I don’t get Ivanka Trump, but I appreciate that she’s not a smug “my way is the only way” type of celebrity. Ivanka will tell you what works for her, but she presents it as her choice and not like she’s shading anyone else for not following her lead. For instance, just last year Ivanka admitted that she works 16 hour days in her job as the CEO of a shoe company. At that point she had only one child, daughter Arabella, now nearly three. Ivanka admitted that she saw Arabella in the mornings and for an hour and 15 minutes on weekday evenings, and that she found weekends with her daughter “exhausting” and harder than working at the office. She also said some really nice things about working moms busting their butts.
Ivanka has since had another child, son Joseph, born last October. She’s of course lost the baby weight in short order and looks gorgeous. In the upcoming issue of Shape she shared some of diet and exercise tips and it was all pretty sensible. (Ivanka is on the cover but it hasn’t been released yet. We’ll update with that as soon as it’s out.) She also said that she feels guilty being away from her family to exercise. That doesn’t make sense to me considering how much she works, but I’m just trying to figure her out. Again at least she’s not acting superior. Here’s more:
Now the model, businesswoman, entrepreneur and TV star has shared her secrets for keeping in shape and balancing her busy life in an interview for the May edition of Shape magazine.
The 32-year-old daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump admitted: ‘I ate like a teenager. Carbs three meals a day, usually in the form of pizza or pasta.’
But that began to change when she was expecting Arabella, who will be three in July.
The Celebrity Apprentice judge forced herself to eat more lean protein such as chicken and fish.
‘Slowly, I started to actually enjoy, if not crave these healthier options. Now healthy eating is the norm for me.
‘I love making vegetable, pea and broccoli soups. They’re pure, low calorie and incredibly tasty.’
All this healthy food works.
And it helped her lose the 40lbs she put on with her daughter, and the 30lbs she later put on with her son, Joseph, who was born in October.
The executive VP of development acquisitions at the Trump Organisation pinged back into pre-baby shape in record time.
She looks tanned and toned on Shape’s front cover, wearing low-rise blue skinny jeans that skim her hips and a white cropped top that reveals her cleavage and her taut tummy. Her long blonde tresses frame her perfectly made-up face.
Ivanka also credits trainer Rhonda Malkin, a former Rockettes dancer, for helping her sculpt her body.
Rhonda has developed her own method, called Fusion Exercise, which incorporates dance, yoga, Pilates and massage.
And the celebrity donned revealing white workout gear as she demonstrated six of Rhonda’s exercises for the magazine.
Busy Ivanka told the magazine: ‘When I was in my 20s, I felt guilty if I didn’t exercise – now I feel guilty if I do. It’s time I could be spending with my family.’
So ‘date nights’ for her and her businessman husband of five years, Jared Kushner, usually involve playing tennis or golf.
She also has tricks for adding a bit more exercise to her daily life.
‘I’ll take the stairs instead of the elevator, or when I’m on a phone call, I’ll do squats or pace the room when I’m talking,’ she shared.
‘We’re modern women! We have to figure out how to make it work, right?’
Maybe Ivanka is just one of those people who feels like she has to be either at work or spending with her family. When she’s not doing one of those things she thinks she’s wasting time. But it doesn’t make sense to me why she doesn’t carve out time from work to exercise. Maybe she does though and feels like she should be spending that time with her kids, I don’t know. There are pictures of Ivanka on social media exercising with her kids, which seems like a nice way to combine family time with exercise.
I checked out Ivanka’s tumblr and I have to say I love her shoes! There was a pair I really wanted, these super cute Derry booties, but they don’t have them in black and white in my size anymore on Zappos or Nordstrom. The candid photos that Ivanka posts of her family are lovely. She doesn’t seem like she’s bragging, just sharing. I do like her. It’s impressive to me that Donald Trump’s daughter turned out so well. Also, her children are adorable.
photos from Tumblr
That is one cute chubby baby.
Agreed, both of her kids are adorable.
I want to eat him!
I use to this it was so weird when people said they want to eat babies or toes and fingers. Still sounds weird, but I get it.
I LOVE babies — I just don’t think I could eat a whole one.
LOL, Cecilia.
He’s the reason I came to read! Cute little devil. 🙂
How is that Donald Trump of all people raised his kids right? Out of all the celebrity kids, his are the best behaved, educated, and most stable.
