Background

Ethnicity: Ivanka's father has German and Scottish ancestry and her mother has Czech and Austrian ancestry.

Ivana Marie Trump was born on October 30, 1981, in Manhattan, New York City. She is the second child of Czech-American model Ivana (née Zelníčková) and Donald Trump, who in 2017 became the 45th President of the United States. For most of her life, she has been nicknamed "Ivanka," a diminutive form of Ivana. Trump's parents divorced in 1992, when she was ten years old. She has two brothers, Donald Jr. and Eric, a half-sister, Tiffany, and a half-brother, Barron.

Trump is a fourth-generation businessperson who followed in the footsteps of her great-grandmother Elizabeth Christ Trump (who founded the company) and grandfather Fred Trump. Trump has a close relationship with her father, who has publicly expressed his admiration for her on several occasions. Ivanka has likewise praised her father, complimenting his leadership skills and saying he empowers other people. She was a former stepdaughter of Marla Maples and current stepdaughter of Melania Trump.

Education

Ivanka Trump attended Chapin School in Manhattan, preparatory school until the age of 15.

After outgrowing the Chapin School, Ivanka’s parents sent her off to Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut. She wasn’t happy about it. In interviews, she’s characterized its boarding-school lifestyle as “prison-like.”

Unhappy at Choate but promising her parents she'd keep up her grades, Ivanka decided to try her hand at modeling at age 14. She soon signed on with Elite Model Management and graced her first cover with Seventeen magazine in 1997. She would walk the runways for Thierry Mugler, Versace, and Marc Bouwer, be featured in Elle magazine, and co-host the Miss Teen USA 1997 pageant all by the age of 16.

Following in her brother Eric’s footsteps, Ivanka started out her college career breaking family tradition and attending Georgetown University. However, after just two years there, Ivanka transferred to the University of Pennsylvania to complete her undergraduate degree.

Like nearly all of the Trump family, Ivanka would later earn her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. While there, she majored in finance through the world-renowned Wharton Business School. She would go on to graduate from her program cum laude.

Career

Ivanka found the world of modeling to be catty and ruthless and steered her ambitions toward the family business: real estate. After graduating from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, her father's alma mater, Ivanka spent two years working at a real estate development firm outside of her father's organization.

After learning the ropes and feeling she could prove her worth, Ivanka joined the Trump Organization and has risen through the ranks ever since. She is currently executive VP of acquisitions and development, working on high profile buildings and resorts. Collaborating with her two older brothers, Donald Jr. and Eric, she also co-founded the Trump Hotel Collection, a successful luxury hotel management company. From 2006 to 2015, she solidified her celebrity status, appearing alongside her father and brothers as a co-judge on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice.

Capitalizing on her famous last name and wanting to be a voice for the professional millennial woman, Ivanka published the New York Times best seller, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life in 2009. She also launched a fashion/lifestyle brand, the Ivanka Trump Collection and its digital counterpart, IvankaTrump.com.

Trump separated herself from the business in 2017 to focus on aiding her father's administration, and the following July, she announced that she was shutting down the brand. "After 17 months in Washington, I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington, so making this decision now is the only fair outcome for my team and partners," she said.

In October 2016 Trump's support of her father, however, began affecting her own business after a leaked video of him making derogatory remarks about women was revealed. Despite its sexually offensive content, Trump stood by her father, but this time, women felt she had gone too far. Soon, a boycott of Trump's fashion line was launched, using the hashtag "#GrabYourWallet," a play on words from one of the vulgar remarks the billionaire mogul made in the video: “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab them by the p- - -y.”

But this wasn't the first time Trump's fashion line came under fire. Earlier in the year, the footwear brand Aquazzura sued Trump for allegedly copying almost every detail of one of its sandal designs. Trump also had to recall 20,000 scarves for their above-average burn risk to consumers. Ivanka continued to champion her father on the campaign trail. On November 8, 2016, he was elected the 45th president of the United States in a stunning victory that was considered a resounding rejection of establishment politics by blue-collar and working class Americans.

Following the election, Ivanka, her siblings Donald Jr. and Eric, and husband Jared Kushner, were soon named as members of her father’s presidential transition team. After her father's presidential inauguration, Ivanka and Kushner, who was named a senior White House advisor, reportedly purchased a home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where the Obama family also moved after President Obama left office.

In February 2017, the department store Nordstrom announced that it would be dropping Ivanka's brand due to poor sales. In response, President Trump tweeted in defense of his daughter on his personal and official White House Twitter accounts: “My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly. She is a great person — always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!”

In March 2017, Ivanka, a close advisor of President Trump, said she would become an unpaid employee of the White House. "I have heard the concerns some have with my advising the President in my personal capacity while voluntarily complying with all ethics rules, and I will instead serve as an unpaid employee in the White House Office, subject to all of the same rules as other federal employees,"she said in a statement. "Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role."

