"I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill." -Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Marie Trump (born October 30, 1981 in New York City, New York) is an American fashion model and businesswoman, best known as the daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump and is currently vice president of Real Estate Development and Acquisitions at the Trump Organization.
Education
Trump attended Choate Rosemary Hall, as well as Chapin. After graduation, she spent two years at Georgetown University, then transferred to and graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of science in economics in 2004.
Modeling
Her first cover was a 1997 issue of Seventeen. Since then she has made her way down fashion runways for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler. She has done ad campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger and Sassoon Jeans and was featured on the cover of Stuff magazine in August 2006.
TV appearances
In 1997, she hosted the Miss Teen USA Pageant.
Trump gained fame in 2003 when she was featured in Born Rich, a documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's most affluent families.
During an April 2006 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Trump said that she and former boyfriend Bingo Gubelmann had broken up, yet they remain good friends. Leno commented that he could hear her father's influence and inflections in her. David Letterman also made a similar comment when she appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on April 24, 2007.
Trump was a featured guest-judge on Project Runway Season 3.
The Apprentice
In 2006, she filled in for Carolyn Kepcher on five episodes of her father's television program The Apprentice 5, first appearing to help judge the Gillette task in week 2.She has already appeared on several episodes with her brother, Donald Jr., with Donald Sr. referring to his two children as "two true Apprenti [sic]". Like Kepcher, Trump visited the site of the tasks and spoke to the teams, asking them pointed questions. She also evaluated contestants in the boardroom, pointing out critical errors and rebutting excuses they offered for losing the tasks. Though initially unsympathetic to the contestants, Trump later said,
"whenever I see their breakdowns, I understand. They go virtually 24 hours a day, and each task takes about three days. Unless they win, they don’t get a day off...It’s an incredible amount of work..
Trump replaced Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge, beginning with Season 6 of The Apprentice.
Trivia
* In the September 2006 issue of Stuff magazine, Trump named Joaquin Phoenix as a "big celebrity crush," and described Christian Bale as "a sort of Adonis".
* Before working for her father, Ivanka worked for Forest City Enterprises.
* She had been offered to appear in The Bachelorette, but she declined.
* She does not consider herself as an 'heiress' and does not like being compared with Paris Hilton.
* Placed #83 in the 2007 Maxim Hot 100.
Quotes
* "You did a good job in implementing an ultimately bad design." — to Allie Jablon and Roxanne Wilson, Week 14, The Apprentice 5
* "I [am a] much more private [person than my father] — never loved the spotlight all that much. Except for my brief — perhaps a mistake — modeling stint to break up the monotony of boarding-school existence."
