Melania Trump left Slovenia, her home country, to become a model in the US. She succeeded and eventually met Donald Trump, and we all know where the story took them today. Yet, things could’ve been very different. The ex-boyfriend of Melania in Slovenia has revealed some quite surprising things about the first lady.

In the 1990s, Melania left her home country of Slovenia to try to make it in America. The talented model moved to New York City, where she landed some major deals, but, as one can imagine, leaving your country behind at just a teenager must’ve been tough.

Melania had grown up in a modest home in the town of Sevnica. She found her passion for modeling very early. And when she grew up, she also found love for the first time in Jure Zorcic.

In the 1990s, they were a couple and in an interview with ABC News, Zorcic spilled some quite fascinating details on their early romance.

Zorcic shared that he and Melania “met each other like in a movie.” He was on a motorbike, and Melania was walking, and he recalled how he was “impressed by her beauty” and her style from the moment he first saw her.

“She was very nicely dressed, and her behavior was classy,” Jure said about Melania. “She was tall, had long hair across her face – I could hardly see her eyes – such style!”

Melania Trump’s ex-boyfriend says she never wanted to live in America

The two engaged in a conversation, and Jure took Melania for a coffee. Thouugh she was Slovenian, her ex-boyfriend claims she was not a typical Slovenian girl.

Additionally, he claimed that Melania Trump never wanted to live in America but wanted to remain in Europe.

She wanted to live abroad, in Italy, France, a life of fashion,” he recalled, saying that a possible future for her in the US “was very far from our minds at that time,”

Melania Trump worked in both Paris and Milan before she left for New York City. Jure Zorcic was surprised when she left.

“She told me she had an offer with a hair care company, for a campaign – that’s why she went,” he said.

In 2000, the two met again but something was different. Jure was surprised when hearing that she would rather speak to him in English than in Slovenian. He recalled asking her, “Did you forget that you are Slovenian?”

He added, “Nobody believed 20 years ago that she would live at the top of the world, on Fifth Avenue in Trump Tower – even her!”