reporter: dpee spite her successful modeling career melania knauss never craved the spotlight outside of that. melania could have been happy retiring from the fashion world and raising a family and keeping a home and never appearing in the press. reporter: after a brief breakup she and donald trump got back together, and from that point on, there was no escaping the public eye. melania! trump how much would you say their relationship raised her profile? oh, i think very few people would have known much at all about then melania knauss but for donald trump. she was not a person who would be on page 6 of the new york post prior to this relationship. she would never have been on howard stern. this is just not her world. reporter: suddenly she was christening a cruise ship, appearing in zoolander and