Ivanka trump: first daughter ‘never stopped’ trying to please father

Mr Trump was absent a lot as Ivanka was growing up, especially after he divorced her mother Ivana in 1992, when she was 10 or 11 years old. The divorce followed an affair with actress Marla

Maples, who became his second wife. According to the 2019 book ‘Kushner Inc’, Ivanka asked her mother: “Does it mean I’m not going to be Ivanka Trump anymore?” It was then she decided that

she was going to go out of her way to spend time with her father. Author Vicky Ward wrote: “Whether out of insecurity or love – or a combination of both – Ivanka never stopped trying to

please him.” She would reportedly drop in on him on the way to school every day and even call him from inside the cleaner’s cupboard at school. Mr Trump would apparently always take her

call. READ MORE: REVEALED: HOW IVANKA TRUMP WAS HARRASSED BY A STALKER Family friend Nikki Haskell said: “She was always daddy’s little girl.” However, she did admit Mr Trump’s noticeable

absence, saying: “Donald was there when he was there.” Unfortunately, it was not just her father but also her mother who was not often there for Ivanka. One friend of Ivanka’s, a real estate

heir from New York, told Ms Ward: “The dysfunction and loneliness of Ivanka’s family, the absence of her parents from her life, put her in a situation where she was vulnerable.” When Ivanka

started at a new school, a boarding school in Connecticut, she even had to tour it on her own aged 15. Her tour guide told Ms Ward how she pulled up in a stretch limousine and emerged on

her own. They said: “I felt really bad. The white limo just sat there and waited. “She was very nice. She was very shy, she was very quiet. “But the part that sticks in my mind was the fact

that no one was there with her. “It was a big deal. It was weird.” That said, Ivanka did “fight” for her father’s attention and ended up having a much closer relationship with him than her

brothers Don Jr and Eric. Ivanka herself has a much more positive view of her childhood, claiming her father was “nothing if not accessible” to her and her siblings in a 2013 interview.