Ivana Marie Trump was born on October 30, 1981. “Ivanka” is actually a nickname for the name Ivana and is typically used solely in a person’s youth. As she explained on Twitter in 2010, it’s similar to how the name Robert may be changed to Bobby when the person is younger.
She attended a boarding school in Connecticut for high school, which she compared to “prison.”
Ivanka Trump transferred to Choate Rosemary Hall, an elite boarding school in Connecticut, after her parents decided she wasn’t focused enough on school amid her high-society life and modeling opportunities in New York City.
“I was all of a sudden in the prison of boarding school life, and all my friends in New York were having fun,” she said in a 2007 interview, according to the Express.
However, Ivanka Trump was able to leave the boarding school campus to pursue her modeling career while still a teenager. She ended up modeling for major fashion designers like Versace and Thierry Mugler.
She started modeling when she was 14 years old
Ivanka Trump signed with Elite Model Management and even appeared on the cover of Seventeen in 1997 when she was in high school.
At Choate, she was allowed to have a car on campus so she could get to her modeling gigs, which was a luxury no other student had, Refinery29 reported. She also had a cell phone so she could call her famous dad — while teenagers did have cell phones in the late ’90s, they weren’t nearly as commonplace as they are now.
She converted to Judaism before marrying Jared Kushner in 2009.
Ivanka Trump met Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, at a networking lunch arranged by one of her business partners. Trump and Kushner were both 25 years old at the time.
“They very innocently set us up thinking that our only interest in one another would be transactional,” Ivanka told Vogue in 2015. “Whenever we see them we’re like, ‘The best deal we ever made!'”
However, the couple split in 2008 because of their religious differences — Trump’s family is Presbyterian. They got back together a few months later. By 2009, Trump had converted to Orthodox Judaism and she and Kushner were engaged.
She and Kushner keep a kosher diet and observe the Sabbath.
Ivanka Trump described her diet to Vogue in 2015, saying she stays away from raw fish and meat.
“I always shied away from it being a public conversation because it’s such a personal thing,” she said of her conversion to Judaism. “We’re pretty observant, more than some, less than others. I just feel like it’s such an intimate thing for us.”
“It’s been such a great life decision for me,” she continued. “I am very modern, but I’m also a very traditional person, and I think that’s an interesting juxtaposition in how I was raised as well. I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity.”
She also said that their family observes the Sabbath.
“From Friday to Saturday we don’t do anything but hang out with one another,” she said. “We don’t make phone calls.”
Ivanka Trump has three children, and she gets up at 5 a.m. to be ready for when they wake up.
She and Kushner have three children together: daughter Arabella Rose (born July 2011) and sons Joseph Frederick (born October 2013) and Theodore James Kushner (born March 2016).
Speaking to People in 2016, she said she squeezes in getting ready before her children wake up.
“I want my children to see me first every morning, so I wake up at 5 and make sure to shower and exerciscelebritynewse before they get up,” she said.
She added that she tries to spend time with each of her children doing the things that they love.
“I try to carve out special time with each of them,” she said. “Joseph loves playing with cars. Arabella could read with me for hours. I never loved baking until Arabella started cooking with me.” She added, “Poor Theo, he’s always the one where they’re interrupting his time with me.”
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