hot summer day (...). It was the start of a new political era for us, the city was empty, blocked by the army" , remembers Jure Zorcic fondly. “I was on my motorbike and she was walking down a street. As I walked past her, I stopped and thought, 'Wow, who is this girl? She's so beautiful, I have to turn around and her. to follow.'"
Very well dressed, tall, with long hair that sweeps her face ... Melania Trump stands out from the crowd. "It was a bit of a shock when I met her," Zorcic says. "She's very special, that's the truth." The enterprising young man woos Donald Trump's future wife by taking her for coffee. The couple subsequently dated for several months and spent the summer days by the Croatian seaside with a group of friends. The disillusionment of love comes soon after, when Melania suddenly leaves Slovenia.
Left to make his career in Europe, then in the United States
The young woman takes advantage of the fall of the USSR to conquer the West. She first worked as a model for several big brands in Milan and Paris, before continuing her career in New York from 1996. "She told me she had an offer with a hair care company, for a campaign - that's why she went there, ”recalls the rejected companion. If she appears on the cover of many magazines, such as Vogue, Vanity Fair or GQ, her modeling career is struggling to reach the top.
Two years after his arrival in the United States, his fate takes an unprecedented turn. She meets Donald Trump. The couple wasted no time in appearing in public and staging their private life. It is in this context that Jure Zorcic meets Melania Trump again in New York, in 2000. The man is surprised that his ex-partner speaks to him in English. "I asked him: 'have you forgotten that you are Slovenian?'", He recalls to ABC News. "She told me that she spent her time traveling between New York and Fort Lauderdale in Florida, and that she would never go back to Slovenia." Proof of this voluntary uprooting: she married Donald Trump in 2005 and obtained American nationality the following year.
"I think her marriage to Trump was fate," Jure Zorcic retrospectively. "No one thought 20 years ago that she would live on top of the world, on Fifth Avenue in the Trump Tower ... even her!" An unusual course that should make some young girls and boys dream (or not) in bloom.