Seriously, compare the a Trump kids to the Hilton kids. Even the British Royal family! Will still won’t get a job. And you just know that the SNL sketch of Harry (“oh, he did his Chinaman impression again”) isn’t that far off from the truth.
him and their mother raised smart kids. Donald seems like he cared a lot about his kids and was/is very candid about life with them. Lots of parents coddle their children and dont let them make needed mistakes that will help them in the long run. Life is trial and error sometimes.
Nannies and the kids spending a large majority of custody time with their moms. Ivanna especially doesn’t seem to buck any nonsense
Donald Jr. and Eric to have their professional and married life together (although both hunt rhinos for fun and post about it, so there’s that). Not sure what Tiffany does and that’s a good thing.
Jury is still out on Barron.
His sons are dbags though. Completely out of touch, self-entitled and obnoxious.
My theory on why Ivanka turned out so well is that she is a girl. She has spent her life knowing that sexist father is wrong about women just being trophies and having accepted that he is wrong on that, she was able to see that he could be wrong about many other things. I think Ivanka has actively resisted becoming her dad while at the same time accepting that she had to find a way to work with him, maybe even change him. The boys on the other hand are happy to turn into their dear old dad.
Her sons are TOTAL dbags.
Ivanka is hard to get a read on because she is SUPER image conscious. She’s trying to build herself into a brand so there’s a certain amount of calculation to make herself appealing. Honestly, we probably don’t know what she’s really like.
@Omega: good point about Ivanka wanting to be a complete 180 of what her father is. Good for her! She’s my spirit animal for combining work and motherhood.
Ditto. It’s because she’s a girl and it was mostly her mother that influenced her. The boys took after their dad, which is okay fiscally speaking, but relationship-wise and overall character – yuck!
Bingo, she’s a CEO because of her last name. I’m so tired of I work 16 hours a day crap. Stop trying to brain wash the public that working 16 hours a day is cool.
That’s redickulous, no one should work those hours. As I CEO. You didn’t get their working your way up the ranks and paying your student loans, with a weekend job. I was a designer for your company that you folded. That was f- up.
We all had to scramble to find work after not warning us.
Girl bye.
People need to stop with this I work 16 hours crap. Hire more people, people need jobs.
I’m with Bridget-I think it’s suspect that she makes a concerted effort to stay in the public eye. I don’t think she’s a Kardashian level famewhore-but really, why so many pics of her kids?
I’m with Nelly on this one. Besides, what does she do? The CB write up says shoe company and the quoted article says a VP at her dad’s company.
I think she’s inflating her hours, and “building her brand” whatever the hell that is.
Yeah I don’t believe she routinely works 16 hour days and if she does she’s a fool. Life’s too short to miss your kids growing up.
Her Tumbler is my guilty pleasure. She’s posted on there her alleged daily diary which is actually very sensible if alittle rigid. And there is time to be with her kids carved into it.
She seems very grounded for a Trump and a someone who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. But I agree with other comments that she is inflating her work hours. She might be a hard worker but she was also given so many opportunities that none of us will have to be a CEO at the age of 32. I think she knows this too and has exaggerated her work hours to prove that she deserves to be where she is rather than the fact that her name has opened many, many doors for her. If she is working long hours, she has assistants who help her with daily errands that takes up a lot of time for regular people (going to the post office, buying groceries, cooking, shopping, scheduling appointments, etc.) and she has a personal trainer to maximise her exercise time to the fullest. Also, I don’t think working long hours is something to brag about. I’m all for women who choose to be career moms, but having children requires sacrifice for both moms and dads. She can be a CEO and a mom because she is a Trump, works for the family business, and is very wealthy.
90% off celebrity kids are stable, well behaved, educated, etc. Spielberg kids, Denzel’s kids, etc.I’m from Houston like Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad, their kids are successful, educated, well behaved, etc.Paris and Barron Hilton are the exception .
I think the Hiltons are a textbook example of why children cannot be raised on love alone. Love absent of discipline can create some real monsters.
You should probably give most of the credit to the nanny(s). There is hope for IgNori yet.
I think she sees working out as an ‘extra’, while work is a necessity. All ‘extra time’ should be spent with her family. That’s what it sounds like to me.
Yeap, that’s how I see it too.
Yup. I think it’s pretty common for working moms to feel guilty about anything they do that they don’t see as a necessity when it takes time away from being with their kids. Even if you work out during your lunch hour, you could feel that if you worked through lunch you could be home an hour earlier to be with the kids…I think the guilt is probably always there no matter what you do.
