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"FacebookPinterest\n\nOf course, all we want to know about when we first show up to meet The Ivanka are those two enormous new\u2026Trump towers in Dubai. She intuits this, The Ivanka does, instantly whipping out photos and blueprints. \u201CHey, Darcy?\u201C she says to her secretary. \u201CCould you bring in that one-pager on our projects?\u201C Darcy appears with a huge glossy poster. \u201CThese are just some of our projects,\u201C says Ivanka. \u201CI have thirty-three projects under my direct control. All over the world. My first week here\u2014I started the Tuesday after Labor Day, and I was on a plane the following Tuesday to Dubai, to negotiate a deal for our towers. We literally locked ourselves in a conference room for three days, and we negotiated a deal to build seventeen towers. It\u2019s so exciting!\u201C There\u2019s the Ivanka-led projects in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Hawaii. This one, a ninety-two-story one in Chicago, will be the tallest residential building in the world. \u201CAnd this one,\u201C she says, \u201Cwas actually slated to be 150 stories and the largest building in the world, but the commercial market in Chicago went to shit.\u201C\n\nShe continues on like this. It\u2019s nine in the morning, and she\u2019s been at it since five thirty. (This is a woman who once scheduled a photo shoot for six in the morning so she wouldn\u2019t be late for work.)\n\n\u201CPeople say we\u2019re, like, the kings and queens of superlatives,\u201C she says. \u201CBut we do believe everything\u2019s the Best and the Greatest and the Tallest and the Biggest.\u201C Well, definitely the biggest.\n\nShe is drop-dead gorgeous, even sitting at her desk in a short (but buttoned-up) gray shirt-dress that the designer Kay Unger sent her (\u201CNow I\u2019m getting all this stuff\u201C) and that, on anyone else, might actually look buttoned-up. Much has been made of the rack\u2014just Google \u201CIvanka Trump\u201C and \u201Cboobs\u201C to see what we mean\u2014but the stems (she\u2019s five eleven) are equally impressive. When she stands, her legs just go on and on and on\u2026\n\nAs does The Ivanka. In our first ten minutes together, she produces sketches and photos for Trump properties all over the planet, her plan for global domination in the real estate market, and an unprompted defense of all things Trump. Her new job with her dad is vice president of development and acquisitions.\n\nShe is 25.\n\n\u201CYou know, people sometimes call my father cocky or egomaniacal.\u201C (No. Your father? Get out!) \u201CThey use these sort of attributes, but I don\u2019t know anyone who\u2019s successful like him who isn\u2019t cocky, who doesn\u2019t have a big ego. To me, that\u2019s negative only when you\u2019re a braggart and you\u2019ve got nothing to show for it. He has to believe every building he\u2019s doing is the best building he\u2019s ever done. That\u2019s important to us. Like, that\u2019s our vision as a company. If we didn\u2019t view it as the best, we shouldn\u2019t be building it. And that\u2019s how we look at, you know, all the stuff we do.\u201C\n\nShe takes a breath\u2026then launches into a plan for the next phase of the Trump empire. Her father, she explains, doesn\u2019t like to travel, never did. He was basically content dominating New York City. But the new generation of Trumps\u2014Ivanka and her two brothers Donald Jr. and Eric\u2014has no problem jetting off to places like Dubai. \u201CWith our branding as strong as it is, the only thing that limits what we can build is gravity and imagination.\u201C Another (very brief) pause. \u201COur mission is to take the brand international and global and really grow it, not only outside of New York but outside of America and really around the world\u2026\u201C And so on. This mission is why she is starring in The Apprentice this season, she explains. \u201CI\u2019m not a clone, and I\u2019m not a minion. But I really believe I have this incredible opportunity to take a brand that\u2019s so strong\u2014and it\u2019s so strong because of him\u2014and take it to the next level. That\u2019s why I did The Apprentice. That has been, like, a great vehicle for us. But I have no interest in being a \u0091television star.\u2019 \u201C She utters the phrase with great disdain. \u201CI\u2019ve been asked to do all sorts of other shows\u2014you know, stupid stuff\u2014but ultimately they do nothing for the brand. They do nothing to advance my ultimate goal of becoming a great developer.