According to the NY Post, Ivanka Trump, 31, is pregnant with her second child. Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, welcomed daughter Arabella Rose about two years ago, and she’s spoken of her wish to have more children. She’s also talked about how she regularly works 16 hour days, didn’t intend on taking more than two weeks maternity leave with her last pregnancy, and how she finds it harder to be with her daughter on the weekends than to be in the office. She just made some of those comments to Redbook recently, we reported on it last week, so I’m surprised to hear this news. Here’s more:
Donald Trump is set to become a grandfather again — his daughter Ivanka Trump is pregnant with her second child, sources exclusively tell Page Six. We’re told Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, are delighted that she’s expecting and due in the fall. The source added, “Ivanka is starting to tell friends and family about her pregnancy.” The couple already have daughter Arabella Rose, who turns 2 in July. Ivanka recently told Forbes that she would “love to have three children, maybe four.”
I’ll give basically the same response I gave to Ivanka’s interview last week – this is her prerogative. She’s not preaching about the superiority of her way of life, she’s just explaining how she does it. If she wants to have kids and still be a workaholic that’s her choice. Many of you pointed out that men with children regularly work insane hours and that no one ever questions them. Plus, Ivanka’s office is very close to her home/penthouse from what she’s said. If she wants to let her nannies be with the kids most of the time and she’s not fronting like she’s some kind of supermom, then that’s cool with me.
Personally, the longest I’ve ever worked was a 12 hour shift at a gas station when I was college, but that’s much different from the lavish office where Ivanka Trump runs her growing empire. That 12 hour shift was hell. Working from home is much different, and I get to move around and take breaks whenever I want. That’s probably how Ivanka feels about her office, it’s her home away from home except she doesn’t have as many distractions. Congratulations to Ivanka and Jared on their happy news!
Ivanka is shown on 2-19 (header photo), on 12-5 (hair up) and with her husband at the Met Gala in May, 2012. Credit: WENN.com
This girl definitely got a nose job.
Agree. But I don’t see why she did it – she looked fine before. Now she’s got “the nose” that is on the face of every other person who’s had a nose job. It’s interchangeable. Different person, same nose.
At least two different surgeries to get it that way, and it’s over-done and too small now.
I love her new nose. Too bad her daughter carried the genes of her old nose not the new one hahahaha
She’s had plenty of surgeries.
I am curious if she got a chin implant recently. He face looks much longer than it used to. She looks great though, I kinda like her.
I think she did get a chin implant as well as a nose job…. I used to think she looked overdone, but it looks like she grew into the work – she looks really good now.
Nose job, porcelain veneers on her teeth, chin implant, boob job, hair extensions, and possibly a brow lift as well…
Ah, a natural beauty!
She’s okay and intelligent, as far as I can tell.
Her elephant killing brother is not. If he were really a tough guy, he would fight animals bare-handed and not at a distance with a gun. Though he’d probably only fight bunnies then.
My bunny scares the crap out of me when he’s grumpy
I just knew somebody was going to make a ‘bunnies are scarier than you think’ comment 😛
With two she may need to up her time so they both get attention. But I do agree she can walk to her home whenever she wants, her kids can visit her at work and she has a team of nannies and help. May have to cut out such long days when she is pregnant and really only 2 weeks? Makes me think she is trying to prove something the proof will be how the kids will be when they grow up.
Don’t forget her boob job too!
I really dont think she got a boob job. She is not a skinny girl, she is curvy so I dont think she did her boobs.
Even when she was younger her boobs were big.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/12/27/fashion/27ivanka-3-190.jpg
Um, yes she did.
http://plasticsurgerystar.com/ivanka-trump-plastic-surgery-breast-implants
My goodness she looks like her mother in those photos with her husband.
Thank goodness for that. The alternative would be too cruel.
lol
+ 1 gazillion!
Sure, it’s her prerogative, but why would you bring a child in this over-crowded world if you don’t want to spend any time with him? I have more respect for woman who admit that maternity is not their thing and choose not to have any.
+1 totally agree. Nothing wrong with a woman choosing a career over children, esp. if she finds being with the children way more stressful then work.
I agree.
Me too.