This! I was going home at lunch for a long time to nurse my son. Then to hang out with him. I recently started going to the gym at lunch and it made me SO guilty not spending that time with him. About a month into it I have finally come to peace with it because I feel better overall. Not easy though!
that’s how i see it as well. as an total extra and not a necessity (like work). that, and the lack of time, is why i haven’t been to the gym since i gave birth.
Agreed. Totally understand where she is coming from. She looks so healthy and toned. Not Hollywood toned but really toned. Will have to check out her exercise recs.
Definitely. She either works to support her family or spends time with her family. Anything she does for herself (like exercise) makes her feel guilty. A lot of moms have this problem.
That is one adorable little boy 😀
Those are her husbands children. Also in that photo of the oldest holding the baby, she is sporting Grandpa’s combover 🙂
Say what you will about The Donald (I am no fan, myself), but Ill be damned if he didnt raise his daughter to know how to work hard. She could have to easily turned into a Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. She’s a great role model!
I’m always surprised at how much I like her, considering I abhor her father.
I don’t know, I get a different vibe, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Minority view here. Yah, she works. But she’s not working smart. I don’t think she even WANTS to be home. Her work/life equation is seriously out of balance, maybe because she has Daddy issues and has to constantly prove herself. Selling shoes is not curing cancer. Too bad those cute kids never see her.
Okay, maybe that’s it.
I’m with you, Kiddo.
SIGH. Or maybe she genuinely likes working and wants to have a family as well? Kinda like men do–like, all the time–but nobody faults them for it?
I wonder if her father faced this much scrutiny for wanting both?
Ugh you know what..not getting into this. Carry on with the double standards…
I’m thinking that it’s more about playing the big shot with bluster like her father. Not necessarily a woman thing. People treat Trump like he is this self made man, but he got money from his father, who was a self made man. I think she is just busy busy BIZZY BIZZY, cause BIZness and all that.
Also, Kitt , she was sort of bemoaning not seeing her kids enough so I don’t think it was a sexist remark from Belle. She was just saying that if that was the top priority, spending time with family, she could actually accomplish more than most people.
I don’t know, I still haven’t figured out exactly what it is that is ringing off to me. It might be nothing. Don’t like her, don’t hate her, definitely can’t stand her father and the tortured marmot on his head, tho.
If Ivanka’s husband admits to seeing his kids for a few minutes on his way out the door weekday mornings, and an ‘exhausting’ hour and a half on the weekends, I will raise my eyebrow to him just the same. Raising children requires a high level of responsibility and commitment (sort of like a 16 hour a day job). You can accept that responsibility or you can delegate it to the nannies. That’s what her daddy did, and that’s what she’s chosen to do. So be it. That’s her lifestyle and she’s entitled to it. We all chose our priorities.
@Kiddo-I didn’t get “bemoaning” at all out of it. She was honestly expressing that she wishes she had more time with her kids. I see no crime in that statement.
Personally, I wish I had more time PERIOD. Am I allowed to express that sentiment or will someone yell at me that I should sacrifice something that’s important to me so I can have more time?
It’s not always about “prioritizing”, sometimes we need things in life equally. She’s said in the past that she believes that working makes her a better mother-gives her balance, so obviously it’s not as compartmentalized as you guys make it out to be.
Actually Belle said “Too bad those cute kids never see her”. In other words, laying the guilt on with a damn spackle tool.
She’s career-minded and not willing to give that up to stay at home with her kids. Additionally, she has said in the past that her husband is often there to help with the kids. I see no problem with this as it’s a personal choice and she shouldn’t be shamed for it.
“If I’m working on a big deal and need to be in the office, I’m in the office. If Arabella needs me, I better be home and accessible and available,” she explained to Us. “Parenting is something you don’t get right every day, but you try to get right as many days as possible. Ultimately it’s a marathon. Time matters and being a consistently accessible, supportive parent is important.”
Where is the “imbalance” in that statement? Not seeing it. Actually, it sounds like a pretty realistic, grounded approach if you ask me.
Okay, sorry I missed that part about ‘the cute kids never seeing her’. I don’t judge women who decide to work and I’m not interested in having kids, personally, so there’s that. There is still something that feels contrived, just like her father, but maybe it’s just a matter of guilt by association on my part.