\u201C\n\nThis is perhaps not the best time to ask whether the boobs are real.\n\nAnd anyway: Embrace it. This isn\u2019t Paris Hilton or any of the other tabloid twits. This is an American heiress who does not \u201Cdance on tables without underwear,\u201C as Ivanka herself puts it. Who graduated summa cum laude from Wharton! Who actually works for a living!\n\n\u201CI look at my brothers and myself and I\u2019m, like, really proud of the fact that nobody\u2019s, like, totally fucked-up. Nobody\u2019s a drug addict, nobody\u2019s driving around chasing women, snorting coke. There\u2019s something amazing about that. And you know, this isn\u2019t to pat myself on the back, but I could be a lot worse.\u201C\n\nIvanka also wants me to know that she only does interviews if she thinks it is going to \u201Cadvance the brand.\u201C Much discussion ensues over what she will and won\u2019t do for publicity. She doesn\u2019t like \u201Cto be shadowed\u201C by a writer. She\u2019s not \u201Can entertainer.\u201C She\u2019s doing Leno next week, but \u201Cthat\u2019s not really me.\u201C (It\u2019s brand advancement.) What is her: presiding over real estate deals. But: \u201CI hate having people sit in on meetings. And obviously I can\u2019t have you in a deal negotiation, because then people will posture and make my life more difficult than it is. But we\u2019ll figure it out,\u201C she coos, in that voice that is both sultry and ber-confident.\n\nWell, okay, I can go to her next meeting, only because Darcy already promised, but that really isn\u2019t what she\u2019s about, either. She is meeting with six women and a man named Moshe to plan the launch of the Ivanka Trump line of diamond jewelry. (The studs in her ears, the ice around her neck, the diamond bracelet? All part of the collection.) At the meeting, she seems distracted by her BlackBerry and a little bored\u2014picking out the right shade of coral for the gift bos doesn\u2019t compare to building skyscrapers in Dubai. \u201CI have to sort of approve all of the designs, and I want to make sure it\u2019s consistent with my aesthetic, but, you know, the reason why I\u2019m doing it is, I see an opportunity from an entrepreneurial standpoint.\u201C\n\nIn the next week, she will go on Leno in a dress that will leave nothing to the imagination, gravity-wise, and she will go on Jimmy Kimmel, where the other guest, Andy Dick, will get thrown off the stage, midshow, for pawing her. (Kimmel: \u201CDonald Trump will kill both of us!\u201C) The Ivanka does what she has to do to keep the good Trump brand intact.\n\n\u201CWe have this ability,\u201C she says, crossing and uncrossing her legs, \u201Cthat other developers don\u2019t have, to generate an incredible amount of media, which translates into enormous amounts of promotion for each of our projects. Just by the celebrity aspect. Like, last weekend in Florida, I shot the cover of Atlanta Peach Magazine. Why did I do it?\u201C\n\nYes, why did you do it?\n\n\u201CBecause we\u2019re building a building, two residential towers, in Atlanta. So, I said, \u0091Yes, BUT: under the condition that you also run renderings of the building.\u2019 You can\u2019t buy that kind of coverage.\u201C\n\nDarcy interrupts. There is breaking news on a gossip Web site: Ivanka has come in second as \u201Cthe best person to date.\u201C\n\n\u201CWow,\u201C says Ivanka. \u201CUh, who\u2019s number one?\u201C\n\nThat would be Mandy Moore.\n\nIvanka raises an eyebrow. \u201CDarcy, don\u2019t I give you anything to do? Why are you playing on the Internet?\u201C\n\n\u201CI\u2019m doing research for you!\u201C says Darcy.\n\n\u201CAh, okay,\u201C says Ivanka. \u201CI guess I\u2019m the number two person to date.\u201C\n\nShe thinks about this.\n\n\u201CWait a minute. Trumps aren\u2019t second.\u201C\n\n\n\nIt was inevitable, really. Of course The Ivanka would end up in the family business\u2014poised to run the whole freakin\u2019 empire someday. \u201CI\u2019ve known since I was born what I wanted to do,\u201C she says. Since you were born? \u201CPretty close. I can\u2019t remember ever wanting to do anything else. Ever. Not even as a little kid. I feel like somehow I\u2019m genetically programmed.\u201C\n\nHer father, of course, has his own take on this. \u201CLook, she was born into a very good situation,\u201C says The Donald. \u201CShe was fortunate to be very pretty. That, you have to be a little bit lucky with. But I think she always had in mind that she wanted to prove she could really do something very special in life, as opposed to just sitting back and relaxing. Which she could have done.