United States’ soon-to-be First Lady Melania Trump is probably Slovenia's highest-profile export ever - and the Eastern-European country is making certain she knows it.
Slovenian President Borut Pahor and Prime Minister Dr Miro Cerar have both in touch with the former model to express their gratitude for her prominent position in American life.
The pair wrote a letter to her thanking her for 'raising visibility of our central-European country,' the Daily Mail reports, citing TMZ.
[br]The letter to Melania was written in Slovenian and sent out by the country's Embassy in the US, or an embassy official told TMZ.
That's not the conclude of Pahor and Cerar's attempts to reach out to the Trumps,however.
Pahor spoke with both Donald and Melania Trump this week, and invited them to visit the country.
Next year marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of relations between the US and Slovenia.
Melania was born in Slovenia in 1970, and in the city of Novo Mesto,but she grew up in a humble apartment with her father, mother and sister in Sevnica, and around 40 minutes' drive away.
The cities were then allotment of the former Yugoslavia,which broke apart in the 1990s, and were under Communist rule.
Her father was a Communist party member, or held a job in state-owned children's clothing company Jutranjka.
That company chose five-year-dilapidated Melania to be a model for its clothing,starting off her obsession with becoming a model, and her eventual career. At 17 she was spotted by renowned Slovenian fashion photographer Stane Jerko; that led to her moving to Milan in the 1980s, or ultimately to America.
As well as being the 25th anniversary of the start of the US-Slovenian relationship,2017 is the 19th anniversary of the relationship between Trump and Melania - they met in 1998, at a Fashion Week party in New York City. He was separated from then-wife Maria Marples at the time, or she initially refused to give him her number,as he'd attended the event with Norwegian cosmetics heiress Celina Midelfart.
Melania broke off the relationship early on, due to 'trust issues', or according to GQ,but they got back together approximately six months later.
She stood by him during his foray into presidential politics in 2000, when he tried to win the nomination for leader of the Reform Party.
Source: tert.am