“Too bad those cute kids never see her” might have been said with less snark, but the fact remains – an infant and a toddler need constant supervision. Ivanka, by her own admission, is giving them a maximum of maybe 8-10 hrs a week. I’ll give her husband the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s investing the same. Point being, if she’s “not willing to stay home with the kids”, then by default the nannies are raising them (Unless you consider managing the nannies raising the kids – and many do!) That’s not harsh, that’s the reality. And, I agree, it’s their choice. I’ve know many parents who have chosen the same. I’ve no doubt most in Ivanka’s social circle have the chosen the same. This is the traditional way for many wealthy women whether they work or not. In fact, over last Christmas I spoke with an old friend who told me she preferred having the nannies do the work and felt it was best for the kids. (2,5,and 10) The three nannies were top notch, experienced, highly trained with child education degrees etc. She simply felt the hired ‘professionals’ were capable of raising children better than she was. Hard to argue with that sort of logic, eh? To each their own, but no need whitewashing.
I don’t care for her either. Any credit she gained with me over the years was flushed down the toilet when she started appearing on Celebrity Apprentice brown nosing her father.
@Kiddo-
Too late. I’ve already decided that you’re not coming to my birthday party. That’s right, invitation RESCINDED. Additionally, you better believe that I’ll be taking to Twitter to express my displeasure with you—once I figure out how to do that.
….anybody know where I can buy an..um…”Tweeter” so I can start my Twitter Feud with Kiddo?
You know what? I’m gonna have my own party and invite everyone else.
That’s right. You know what will be there? BALLS. All kinds. All colors, shapes and sizes. Instagram selfies to ensue at once with the Secret Society of Balls members, and their BALLS. So there!
Happy Birthday?! I guess.
Don’t be a ball-tease.
My birthday’s actually not until December, so you have plenty of time to get back in my good graces.
No double standard from me! I would say the same thing about a father who sees his children an hour a day. Personally I think it’s very sad. Nobody on their deathbed ever said “I wish I’d spent more time at the office” or “too bad I hung out with my kids after dinner.”
Kids are only little for a brief time. I cannot fathom why anyone WITH MONEY – male or female – would put a higher priority on being at the office than being with their children. I also very much doubt she has to be at the office all those hours. She could delegate more – or bring work home and at least be a presence in her kids’ lives.
BTW I am a working mother. I used to work a lot at home at night after the kids went to bed. I’m glad I was around when they were sick or sad or had a nightmare. I think we can all agree these kids are being raised by nannies.
@Belle Epoch I understand your point too.
It can only be praised a woman that could live from a trust-found an instead got education and a career. It seems like she likes what she does and therefore puts effort and time on it. I don’t see the problem. She could be spending 16h instead in the SPA, beauty treatments, vacation planning and so on…still, would not have time for her family. She has a lovely family that she tries to equilibrate with her career. Certainly she has the money to make it work. Nice for her to know what she wants and not being another trust fund bimbo.
Me too. And I’ve always struggled with feeling the same way, although my balance is skewed a little more toward kids. Of course, I don’t have my own company. And I am really starting to like her just because she isn’t preachy, which is so refreshing.
Massage?? Sign me up. Never heard of that being used as a component of a fitness regimen – except for post-exercise soreness of course.
I get where she’s coming from – I work a lot (we own 2 businesses, so there is no “off” time!) and I do feel guilty for working so much. It’s very hard for me to want to take any more time to go to the gym or out with just the girls or something. Like Ivanka, it’s either work time or family time for me – I obviously prefer it that way or I’d change, she probably does, too.
So she has two kids, works 16 hour days….when does she spend time being a mother to her kids? She is a gazillionaire. I think she can manage her time better. Priorities are backwards.
Works 16 hour days + 75 minutes with kids + time to exercise, prepare meals, eat, travelling, time with husband, showering and dressing = four, maybe five hours sleep a night max?
I suspect someone is overexaggerating her workload!
Agreed I just typed the same thing. She is full of it!
Not really. This isn’t the lay out of every day always. And who’s to say she doesn’t get on a treadmill while in the office and shower there too. Then there’s the meals and you can have much of that prepped to the side from maybe room service or a traveling chef.
I think you’re takinng her words and comparing it to your normal which could easily be out of context.
And her shoes are amazing! Well priced for the styles and materials while also being comfortable enough to wear for hours and not get sore walking.