+2 I know a lot of people are defending this as her choice, but the fact is these children don’t have a choice to spend more time with their mother. Kids need quality time with both their parents, its important to give them this. A lot of celebrities do not and seem to end up with damaged children (drugs, eating disorders, etc.)
+1
Why have a child, indeed? I definitely applaud people who are honest with themselves, and choose to focus on their career if that is what they really want. Having a child is a HUGE decision, and unless there is going to be someone 100% committed to it, it shouldn’t be done, IMHO. Nothing wrong whatsoever with deciding to focus solely on career. It’s called being honest with yourself and having priorities.
+100000
So a woman shouldn’t have children if she also wants a career as well? Who are we to say what other people should do with their lives, and how they should raise their children? For all we know, her husband is home 24/7 with their child (it’s 2013, it can happen).
That’s not what she’s saying at all. But Ivanka CHOOSES her schedule. And she CHOOSES to let nannies be the majority caregivers of her children. She could choose less hours but she doesn’t. What’s the point of it all? I’m not judging the choice, personally, nor do I think she’s saying it’s the only way to do it. But I think it’s a genuine question-why have children to only see them 1 hour a day? I could ask the same thing about all her relationships-why bother having a husband or friends? It seems she has time for nothing but her work. Having said that, her friends and husband have a choice to be in her life. Her children don’t have that choice.
ETA-I would pose the same questions to a man who chose to work 16 hours out of 24 hours in a day.
Her husband “works” just as much as she does. Neither of them seem to be really home for little Arabella as often as they could be it seems.
Hey Marigold and Bijlee, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
I don’t think it matters which parent stays with a child, as long as someone does. They need so much care, and a Nanny is not a substitute.
While her parents are enjoying “having it all,” Arabella misses out on both of them, and I just don’t think that’s fair.
I agree with the above comments so much! Nothing else to add, as it has already been excellently said.
I thought she had apple cheeks but perhaps that is natural aging. Her jawline looks quite sculpted now. Anyway, she has always been beautiful but she looks older now without the cheeks.
I think it’s just natural aging – I’m her age, used to have apple cheeks, but no longer do, unfortunately.
I have a table full of magazines in which she goes on and on about working and a gadget full of websites that show she has been on perma-vacation since the baby was born. So yes, probably
16 hr days on Martha’s Vinyard and Greek Isles and Disney world
Really? Yeah I honestly think these people exaggerate how much they “work.”. It’s just endless parties and networking for them. He woman has a perfume line, clothing line, is in charge of the housing/hotel something stuff for her dad, and has a kid and a husband who he himself is busy. Something’s up.
I’m not saying she doesn’t work, or even work hard but she also takes a shit ton of time off. Which is to be expected. I do love that she gives kudos to SAHMs and to working women. The pictures she posts or tweets are stunning. She actually comes across very well given that she is Trump’s daughter.
Yes, I believe she totally works many 16 hour days but it does seem she’s vacationing more than working lately. Which also shows she is truely enjoying being a mother.
I can’t fault her. What little I know of her. I was harsh, but not untrue. She seems to work hard /play often. I don’t know who raised her but well done. She could have been Goop or Paris, but she comes of as nothing of the sort.
Sigh… I’m just jealous I can’t spend the winter sunning about with the kids.
She looks strange…she’s young, but there is a vibe of an old lady going on. Maybe it’s because of the nose job, I don’t know.
Agreed…that photo in blue she looks like a blonde Sophie Marceau.
gorgeous lady….congrats!!!!
I thought she was older than 31. She’s still beautiful though, she has a certain grace to her that I wish I had.
Sorry, I disagree, I don’t really have much respect for workaholic dads who never see their kids by choice either. When my dad started his career in business he was the bottom rung so he had to work all the time when we were young, but as he got more responsibility he was able to make choices to spend more time with us, like hiking or skiing or cycling, and now he has his own company he values his employees having time for their families instead of working 90+ hour weeks just to make an extra buck or two. Some of the best advice my mother gave me is that you can’t have it all in life, there just isn’t enough time in the day for someone to be a perfect worker, spouse, housekeeper, parent, dresser etc, we have to make choices about what is important to us. As someone who grew up with nannies and babysitters it still hurts to be a kid knowing your parents don’t have time for you, even if it is supposedly for your benefit. And from the receiving experience, you never really know what the nannies will be telling/teaching your kids. I knew very wealthy kids in high school I pitied because their parents clearly didn’t care much and no one had taught them much about how to actually deal with life. Ivanka’s still young with young kids so maybe she’ll realize like my parents did thst you can’t outsource parenting, only care. How can you teach your children values if you don’t even spend time with them? There are plenty of bad parents that spend all day with their kids so it’s not time by itself, but you can’t even build a friendship with someone if you never spend time together. Sorry for the long rant, but this is a subject I’ve seen a lot about in life and people choosing to have kids for their image only to choose doing something they enjoy more than parenting with all of their time really bugs me, even if it is work. Babies benefit more from extra time with you than an extra couple hundred bucks!
