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While it has been a historical week for the Trump family, Oct. 30 also marked Ivanka Trump’s 43rd birthday.
The girl of president-elect Donald Trump and his precocious ex-wife Ivana Trump rang successful her birthday Nov. 4, the time earlier Election Day successful the United States. (She adjacent got a shoutout from adjacent person Kim Kardashian: “No 1 sweeter than you @ivankatrump.”)
To people the occasion, Ivanka—who shares daughter Arabella Kushner, 13, and sons Joseph Kushner, 10, and Theodore Kushner, 8, with husband Jared Kushner—reflected connected “life’s lessons,” she wrote, sharing a representation of her with a day cake. “Here are immoderate truths I’ve learned on the way.”
As she tweeted, these are the 17 learnings from her 43 years:
1. "Family and friends are everything. Nourish these relationships, cheque successful connected them, and fto radical cognize you care, adjacent crossed distances. As Esther Perel says, 'The prime of your relationships determines the prime of your life.'"
2. "Forgive people—it frees you much than anyone else."
3. "Everyone was sent to thatch you something. Every idiosyncratic you conscionable holds a reflector to a acquisition your psyche needs to grow."
4. "Avoid Lashon Hara / Gossip. Choose words that heal, not harm."
5. "Trust yourself. Identify your halfway values and unrecorded successful alignment with them; this whitethorn mean mounting steadfast boundaries for yourself and with others."
6. "Nourish your body. Eating whole, locally grown, nutritious foods fuels your vigor and spirit. (But bask that occasional portion of barroom without guilt—indulgence is 1 of life’s joys too!)"
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7. "Get sunshine daily. It makes the remainder of your day—and night—better."
8. "'Until you marque the unconscious conscious, it volition nonstop your life, and you volition telephone it fate.' – Carl Jung Bring consciousness to your hidden patterns, oregon they’ll softly publication your beingness communicative arsenic if it were destiny."
9. "Strong body, beardown mind. Move your assemblage daily, assistance weights, play sports, and clasp play."
10. "Strive for 3 regular wins: a carnal win, a intelligence win, and a spiritual win. @naval says, 'A calm mind, a acceptable body, and a location afloat of love. These things can’t beryllium bought; they indispensable beryllium earned.'"
11. "Cultivate self-mastery. As Marcus Aurelius said, 'You person powerfulness implicit your mind—not extracurricular events.' Focus inward; existent spot lies successful controlling your response, not the satellite astir you."
12. "Guard your peace. Epictetus observed, 'Anyone susceptible of angering you becomes your master.' Mastery implicit aforesaid means others don’t power your authorities of mind."
13. "Be unfastened to the truth, wherever it leads. Listen, reflect, challenge, and grow. Cultivate creativity and enlargement successful beingness and clasp caller ideas, connections, and art."
14. "Get curious. About your partner, your kids, your friends, and the satellite astir you."
15. "Approach radical and beingness with emotion and positivity. @DollyParton said, 'I don’t knock and condemn; I emotion and accept.'"
16. "'The terms of thing is the magnitude of beingness you speech for it.' – Henry David Thoreau Every prime is simply a commercialized of your clip and energy; walk them connected what genuinely matters."
17. “'Thinking is difficult; that’s wherefore astir radical judge.' – Carl Jung What you judge, you cannot understand. Instead, observe, study, and learn."
Now, with NBC News projecting that Republican campaigner Trump has defeated Democratic opponent Kamala Harris to become the 47th president of the United States, Ivanka volition erstwhile again go the First Daughter.
Read connected for much astir the Trump family…
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Ivana Trump
Ivana Trump was the archetypal woman of Former President Donald Trump. Born successful Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia—now Zlín of the Czech Republic—in 1949, she roseate to fame arsenic a competitory skier. And, acknowledgment to her matrimony to Austrian skis teacher Alfred Winklmayr in 1971, Ivana was capable to question often extracurricular of Czechoslovakia.
According to her publication Raising Trump, the exemplary met Donald 3 years aft her 1973 divorcement during a New York trip, wherever she'd traveled for a Canadian manner amusement up of the Montreal Olympics. They wed successful 1977 and welcomed 3 kids: Donald Trump Jr. calved successful 1977, Ivanka Trump calved successful 1981 and Eric Trump calved successful 1984.
The pair's divorcement was finalized successful 1992 pursuing his matter with Marla Maples, whom helium aboriginal married.
However, Ivana—who past joined Riccardo Mazzucchelli for 2 years followed by Rossano Rubicondi for little than a year—and Donald remained connected bully terms.
“Donald during the divorcement was brutal,” she told ABC News successful 2017. “He took the divorcement arsenic a concern deal, and helium cannot lose. He has to win. So helium took astir 2 years. And aft the last concern was straightened up, we would conscionable speech and we are friends.”
Ivana died successful 2022 astatine property 73. According to NBC News, the New York City Medical Examiner said she died of “blunt interaction injuries” and that her mode of decease was an accident. A elder NYC authoritative with nonstop cognition added the circumstances were accordant with a autumn connected the stairs successful her New York apartment.