I’m not a CEO, and I work 12 hours a day. My co-workers and counterparts in average have the similar working hours (it’s just the way it is in our field). I also sleep around 5 hours a day (except for the weekends). So no, I don’t think she’s exaggerating.
She seems like a great role model. Born (and married) into great wealth and privilege, and still hardworking as anyone can be. Duchess Lazy could definitely learn a thing or two from Ivanka Trump.
She is a lovely role model. Also ery involved with charities on a personal level. She could easily cut a check or have others deal with it, but she puts her time into them.
As another poster said. I can’t believe such a well rounded, hardworking woman came from such a terrible man with terrible sons.
And I am in love with her Wang wedding dress. Absolutely stunning and my all time favorite gown.
I completely get what she’s saying, as a mom who works outside the home. I don’t work 16 hr days, but I’m necessarily in a demanding field, and being a single mom who has to scramble to support my son, and who made a big career change in my 30s and had to start at the bottom, I still do have to put in a ton of hours. I don’t have the luxury of nannies etc. So I often work for a few hours from home after my son goes down for the night.
Exercise is definitely hard–I would feel super guilty taking time I could be with my son to go for a run. I mean, I really only get about 1.5 hrs in the morning (but that’s rushing, getting us both ready for the day) and then about 2 hrs in the evening with him. My weekends with him are 100% about him, and almost always include “fun” exercise together–riding bikes, going on a nature hike, swimming, anything I can do to get some activity in that we both enjoy.
On weeks when I have him full-time, though, it’s just not possible. Even assuming I would give up time in the mornings or evenings with him, how could I afford childcare while I went running or worked out? And to get to the Y (where there is childcare) either before or after work is (a) out of my limited single mom budget {and no, I don’t have cable or eat out more than 1X per month or go to Starbucks–I am bare bones and still paying off legal fees) and (b) I won’t keep my son up past his bedtime just so I can get my workout in. And he is in bed at 7:30 or he ends up tired and unhappy.
GAH! Sorry, y’all–TL;DR.
I guess I didn’t realize how much this subject kind of hits home for me. But I will tell ya–I *totally* do squats and lunges while I am o conference calls! 🙂
How does she work 16 hour days yet still see her kid? Work 6am to 10 pm. Keep daughter up late? Does she go home 6-7:30 then stay at work til midnight? I think she is totally exaggerating! Trying to make herself sound like a super mom.
Her daily dairy is posted to tumbler. She says this is a typical day in her life.
If we believe what she posted, then she’s spending 2-3hrs everyday during the week with her kids.
She wakes up at 5.45am
Breakfast and time with her kids 6.30am-8.00am
Daily phonecall home to check on the kids: 2.30pm-2.45pm
time with kids including tucking them into bed: 6.00pm-7.15pm
Bed time which includes a last feeding for her son is 11.45pm
I hate that we as women feel guilty that we have a career. There is nothing wrong with being hard working and ambitious and being a mom. Sure we have to juggle things, but if it’s important then you make the sacrifice. I know myself well enough and know that I am my happiest when I am working outside my home. I don’t spend sixteen hours away though and when I am home, I don’t take calls from work. I keep things separate.
What I’m saying^^^^
…and I don’t have kids but I’m not going to criticize women for wanting what men have had for centuries-WITHOUT the societal expectations or guilt that women have to deal with.
She’s said in the past that her husband helps a lot with the children. Isn’t that enough for people? Women can’t win, I swear….
16 hours is a long time to be away from your kids. I have no problem with women working but working 16 hours and hardly ever seeing your kids is neglectful in my opinion. Don’t have kids if you want to devote that much time to your career. Or find a job where you don’t need to work that many hours.
Kids are not house plants, you can’t just leave them in the corner and water them ever so often. They need parental attention, there are dire consequences when children do not have parental attention.
It’s not all about what’s best for women that’s important, it’s about what’s best for the children you are raising.
Sure. As long as you come to every thread about men who work 16 hours a day (and believe me there are a LOT of them) and lay down the same level of judgment.
This is my problem with your comment–it’s the inequality inherent in your statement, it’s the implication that women are more responsible for raising happy, healthy children than men are and I simply disagree…I disagree strongly. The burden actually shouldn’t lay squarely on the shoulders of mothers.
Why can’t women simply LIKE to work the way men do?
