We’re used to seeing Ivanka Trump on hand at presidential events with her dad, Donald Trump, 73. As an advisor to the president, her role focuses mainly on women and families with her official bio on the White House website revealing: “She focuses on the education and economic empowerment of women and their families as well as job creation and economic growth through workforce development, skills training and entrepreneurship.” Last year, the so-called “First Daughter” and her husband Jared Kushner made a whopping £135m from real estate holdings, stocks, and a book. But outside of work, what does Ivanka do? And does she have any children?
Despite her ultra-packed schedule, the first daughter and her husband still manage to raise their three children – Arabella, seven, Joseph, five, and three-year-old Theodore.
The couple, who have been married since 2009, like to prioritise their weeks for work, and use the weekend for quality family time for their brood.
Speaking to People Magazine, Ivanka revealed her and Jared “work really hard during the week and we really prioritise weekends for just being sort of reconnecting as a family. It’s very seldom that we’ll have a commitment on a Saturday or a Sunday.”
While there’s no denying Jared and Ivanka lead pretty busy lives, the mum-of-three ensures they eat as a family.
She recently admitted that: “Starting the day together as a family and chatting over breakfast before we all head off in different directions” is the most important part of her morning.
But like the rest of her life, which runs by a strict schedule, Ivanka dedicates specific hours to her children.
In her book, Women Who Work she reveals the time spent with each of her children.
Each day, she plays cars with Joseph for 20 minutes, she schedules in “dates” to the library and reads two books per day to her daughter Arabella, and she gives Theodore two to three of his bottles and puts him to bed each night.
Ivanka has a very close relationship with her own mother Ivana – whom she was named after.
In her book, she writes: “It was my mother, unapologetically feminine in a male industry, who first embodied and defined for me what it meant to be a multidimensional woman—a woman who works at all aspects of her life.”
Her own mother-daughter relationship seems to have shaped the way she raises her own daughter, who she makes extra time for.
From the age of two, Ivanka would set aside quality time for her and her mini-me, gushing to People Magazine: “She is my most important lunch meeting of the week.”
Nevertheless, order is essential in Ivanka’s household, with the 37-year insisting on her children going to bed at a decent hour.
“The most important time for me is really between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., when I can get home,” Ivanka told Harper’s Bazaar.
It was recently reported that Jared’s father Charles Kushner ‘planned’ for him to marry Ivanka.
According to investigative journalist Vicky Ward, Charles cooked up a plan for Jared to date someone “prominent.”
In her book, Ms Ward wrote: “It soon became widely repeated that Charles wanted to implement a grand rehabilitation plan suggested to him by the guru of New York real estate public relations, Howard Rubenstein.
“It was audacious, but brilliant. First, buy a trophy asset in Manhattan and gift his centre of operations from New Jersey to New York.
“Second, buy a newspaper or publication, ostensibly owned by Jared.
“Third, have Jared date someone prominent.”