Ivanka Trump reveals surprising new arrangement living with her grandmother in Florida: It’s a ‘privilege’

First daughter Ivanka Trump opened up about her life in a recent video interview on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast — sharing in no uncertain terms that her extended family is the foundation of her life.

Trump, 44, spoke about her mother, Ivana Trump, calling her an “incredible trailblazer” who exemplified “strength and resilience and glamor and determination and ambition” — and she also talked about her grandmother.

Ivana Trump was born in 1949 in the Czechoslovak town of Gotwaldov, which had just been renamed by the Communists in 1948.

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President Donald Trump and Ivana Trump were married in 1977 and had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.

Partners in both love and business — with Ivana Trump playing the role as manager of one of his Atlantic City casinos — the Trump couple had the see-and-be-seen sights of New York before their high-profile divorce in the early 1990s.

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By then, Donald Trump had met his second wife, Marla Maples.

Ivanka Trump said of her mother, “She was very much to herself, and she was very cheerful.

Trump added, “She showed me a lot at a time when there weren’t many women doing what my mother was doing inside the boardroom and on construction sites.”

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Ivana Trump enthusiastically supported her ex-husband’s 2016 White House run and told the New York Post in 2016 that he was both a supporter and an adviser.

Ivanka Trump has described her mother as “an incredible role model for what is possible for me…. She taught me so much about bringing purpose to what you do.”

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He shared that Ivana Trump influenced his own approach to parenting, adding that “she also says she can’t do it alone, and she doesn’t pretend she can.”

Ivanka Trump said her parents did a good job of keeping her and her siblings grounded.

She said that even in the midst of her father’s high-profile life, he never picked up her phone once.

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“There was never a doubt in my mind that I was his top priority and that he was available to me,” she said.

Ivanka Trump became visibly emotional at several points in the interview, pausing to compose herself as she reflected on her mother’s sudden death at home in New York City in 2022 at the age of 73 after a fall.

She said that after her mother’s death, she spent time studying her life to better understand herself. “I understand her better today than I did in some ways in her life. I see her more fully,” she said.

“She lived a good life,” Ivanka Trump added.

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He also talked about his grandmother, Marie Zelnikova, on the podcast — pointing out that she was a fixture in his life and now lives with him and her family in Florida.

While Ivanka Trump credits both her mother and father for shaping her into the person she is today, she said, “Grandma and grandpa on my mother’s side really raised us.”

She called her grandmother “incredibly nurturing” and said she was “blessed” to have her in her home.

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“She taught me a kind of unconditional love and tenderness,” Trump said.

“It’s an experience for me and my children [of being] It’s an extraordinary privilege to be there for him in no small part as he’s been there for me.”

“For him, food was very much an expression of love,” he added.

Fox News Digital’s Kelly McGreal and Adam Sabbs contributed reporting.

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