In November 2017, shortly before her father's scheduled arrival as part of an Asian tour, Ivanka Trump was a guest speaker at a government-sponsored conference on women’s empowerment in Tokyo, Japan. Pictures taken during her turn at the podium showed a sparse audience, a surprise considering the extensive media coverage leading up to her arrival, though a director at Japan's Foreign Ministry said that people were kept out during her speech for "security reasons."

Later that month, Trump traveled to Hyderabad, India, to take part in the annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). As part of that year's theme of women entrepreneurship, she was scheduled to participate in panels and a gala dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Trump's involvement in the GES came amid rumors of a rift with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, as well as questions about the workplace conditions endured by her company's female laborers in Asian countries.

In December, Ivanka was named in a lawsuit filed by a Washington attorney over claims that she and her husband had failed to divulge a full list of assets and investment vehicles in their public financial disclosure forms. A White House spokesman dismissed the lawsuit as "frivolous."

Ivanka traveled to South Korea to attend the closing ceremony of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang. She was scheduled to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, but not with members of the North Korean delegation.

In June, as the Trump administration was enveloped in a growing furor over the process of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, Ivanka reportedly urged her father to reconsider the controversial "zero tolerance" policy. After the president signed an executive order to keep families together, she fired off a tweet that applauded him for "taking critical action ending family separation at our border," adding, "Congress must now act + find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values."

Ivanka expanded on the subject during an Axios Newsmakers conversation in August, calling the news of family separations "a low point" of her time with the administration, while noting that there was no easy solution to the complexities of illegal immigration. "I am the daughter of an immigrant, my mother grew up in communist Czech Republic, but we are a country of laws," she said. "We have to be very careful about incentivizing behavior that puts children at risk of being trafficked, at risk of entering this country with coyotes or making an incredibly dangerous journey alone." She currently lives with her family in Washington D.C.

Achievements

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  Ivanka Trump is an American businesswoman, television personality, fashion designer, author and a former executive vice-president of the Trump Organization. She is more famously known as the first daughter of President Donald Trump and is an official senior advisor to the president. Before her foray into politics, she was best known for her fashion and beauty line that promoted the Trump conglomerate. After her father’s election as the President of the United States, she officially stepped down from her role at the Trump Organization and worked advisor to the President in an unofficial capacity. Two months later, she was formally appointed Advisor to the President. Currently, she is seen along with her father at important meetings across the world where Ivanka mostly speaks about policy changes in areas related to women and women entrepreneurship. Ever since Donald Trump assumed presidency, Ivanka has been alongside him in many official visits to countries around the world. Apart from politics, she is actively involved in philanthropy and supports various charities. She has also published a couple of self-help books.
  
  In 2012, The Wharton Club of New York, the official alumni association of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for the New York metropolitan area, gave Trump the Joseph Wharton Award for Young Leadership, one of their four annual awards for Wharton alumni.
  
  In 2017, Ivanka Trump became one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Works

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  • The Trump Card 1st (first) edition 2009
  • The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life 2010
  • Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success 2017

Religion

Trump was raised as a Presbyterian Christian. She converted to Orthodox Judaism in July 2009, after studying with Elie Weinstock from the Modern Orthodox Ramaz School. Trump took the Hebrew name "Yael". She describes her conversion as an "amazing and beautiful journey" which her father supported "from day one", adding that he has "tremendous respect" for the Jewish religion. She attests to keeping a kosher diet and observing the Jewish Sabbath, saying in 2015: "We're pretty observant... It's been such a great life decision for me... I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity. From Friday to Saturday we don't do anything but hang out with one another. We don't make phone calls." When living in New York City, Trump used to send her daughter to kindergarten at a Jewish school. She said: "It's such a blessing for me to have her come home every night and share with me the Hebrew that she's learned and sing songs for me around the holidays."

Trump and her husband made a pilgrimage to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a popular prayer site, shortly before her father's election victory. On May 22, 2017, Trump and Kushner also traveled with her father on the first official visit of Israel by the Trump administration, where her father made the first visit to the Western Wall by a sitting U.S. president. Ivanka also visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in western Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem during the trip.

Politics

Ivanka has supported both the Republican and Democratic Parties at different times. In 2007 she supported Hillary Clinton's presidential run and is a friend of Chelsea Clinton. In 2012 she endorsed Mitt Romney for president. A year later, she and her husband hosted a fundraiser for Democratic New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.

In the 2016 presidential election cycle, Ivanka played an integral role in helping her father's White House ambitions, actively defended his divisive remarks, to much controversy. “As a citizen, I love what he’s doing. As a daughter, it’s obviously more complicated,” she remarked in an interview published on Politico.

