Ivanka Trump was born on October 30, 1981, and has had many high-profile jobs, including businesswoman, fashion entrepreneur, author, and former senior White House advisor. She is the second child of Donald Trump and Ivana Trump. For most of her adult life, she has been in the public eye, first as an executive at the Trump Organization, then as a politician, and now as someone who wants to keep her family life private.
Early Years and School
Ivanka Marie Trump grew up in Manhattan as a member of one of New York’s most famous real estate families. After her parents divorced in 1992, she stayed close to both of them, but her mother raised her most of the time. She went to the well-known Chapin School in Manhattan before moving to Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding school in Connecticut.
Trump briefly modeled after high school and worked with agencies like Elite Model Management. She did, however, decide to focus on her education. She went to Georgetown University for two years before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. There, she graduated cum laude in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics.
Career in Business
The Trump Company
After she graduated, Ivanka Trump joined the Trump Organization and quickly moved up the ranks. She was in charge of big development projects like the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago and the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Her job grew to include overseeing the company’s growth into new businesses and stores.
She was very good at developing and branding luxury real estate at the Trump Organization. She helped design and build many well-known properties and became one of the most well-known faces of the Trump brand, often appearing with her father in business settings.
Brand for Fashion and Lifestyle
Trump started her own fashion line in 2007, starting with jewelry. Later, the brand added clothes, shoes, bags, and other accessories to its line. Macy’s, Nordstrom, and her own e-commerce site all sold her products.
The brand put itself in the modern fashion market by making clothes for working women that looked professional and feminine at the same time. Trump was very involved in the design and marketing of her products. She often wore things from her own line in public.
However, the brand had problems during her father’s political campaigns and presidency. Some stores stopped selling her products because sales were falling and customers were pressuring them to do so. In July 2018, she said she was closing her fashion brand so she could focus on her job at the White House.
Publishing and the Media
Trump also got into publishing and the media. She was a regular on NBC’s “The Apprentice” with her father, where she was a judge and advisor on the reality show. “The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life,” her first book, came out in 2009 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller.
“Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success,” her second book, came out in 2017. It was about giving women more power at work. The book had both personal stories and advice on business and living well.
Political Role in the 2016 Campaign
Ivanka Trump was a big help to her father during his 2016 presidential campaign. She spoke at the Republican National Convention in prime time and was often seen on the campaign trail. Her polished speech and appeal to suburban women voters made her a great asset to the campaign.
Senior Advisor to the White House
Trump became Senior Advisor to the President in March 2017, after her father won the election. She worked as a federal employee without pay. This was a first for a president’s child to hold such a high-level position in the White House.
Her portfolio included things like giving women more economic power, creating jobs, and training workers. She was in charge of a number of projects, including:
- Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative: An effort by the government as a whole to give women more economic power around the world
- Programs for developing the workforce: Training people in skills and giving them apprenticeships
- Increasing the child tax credit: Pushing for policies that help families with jobs
- Leave for family members: Making policies better for federal workers
Trump also spoke for the US at the G20 summit and other international meetings with world leaders. A lot of the time, her job was to encourage women to start their own businesses and participate in the economy around the world.
Getting Away from Politics
Ivanka Trump made a clear break from politics in November 2022, when her father announced his run for president in 2024. “I will always love and support my father, but from now on I will do so outside of politics,” she said, making it clear that she was no longer involved in politics.
She said, “I don’t plan to be involved in politics,” and she called the “dark world” of politics “at odds with what feels good for me as a human being.” This choice was a big change for someone who had been very involved in both her father’s business empire and his political career.
What I’m doing now and what I’m focusing on
Trump said, “This time around, I’m choosing to put my young children and the private life we’re building as a family first.”
She married Jared Kushner, a real estate developer and former senior White House advisor, in 2009. Arabella Rose (born in 2011), Joseph Frederick (born in 2013), and Theodore James (born in 2016) are the couple’s three kids. The family lives in Miami, Florida right now.
Recent posts on social media show that she is spending time with her family, posting pictures of her kids at concerts and games, and having fun in Miami. She has embraced what she calls “fresh starts” as she begins 2025, which shows that she is determined to keep living a private, family-centered life.
The legacy and effect
The ups and downs of Ivanka Trump’s career show how complicated modern American political and business families are. She successfully built her own business empire while working for her father’s company, showed political skill as a White House advisor, and finally chose to keep her family out of politics instead of staying involved.
During her time in the White House, she did some good things and some bad things. Supporters praised her efforts to improve women’s economic status and help people get jobs. Critics questioned whether it was right for her to hire family members and whether her policies would work.
Even though her father will be back in the White House in 2025, she has chosen to leave politics. This is a rare choice among political families to put their personal lives ahead of public service or political power.
Final Thoughts
She looked great at her father’s 2024 victory party, but her presence was a “shift from her recent pattern of avoiding the political limelight,” which suggests that this was more about supporting her family than getting back into politics.
As her father begins his second term as president, Ivanka Trump’s story continues to change. She is still committed to her private life. She made the choice to leave behind the intense scrutiny and pressures of political life in favor of what she has called a more personally fulfilling path focused on family and private pursuits.
Her path from business executive to political advisor to private citizen shows how complicated family life can be in politics and how much it can cost to serve the public at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