My boss is 82-years-old and worth over $80 million and he STILL comes into work every damn day. Why? Because he enjoys working. Women shouldn’t be forced to chose between having a family and having a job any more so than men, period, end of story.
I hear what you are saying TOK, but I also wish that the fact that women actually have the babies and for the first six months or so (usually) have a different relationship than anyone else could be part of the conversation without being damaging to view of women in the workplace.
The problem is that the next step from the logic that women and men are exactly the same in the workforce is that women should have minimal maternity leave, because men or really anyone can raise children. And while women should never be faulted for going back to work as soon as they want after birth, the fact is that for many they decide whether or not to go back to work when their bodies are still
surging with hormones, and that decision often has long-term repercussions. I hope as women take on more leadership roles in the workplace, there could be better solutions to the usually short-term problem (kids aren’t little that long) of women wanting to be out of the workplace short-term or working different hours or from home, etc.
All this said, I don’t understand at all why Ivanka is getting shade when the point of her quote is how important it is for her to ensure she has quality time with her kids.
I find it seriously depressing to look at some of the comments in this thread.
Apparently because she likes her job, she is not entitled to have children anymore. Funny I don’t remember to read any of these comments when referring to all the cheap celebrities that mostly use their children for fame whoring but that we can clearly imagine how much time they really spend with them. Why can’t it be important for her to be successful and still have a family? She has tons of money and I’m sure she can take some valuable time to be with her children, since she doesn’t have to do any of the mundane tasks that we (people without a taskforce behind) have to. She expresses exactly how important they are for her, even though she also focus on her career. Plus, as Kitten said, her husband seems to be very present, so they don’t sound like uninterested in their or unsupportive of their children. I really don’t get the problem.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s the same thing that motivates everyone at all times–people just want to feel “better than”. It’s empowering to disparage others for their life choices.
It goes beyond having just an opinion, there’s some serious shaming going on here.
I will never understand mom-shaming.
Neither do I. I think you have to be a mom to truly get mom-shaming.
Let me clarify my statement: Any parent male or female who wants to devote 16 hours a day to a career should reconsider having kids because they are putting their career before their kids.
Many parents work but try to balance work and family. These men and women should be commended. Working 16 hours a day is not balancing work and family.
This is not a women/men issue at all and not mom shaming. It’s a parent issue about what is best for the children.
I’m replying here because I can’t seem to reply anywhere else
I just care about children and hate to see children hurt by their parent(s) actions. No amount of money or nice nannies make up for children not having enough attention from a parent.
Parents reap what the sow though.
Growing up, I only saw my father a couple hours (IF that) every night before bed. He made time for us when he could on the weekends, family vacations, etc. He was an amazing father and I thank him every day for providing us with a great childhood.
Luckily, he never had to face the same level of scrutiny and was never questioned about his decision to have a job AND a family. He did a great job being an amazing male role model for my big brother and I. I guess all I can say is…maybe ease up on the judgement? Great parents come from all different backgrounds with all different lifestyles. Just because it doesn’t conform to YOUR *ideal* doesn’t mean it can’t work.
I know squat about this woman, but she looks SO PRETTY without all that makeup in the first picture!!! Wow. She should go au natural more often.
She and her family look great BUT why in every one of these interviews am I inundated with what celebrities eat. I get it, you ate lean proteins and vegetable to lose weight. F’ckng ground breaking stuff there.
I can’t help but like her. I started following her on Instagram a few months ago, and she actually seems pretty relatable. Sure she shows photos of her fabulous life and family, but it doesn’t feel like she’s bragging or showing off. She just seems very normal and down to Earth.,
I feel like she’s is setting herself up for some sort of working mom/ lean in/GOOP-tastic lifestyle brand. I guess what perplexes me is why people who choose to be devoted to their careers and openly say that spending time with their kids is “exhausting” continue to have MORE KIDS. Is it a marriage band aid? Status symbols? What’s the point?
Kids that age are exhausting, physically and mentally. As they get older and more independent, it becomes far less intense. And from her tone, it seems she adores them, even though they wear her out.
I will never understand the “we are modern women – we have to figure out how to make it work!” I’ve never heard a man expressing guilt over not spending time with his family and wanting to “figure it out” because he is “modern.” Men work hard but never feel guilty if they miss some points. They never say “we are modern men, we should figure out how to make it work!”
Women are so HARD on themselves it’s astonishing. They work, they have children, they work out, but they push themselves to give it all 100% all the time. And if they can’t they feel guilty! It’s absolutely insane.