On July 21, 2016, Ivanka introduced her father at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, before he accepted the party's presidential nomination. She said: "Like many of my fellow Millennials, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat. ... Sometimes it's a tough choice,” she said. “That is not the case this time. This is the moment and Donald Trump is the person to make America great again.” She also emphasized that her father would champion women and equal pay. "My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it," she said. "He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job. Period." She has also been criticized for being a proponent of her father's national maternity leave policy while not offering one at her own company.

For the start of her father's second year in office, Ivanka seemed intent on following through on a goal to produce maternity-leave legislation. In February 2018, Politico reported that the first daughter and Trump's former campaign rival Marco Rubio were collaborating on the issue, discussing ideas that included drawing from Social Security benefits and raising payroll taxes as a means for funding paid leave.

Views

Trump says she is an advocate for women and Israel.

Trump has ties to a number of Jewish charities, including Chai Lifeline, a charity which helps to look after children with cancer. Other charities she supports include United Hatzalah, to which her father, Donald Trump, has made six-figure donations in the past.

After she was appointed Advisor to the President, Trump donated the unpaid half of the advance payments for her book Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success to the National Urban League and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. She further said that any royalties exceeding the advances will also be given to charity.

Quotations: "We're pretty observant... It's been such a great life decision for me... I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity. From Friday to Saturday we don't do anything but hang out with one another. We don't make phone calls."

"As a citizen, I love what he’s doing. As a daughter, it’s obviously more complicated."

"There's a special place in hell for people who prey on children. I've yet to see a valid explanation and I have no reason to doubt the victims' accounts."

"I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my (Choate) school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill."

"Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there's no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart!"

Membership

In December 2012, members of 100 Women in Hedge Funds elected Ivanka Trump to their board.

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  100 Women in Hedge Funds

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Personality

Ivanka wakes up at 5:30 a.m. every morning, according to My Morning Routine. Most nights she’s not in bed until 12:30 or 1 a.m. However, studies support people getting at least seven hours of sleep to function optimally.

The first daughter checks her phone first thing each morning. Ivanka also responds to emails for at least three hours every night as she’s “desperately trying to get my inbox to zero before I fall asleep,” she said.

Donald’s daughter used to party with NYC heiresses, as well as a slew of celebrities, including Hugh Jackman, Natalie Portman, Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, Anna Wintour, and Emmy Rossum. Many attended Ivanka’s nuptials.

These days, however, her celeb friends have gone quiet, with most of them supporting the Democratic party through donations, appearances, and social media. The only star left standing? Paris Hilton. The socialite still supports her childhood friend, saying, “I think she is a brilliant woman. She knows exactly what she’s doing.”

Ivanka Trump smokes. She is very close friends with Chelsea Clinton, daughter of her father’s rival Hillary Clinton. She doesn’t like to travel.

Physical Characteristics: Height - 5 ft 11 in or 180 cm

Weight - 64 kg or 141 pounds

Hair Color - Blonde

Eye Color - Light Brown

Distinctive Features - Great Height

Measurements - 38-26-36 in or 96.5-66-91.5 cm

Dress Size - 6 (US) or 38 (EU)

Shoe Size - 9.5 (US) or 40 (EU)

In an interview on The Dr. Oz Show, Trump revealed that she had suffered from postpartum depression after each of her pregnancies.

Many outlets suggest Ivanka looks too perfect. The BeautyEditor notes a teenage Ivanka’s “model-esque eyebrows” and “cute” nose with a little bump on the bridge. She believes Ivanka’s face changes in 2005 when her nose suddenly looks much narrower sans bump.

When Ivanka attended the 2007 Golden Globes, her chest was notably larger, “obviously fake,” and “too large for her frame.” Villett concluded: “I say a boob job and at least one rhinoplasty for sure. I’m guessing she has started to dabble in Botox, too.” Since her father’s campaign Ivanka caused many women to emulate her through plastic surgery.

Although Ivanka loves accessories, you may not have noticed one she often wears: colored contacts. Refinery29 reports Ivanka’s eyes change color, “and not in a way that could be passed off as a trick of the light or camera flash. In various appearances, she’s swapped her natural brown eyes for what appears to be deep hazel or bright green contacts — sometimes even in the same day.”

Quotes from others about the person

• "There's nothing skin-deep about Ivanka. And I think that's a real tribute to her because certainly anyone as gorgeous as she is could have probably gone quite far being skin-deep." - Chelsea Clinton (February 25, 2015). "Ivanka Trump Knows What It Means to Be a Modern Millennial". Vogue.
  
  "If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." - Donald Trump, "The View" (6 March 2006).
  
  "[Ivanka]'s actually always been very voluptuous. She's tall, she's almost 6 feet tall and she's been, she's an amazing beauty." - Donald Trump, The Howard Stern Show, October 2006.