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Donald Trump Jr.
In 1977, Ivana and Donald welcomed their eldest lad Donald Trump Jr. He began moving for his father’s institution The Trump Organization successful 2001 and present serves arsenic the enforcement vice president. Don Jr. has besides been progressive successful his dad’s governmental campaigns, including speaking astatine rallies and the Republican National Convention during his father's statesmanlike runs.
He shares 5 children with his ex-wife, exemplary Vanessa Haydon: Kai (who made a code astatine the 2024 Republican National Convention) Donald III, Tristan, Spencer and Chloe. Don Jr. is present engaged to Fox News alum Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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Ivanka Trump
Four years aft the accomplishment of Don Jr., Donald and Ivana became parents to girl Ivanka Trump.
Before her father’s presidency, the University of Pennsylvania alum worked astatine The Trump Organization. But aft helium was elected successful 2016, the manner marque founder—who had her ain eponymous line—took connected the relation of Advisor to the President.
After her dada announced helium would beryllium moving for president again successful 2024, Ivanka revealed she would beryllium stepping retired of the governmental arena to absorption connected her household with husband, erstwhile White House elder advisor Jared Kushner, and their children Arabella, Joseph and Theodore.
“I emotion my begetter precise much,” she said successful portion of a 2022 connection obtained by NBC News. “This clip around, I americium choosing to prioritize my young children and the backstage beingness we are creating arsenic a family. I bash not program to beryllium progressive successful politics.”
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Eric Trump
Born successful 1984, Eric Trump is the 3rd kid of Ivana and Donald. Like his brother, helium works arsenic enforcement vice president of The Trump Organization, which helium joined successful 2007.
He is joined to Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, with whom helium shares kids Luke and Carolina.
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Marla Maples
Marla Maples is Donald’s 2nd wife, whom helium met portion inactive joined to Ivana.
In Raising Trump, Ivana wrote the histrion approached her astir the matter during a travel to Aspen successful 1989. Still, Marla said connected a 2018 occurrence of the ABC podcast Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris that she “never considered” herself a mistress.
"My volition was to ne'er bring hurt," she continued. "Do I privation much than thing that we could person had this narration aft his divorcement papers were signed? Absolutely. I mean, with each my heart. How overmuch heartache would it person saved truthful galore radical if I had seen that portion of insubstantial earlier we got involved? But it didn't hap that way."
Marla and Donald welcomed girl Tiffany Trump successful 1993, and the mates wed aboriginal that year. However, the Dancing With the Stars alum and the 45th commandant successful main announced their separation 4 years aboriginal and finalized their divorcement successful 1999.
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Tiffany Trump
After her parents’ breakup, Tiffany Trump relocated with her parent to California.
"She moved america retired of New York to get retired of the spotlight and fto maine turn up and find my ain individuality versus being successful the shadiness of a sanction oregon increasing up precise young with each that pressure,” Tiffany told People successful 2016. “So, she wanted maine to person a accidental to person a mean childhood. As mean arsenic possible. I deliberation that she did good successful that.”
She released her 2011 azygous “Like a Bird" and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania successful 2016 with a B.A. successful sociology, focusing connected instrumentality and society. She past went to Georgetown Law School, wherever she graduated with a JD successful 2020.
In 2022, Tiffany wed Michael Boulos. Her begetter announced they're expecting their archetypal baby during an October 2024 code astatine the Detroit Economic Club. "She’s an exceptional young woman," helium said during his remarks. "And she’s going to person a baby. So that’s nice.”
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Melania Trump
Melania Trump is Donald’s 3rd woman and erstwhile First Lady of the United States. Born successful Mesto, Slovenia successful 1970, she is the 2nd First Lady to beryllium calved extracurricular of the U.S. and the lone First Lady to go a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Melania met Donald successful New York successful 1996 portion she was moving arsenic a model.
“It was a large manner enactment that my person organized, manner week, and helium invited me,” she recalled connected a 2016 occurrence of On the Record With Greta Van Susteren. “That’s however we met with Donald.”
Melania and Donald joined successful 2005, and they welcomed lad Barron Trump the pursuing year.
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Barron Trump
Born successful 2006, Barron Trump is Donald and Melania’s lone child. While helium has lived a much backstage life—relocating with his parents from New York to unrecorded successful Washington, D.C. and past Florida—it looked similar helium mightiness participate the governmental satellite aft helium was selected successful May 2024 arsenic a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention. However, Barron declined the offer.
"While Barron is honored to person been chosen arsenic a delegate by the Florida Republican Party,” a connection from Melania’s bureau shared with NBC News astatine the clip said, “he regretfully declines to enactment owed to anterior commitments.”
Like studying, perhaps, with Barron starting his freshman twelvemonth astatine New York University successful 2024. "He was accepted to a batch of colleges," his begetter told the Daily Mail in an interrogation published Sept. 4. "He's a precise astute guy, and he'll beryllium going to Stern, the concern school, which is simply a large schoolhouse astatine NYU."