You are right about women being so hard on themselves (and apparently, from this thread, on other women!). I do see men feeling guilty though, if they miss kid milestones/big events. But since they are “supposed” to work and most of their peers do, it only goes to a certain level.
How is this so different from what Gwyneth Paltrow said? She’s incredibly rich and still wants to work but finds it difficult to juggle her time between her job and kids. I don’t have a problem with either woman but it confuses me that everyone is commending her and wanted to punch Gwyneth in the face.
Gwyneth is at the gym every day at ten o’clock. That’s her schedule. Go read her article that time that gave her schedule. I died laughing. Her work is a little different. And when she goes off to do a movie once a year. She writes her cookboks at home.
Ivanka is in the corporate world and works long hours to keep up.
Yep. Goop got up with her kids and ate breakfast with them, dropped them off at school, came back home and ‘worked’ on her site for a couple hours, and then worked out until her kids get home from school. That’s HER day. Boring.
She’s really good on the Apprentice. She’s the brains in the family. Her brother pales in comparison to her on the show in just analyzing the situation or not as articulate as Ivanka.
I agree, she is so very smart. Didn’t she almost cure cancer? Apprentice, yes that makes peoples lives so much better in this world, doesn’t it? Kids don’t go hungry anymore, families have real health insurance, jobs are plentiful out there………………………………………………………….
yeah, i dunno. i don’t think i buy all that she’s trying to sell us.
She’s a self confessed workaholic, I think she has a realistic and refreshing view of parenthood. There’s always double standards when it is a mother expressing the same opinions fathers do all the time.
I also find it interesting that the view that a stay at home mom is the traditional and best if not only way to raise our children, considering that the mothers back in the day didn’t have time to do arts n craft or watch little Peggy’s dance recital. Those mothers had Work to do, canning, cleaning without swiffer and needlework. Kids played by themselves or with each other, or they helped out. It is great that parents can choose to be at home with their children and actually have time to spend “quality time” with them but let’s not pretend that is the traditional way.
“she found weekends with her daughter “exhausting” and harder than working at the office”
Ahahahah, interesting!! I appreciate the honesty!
But then why did she have kids in the first place? She seems like someone who lives for their work. It seems that she’s married to and the mother of her company. Everything else is just an accessory in her life, fully managed by someone else. She’s her father’s daughter through and through, no surprise. Probably has a complex how she’ll never be as good as him business-wise.
I guess business always comes first in the Trump family.
yeah, i don’t get that either. if you’d rather spend that much time working, obviously you’re not that interested in kids. so why bother having them?
Oh, please, Ivanka, get over yourself.
Life sounds so hard for you, being born into a very wealthy and well connected family, having Trump as a last name in New York must have been hard too, plus the education you had to pay for by working nights and weekends on top of your regular job.
And lets not forget the seed money you had beg for from the bank to start your business adventures.
16 hours a day, why bother having kids, if you barely see them and the nannies are the real mommies, you have enough money to work 8 hours a day, when they are grown, you will regret the time you didn’t spend with them while they were young.
Please for the life of me, ladies from prominent and wealthy families, could you please change it up a bit and instead of another set of shoes, clothes, jewellery, music, movies, books and other stuff we have too much in this world, please do something like, I don’t know start a research company into treatment of dementia or cancer or develop a better source of energy for our world.
Enough already with the superficial, I have a new shoe line or clothing line junk.
Don’t we have enough of materialistic junk now?????
LOVE THIS NYCgal!
Shoes? Really? That’s the best idea she could come up with?
Plus – what would have happened to her idea if she’d had to start at the bottom? Would all doors have opened for … more shoes?
LOL, well said girl
This! Thank you!
Trump Airhead! How hard must be to carry the famous business name Trump in NYC?
Must be so hard to get a great education without the huge debt, the nannies, the housekeeper, the lawyers,the secretaries, accountants…..and on and on….
I wonder how much time she spents with Goopy, if they don’t know each other they should!
No, Ivanka, another shoe line? Does the world need another celebrity shoe line? Really?
Is it worth spending 16 hours a day away from your young kids for one more shoe line that world doesn’t really need? Wouldn’t 8 hours be enough? Yes, with the Trump name life must be so very, very hard.
She’s trying to prove to her father she’s as capable as he is!! Even if it is just with pointless footwear!
