Donald and Ivana Trump at the US Open in 1997. Photo Reuters
Donald and Ivana Trump they have been married since 1977they married eight months after they met in a club in New York, until 1992, a relationship that gave birth to the three eldest children of the president of the United States, Donald, Ivanka and Eric.
They both arranged a hard and millionaire divorce, even if for years they had made a show of getting along. The former president also offered his first wife to be US ambassador to the Czech Republic, her position in her country of origin that she refused, according to an interview for the American network CBS years ago.
When her ex-husband hadn’t even served a year as president of the United States, Ivana Trump published the book Raising Trumps (Raising the Trumps, in Spanish), in which he talks about what it was like to raise his three children. And after gaining prominence in both the family business and the US administration, he took credit away from the New York tycoon in the process.
In the pages of his book, released in 2017, who defines himself as a “lion mother” He assured that he was the one who taught his children “the most important lessons in life: loyalty, honesty, integrity and unity”.
Donald Trump and Ivana Trump at the 1997 US Open in New York. AP Photo
Sons
“I think the credit for raising such wonderful children belongs to me,” she said.
“I was in charge of raising them before our divorce and I had full custody after our breakup. I made the decisions about his upbringing, his activities, his travels”, Says Ivana in the book. Of course, she has ensured that her children are loyal to Donald Trump because he was him and he is a good father.
“Every day, people ask me how I raised such amazing children. They are amazed when I tell them there was no magic in their upbringing. I was a tough and loving mother who taught them the value of a dollar, not to lie, cheat, steal, to respect others, “she said.
Ivana Trump in 2006. Photo Reuters
Reasons why I was sure Donald Trump he will not be the only one in the family to live at the White House, and pointed directly to his daughter Ivanka, whose anger in the book is recalled when at the age of 14 she appeared in the house with her hair dyed blue. She also revealed other anecdotes, such as her children traveling in economy class while she was in first class seats so as not to spoil them.
infidelity
In his pages he recalls his childhood in Europe, his beginnings as a model, their role in the Trump empire during their marriage years and of suffering caused to her and her children by the infidelity of the tycoon who ended the marriage. As revealed, his eldest son Donald Jr went a year without speaking to his father after the split.
Ivana Trump with her children Ivanka and Eric, in 1993. AP Photo
A separation she was aware of would take place in December 1989, as she recounts in one of the episodes: “A blonde woman came up to me out of nowhere and said: “I’m Marla and I love your husband. You love him?’ I told him: ‘Get lost. I love my husband’. He was vulgar, but I was shocked, “he wrote.
A year later, Marla Maples spoke about the infidelity of the New York tycoon in an interview with the new york post titled Best sex I’ve ever had.
This was not the first time that Ivana Trump started writing (under her name she has three novels and a self-help book).
Source: Clarin