Sorry, i think you are being unfair towards working dads. My dad works a lot too and he started from being a limo driver… Now he’s a business man running his own company. Sometimes I only see him in the morning, but I’m grateful for everything he’s done and provided us with a very comfortable life. Without him, I wouldn’t have gone studied abroad, or studied in one of the best universities in the US.
So yes, I’m grateful, and I know that’s how my father loves and cares about me because he wants all the opportunities for me. Mind you, both of my parents didn’t come from well-to-do families (they both come from villages and lost alot during the wars here), so yes I know that my parents want me to have everything that they couldn’t have and are willing to sacrifice their time for me. That’s how I know they really do love and I do appreciate all their hard work.
What the heck happened to her nose? It looks so… small. Like an indentation. I am all for nose jobs, but it disappears in her face.
I’m surprised she even has time for sex with a 16 hour work day and one child already and wonder who would bother having another child if the first one is already in the hands of nannies.
She doesn’t need to work, financially she’s set for 5 lifetimes or more. Why not actually enjoy seeing your child growing up. 16 hours a day is extreme and I can honestly understand it if you are poor and need to work those hours to survive day by day but she certainly does not…
Kate Middleton and other spoiled brats who were born into wealth do not have to work and we criticize them for being lazy and spoiled.
Work is something of value and every person should contribute and feel they can produce something and utilize their abilities and gifts outside of their home life.
It’s great that she is taking part in the market life and not cloistered at home, just becuase she has money.
According to your line of reasoning, every wealthy men and women should not work and simply care for their childern and do things around the house all of their adult lives.
She’s definitely had a boob job- went from flat to DDs overnight, but it suits her- she’s a tall woman with hips. But I liked her stronger nose- pity.
I really think that people exaggerate the amount of time they actually work. When the husband and I started our own business, we worked 70+ hours for the first several months and just about died. 16 hours a day, day after day, will turn you into a babbling idiot. I can believe that she’s at the office 12 hours with a lot of time spent “lunching”, but I don’t buy the 16 hours a day, at all, and so I don’t worry whether her kids are seeing her enough or not.
Ivanka… before nose and boob job. She definitely had work done on her chin too. And maybe, had fat sucked out of her cheeks.
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wow, talk about a major difference! i think they went a little bit too small with her nose, though, it looks like a noe job.
She’s had a ton of plastic surgery and it looks very good. I never thought she was attractive when she was younger.
I think the 16 hr. days is a slap in the face to all of us that work hard and do not have the luxuries she has.
There’s no way you could regularly work 16 hour days and not look haggard. She has a lot of privileges she’s not explaining and I think that’s revolting.
Does she really need to explain that having hundreds of millions of dollars means that you can afford nannies and household help? I think we can pretty much just assume that without her listing her domestic help.
By privileges I’m talking about more abstract things such as having your own private office bathroom, to the ability to take naps in her office, to more flexibility for time off than the average person, etc. Things that the average person does not have access to. Yet, she flaunts she’s working 16 hr. days. In my opinion, that’s disgusting.
When does she have the time for all the plastic surgery, staying in shape, clothes, make up, hair, socializing if she’s working 16 hr. days? It does not add up and she’s taking a lot more time off than she’s admitting.
The only way I would have kids is if I could have a night time nanny and could go back to work. not every mother bonds with their children or acts the same with them. My mother is a cold, mean-spirited woman who loathed being a stay-at-home mom and had it been a different era (I’m 32 now), se would have happily gone back to work instead. I would much rather Ivanka do what she loves to do than take out her frustrations with not working out on her kid.