Of course spending 16 hours a day with your stiletto management is more important than being a mother to your children, of course it is!
And she manages to have a tight bum too, wow, what a gal! What a life to envy!
NOT
She’s actually Executive Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at The Trump Organization.
But carry on with the shoe-screaming…
It is amazing the type of knee-jerk reaction people have without any room to allow for different personalities. I do admire her work ethic and for her to take advantage of all her advantages to carve herself a respectable position in such a cut throat world. That is admirable and makes me believe that she does try to take care of her kids as best she can, while in a field that requires such hours.
ORiginal Kitten: I’m with you in my frustrations that the posters today seem not to get it.
@Joy
Well, I do not admire a person who works 16 hours of the day in a job, unless they have too.
To make more money on top of a lot money is senseless to me, shows pure greed.
I also believe that there is too much junk produced already to fill an artificial need.
Now, do I not get it or is there room for different opinions?
Dear Ivanka,
If you are not friendly with Ms. Goop, please do it immediately. You can compare notes on the army of nannies, maids, housekeepers, gardeners, attorneys, personal trainers and the rest of your team. Plus you can debate your long work hours creating useless materialistic junk that is basically waste of peoples money. Thank you Ivanka, but I will rather pay extra on my mortgage or put money away for my retirement that is coming up in about 40 years.
I like the fact that she doesn’t just sit on her Trump rump and is a hard worker, but she needs to learn to delegate before she misses out on her kids’ childhood. Other people *can* do the work, it sounds like she’s got a touch of her dad’s control freak-ness.
It’s all about the balance, and she manages to delegate the raising of her children easily enough, and if she has time to make her pea soups, as she claims, her cook can make that and she can run/roll around on the floor playing with her babies for exercise.
Still, I like her okay, she seems pretty real for her unreal upbringing. Casting aspersions seems a bit off in her case, to me.
But, hey, I could be wrong, I don’t actually know the woman.
You’re right, nobody here knows her and we’re a bit overdoing it with the judgment. But honestly, what can you conclude about someone who freely admits that, despite having all the money in the world, they still put profit and money before family?? It just seems like there’s something off with her.
I’m not saying sit on your back and do nothing, but 16 hours a day?! Really?? People who are struggling to survive and bring up kids work as much because they are forced to. They’d give anything for the opportunity to be enough financially secure to work a normal shift, go home and enjoy the free time with their loved ones. She has that financial security and the opportunity to do so, yet she chooses to spend most of her life at work. Sorry, I can’t help but cast aspersions at that.
What is life all about to her? Making money? Is there really nothing more? I guess if you’re a Trump, there’s never enough of it.
Exactly.
I’m not buying her 16 hours a day sob story. She is plenty wealthy to work 8 hours a day.
I know people that have no choice, but to work very long hours to be able to pay their bills and support their children. They are not trying to build some stupid shoe line that the world can live happily without. Yes, we certainly don’t have enough shoes, right Ivanka?
Even dressed in comfy clothes with no makeup and her hair not done, Ivanka looks beautiful. She’s a classy, hard working woman.
I really admire her! And I get her guilt – there’s just not enough time in the day to do so much. I used to work 12-14 hour days and I was always exhausted by the time I got home, I admire her for being able to juggle so much and admitting it’s hard work!
16 hours a day? Jesus. Learn to delegate. If she were some poor working mom who had to hold down two jobs to keep a roof over her family’s head, I’d get it. But being as wealthy as she already is, and her husband comes from mega money too, why not pare down your job to just the essentials and spend that time with your two very young kids? It’s sad to me that those kids are with nannies for the majority of their waking hours.
OK, Ivanka, we get it.. you’re not a Trump princess and a useless tool like Paris Hilton, we get it. But you really, really don’t have to work 16 hrs a day to prove it. If I count correctly, with 16 hrs in the office you get about 8 hrs left in a day for everything else, including sleep. Babies are babies only for a very short time and unless you really don’t like to be with them, I see no reason for such a punishing schedule. If you’re a workaholic, seek help because this is not healthy for anyone, including yourself and you’ll pay for it in due time. I remember working 12 hrs a day when my son was little and I felt terrible about it. I generally like Ivanka but I think she’s trying to prove something and she shouldn’t.
Btw, I love that yoga photo. Nice living room.. soooo different from the typical Trump interior. I have same type of silhouettes of my kids at home 🙂