Ivana Trump reveals how her divorce was and takes credit for raising her children
"I taught them the most important lessons in life: loyalty, honesty, integrity and unity," writes the first wife of the president of the United States in her new book.
Donald and Ivana Trump were married from 1977, they got married eight months after meeting in a club in New York, to 1992, a relationship from which the three oldest children of the president of the United States, Donald, Ivanka and Eric were born. Both starred in a hard and millionaire divorce, although for years they have shown to get along. The president even offered his first wife to be the United States ambassador to the Czech Republic, a position in her country of origin that she rejected, according to what he told last week in an interview for the American network CBS.
When her ex-husband has not served a year as president of the United States, Ivana Trump throws away the past and publishes the book Raising Trump [Raising Trump, in Spanish], in which she talks about what it was like to educate her three children. And now that they have taken center stage both in the family business and in the US Administration, she detracts from the New York tycoon in the process. In the pages of her book, which is published this Tuesday, who defines herself as a "mother lioness" assures that she was the one who taught her children "the most important lessons in life: loyalty, honesty, integrity and unit". "I think the credit for raising such great children belongs to me," she says. “I was in charge of raising them before our divorce, and I had full custody after we broke up. I made the decisions about her education, her activities, her travels, ”says Ivana in the book. Of course, she assures that her children are loyal to Donald Trump because he was and is a good father (the only point in favor that Hillary Clinton was able to say during one of the televised debates of the presidential race).
“Every day people ask me how I raised such great kids. They are amazed when I tell them that there was no magic in their upbringing. I was a hard and loving mother who taught them the value of a dollar, not to lie, cheat, steal, to respect others ”, relates the synopsis of the book. Reasons for which she is sure that Donald Trump is not going to be the only one of the family to live in the White House, and points directly to her daughter Ivanka, of whom in the book she remembers her anger when she appeared at home at age 14 with hair dyed blue. She also reveals other anecdotes, such as that her children traveled in economy class while she was in prime seats so as not to spoil them.
In her pages, he also recalls her childhood in Europe, her beginnings as a model, her role in the Trump empire during their years of marriage and the suffering infidelity caused her and her children. of the tycoon who ended the marriage. As she reveals, her eldest son Donald Jr did not speak with her father for a year after the separation. A separation that she was aware of was going to 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. Do you love him? ' I said, ‘Get lost. I love my husband. ' He was vulgar, but he was in shock, ”she writes. A year later, Marla Maples spoke of the New York mogul's infidelity in an interview in the New York Post titled The Best Sex I've Ever Had.
On the occasion of the presentation of the book, in which her three children have also participated, now Ivana is in full promotion in which she is shedding some details in addition to making statements that jump to the press at the moment. Asked on CBS why she does not get along with Marla Maples, an actress that Trump would become his second wife and who is the mother of his fourth daughter, and yes with Melania Trump, Ivana replied: “Because one is nobody and the other she is the first lady ”. This Monday, on the Good Moring America program she has claimed to have a phone number for the president, although she never dials it. “I don't want to generate any kind of jealousy or anything like that, because I'm basically Trump's first wife. Okay? I am the first lady ”, she has released. She although she has also ensured that she does not envy the current position of Trump's third wife. “I would hate Washington. […] I like my freedom".
It is not the first time that Ivana Trump, 68, starts writing (under her name she has three novels and a self-help book). But she now she has been encouraged to write this after feeling "proud" to see how her children behaved during the presidential election campaign in which Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States.