Interests

• Cooking, writing, buying clothing accessories
  
  Favorite actor - Christian Bale
  
  Favorite television series - Real Housewives
  
  Favorite tourist destination - Torres del Paine National Park, Chile’s Patagonia region
  
  Favorite architect - Joseph Dirand
  
  Favorite restaurant - Sixteen, Chicago (on the 16th floor of Trump Tower)

• Politicians

  Donald Trump

• Writers

  She always is reading something, and her favorite books are: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, by Adam Grant, Edge of Eternity, the final book in The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and On The Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman.

• Artists

  Her favorite artist is Christopher Wool.

• Sport & Clubs

  She was forced to take fencing in high school.
  
  The first daughter enjoys workouts like yoga and SoulCycle. CNN reported because both Ivanka and Michelle Obama love indoor cycling workouts, the two major studios Washingtonians attend have been “abuzz” with excitement. Both seem to prefer SoulCycle to its competitor, Flywheel, though Ivanka has also attended Flywheel classes.

• Athletes

  Ivanka likes golf.

• Music & Bands

  An avid runner, Ivanka Trump shared her affection for Spotify in an interview with My Morning Routine, saying she listens to music from the streaming service while she hits the pavement. Along with a team of staffers, she completed her first half marathon in 2015, and her #TeamIvanka Spotify playlists are posted on her website. Songs include Beyoncé’s “7/11” and “Call Me” by Blondie.

Connections

During college, Trump was in a nearly four-year relationship with Greg Hersch, an investment banker at Salomon Brothers, Bear Stearns, and UBS. From 2001 to 2005, she dated James "Bingo" Gubelmann.

In 2005, Ivanka started dating real estate developer Jared Kushner, whom she met through mutual friends. The couple broke up in 2008 due to the objections of Kushner's parents, but they got back together and married in a Jewish ceremony on October 25, 2009. They have three children, a daughter and two sons, born in 2011 and later.

Father:

Donald Trump

(born June 14, 1946)

He is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Mother:

Ivana Trump

(born February 20, 1949)

She is a former model and businesswoman, who was the first wife of Donald Trump. They married in 1977 and divorced in 1992. They have three children together, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump.

Spouse:

Jared Kushner

(born January 10, 1981)

He is an American investor, real-estate developer, and newspaper publisher who is currently senior advisor to his father-in-law, Donald Trump, the President of the United States.

Brother:

Donald John Trump Jr.

(born December 31, 1977)

He is an American businessman and former reality television personality. He is the eldest child of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his first wife, Ivana.

Brother:

Eric Trump

(born January 6, 1984)

He is an American businessman, philanthropist, and former reality television personality. He is the third child and second son of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and Ivana Trump. Alongside his older brother Donald Trump Jr., he serves as a trustee of The Trump Organization.

half-sister:

Tiffany Trump

(born October 13, 1993)

She is an American socialite, model, and Georgetown Law student in Washington, D.C. and the daughter of Donald Trump and Marla Maples.

Half-brother:

Barron Trump

(born March 20, 2006, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States)

Grandfather:

Frederick Trump

(14 March 1869 – 30 May 1918)

He was a German-American businessman and the patriarch of the Trump family.

Daughter:

Arabella Rose Kushner

(born 2011)

Son:

Theodore James Kushner

(born 2016)

Son:

Joseph Frederick Kushner

(born 2013)

Great-grandmother:

Elizabeth Christ Trump

(October 10, 1880 – June 6, 1966)

She was a German-born American businesswoman and is considered the matriarch of the Trump family.

Friend:

Chelsea Clinton

(born February 27, 1980)

She is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. She was a special correspondent for NBC News from 2011 to 2014 and now works with the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. Since 2011, she has taken on a prominent role at the foundation and has a seat on its board.

References

• Raising Trump
• Ivanka Trump: A Revealing Portrait of Her Life, Family, and Career (Donald Trump, Trump Family, Donald Trump books, Trump revealed, politics 2017, election)
• Ivanka Trump: A Biography
• Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
• Ivanka Trump: A Brand of Her Own
• America’s First Daughter: Ivanka Trump Biography Before and After Election
• Forbes Life Magazine (Spring 2013) Ivanka Trump Grows Up
• Ivanka Trump
• Ivanka Trump: Businesswoman and Political Activist
• Ivanka Trump: Entrepreneur and First Daughter (Leading Women)
• Ivanka Trump: Her best insights and Quotes (with images): (Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, biographies, successful women, successful woman, rich women)
• Ivanka Trump 2024: Reasons why Ivanka will be the first Lady President - Kindle edition by Roopendra Bhargaw, Rachel Neubauer. Politics & Social Sciences