\u201C\n\nIt\u2019s not hype that Donald has given his daughter an enormous amount of responsibility at a very tender age. Yes, she\u2019s his kid, but as anyone who\u2019s ever dealt with Trump knows, if she weren\u2019t up to the job, he\u2019d cut her off at the knees. \u201CFor years, I do my own deals,\u201C says The Donald. \u201CAnd they work out, always. But then I found myself, about a year ago, all of a sudden, as deals come in that are very important, I\u2019m saying, \u0091Let Don and Ivanka handle it.\u2019 I never did that before,\u201C he says, somewhat amazed that he\u2019s actually doing it now. \u201CI\u2019m letting them do things. I\u2019m watching, but I\u2019m letting them do things. I mean, I knew my children were competent. I just never knew that they were this competent.\u201C\n\nOne of Trump the father\u2019s greatest joys is when one of his business associates underestimates his smokin\u2019 daughter. \u201CI think they do that a lot because of her age and because of her looks. When you look like that and you\u2019re young, you know, I could see some of my killer friends just licking their chops, right? But the fact is, they come back later and they say, \u0091Man, that was a lot different than I thought.\u2019 \u201C\n\nPeople who know the Trumps\u2014and like the Trumps\u2014will tell you that Ivanka got the best of both parents. From her father, she got the drive, the bluster, the pathological ambition, the balls. From her mother, Ivana: the drive, the bluster, the pathological ambition, the balls (plus the ability to do it all in stilettos). \u201CMy parents are shockingly similar,\u201C Ivanka says. As a little girl, she\u2019d tag along with her dad as he went to his construction sites\u2014punch-listing items and barking orders. \u201CThere was nothing like it,\u201C says Ivanka. \u201CIt was awesome!\u201C But her mother was equally impressive. Ivanka remembers a day when she was 6 or 7 years old and she took the helicopter with Mom down to Atlantic City, when her mother was running the Trump Castle Casino. \u201CI remember this so clearly. We had just gotten off the helicopter, and we were walking into the lobby, and there was this sort of\u2014well, the whole ceiling was just this continuous chandelier, basically. I mean, thousands and thousands of lights. And she walked in, and I swear, she didn\u2019t even look up. She just points to the general manager and goes, \u0091There\u2019s a lightbulb missing.\u2019 \u201C Ivanka smiles. \u201CI was in awe.\u201C\n\n\n\nA few nights after I meet Ivanka in her office, she invites me to her apartment on Park Avenue\u2014in a building that is, of course, called Trump Park Avenue. \u201CI choose to live in a Trump building,\u201C says Ivanka. She\u2019s still a little testy about the New York Post item that her $1.5 million apartment was a \u201Cgift\u201C from her father. \u201CFirst of all, my father\u2019s a businessman. I mean, he\u2019s not gifting me anything. He\u2019d have to pay a gift tax, which would be a third of the property\u2019s value.\u201C So how does it work? \u201CI have a mortgage!\u201C Like, duh. Payable to the bank of Donald Trump, but still. Did she also negotiate the price with him? \u201COf course. He\u2019d be disappointed if I didn\u2019t.\u201C\n\nIvanka\u2019s pad is tasteful, a little quirky, unpretentious. She\u2019s into blue\u2014Tiffany blue in the den, robin\u2019s egg in the bedroom, a blue-glass chandelier that she picked up at a consignment shop in Greenwich\u2014with an occasional splash of red, and a coral bathroom that matches the stationery from the Ivanka Diamond collection. Her bed is a big white canopy from which a dozen black dresses and a sweatshirt hang. \u201CI made this piece,\u201C she says, pointing to the nightstand. \u201CIt\u2019s literally plywood that I covered with fabric. Really cheap.\u201C Underneath her bed is her wheelie-luggage, which she kicked under there when the doorbell rang.\n\nShe has been awake for two days straight. Flew in on the red-eye from L.A. this morning after taking meetings and doing Leno, landed at five, came home, showered, went straight to the office to meet \u201Cwith partners who had flown in from all over the world,\u201C and has to be back in L.A. tomorrow \u201Cto announce a new deal out on the West Coast.\u201C She left some of her stuff back at the Beverly Hills Hotel but still has to pack all over again. \u201CI can\u2019t even think about it,\u201C she says. \u201CIt\u2019s causing me severe anxiety. I\u2019m always packing or unpacking. I\u2019m very meticulous in the way I do things, so I use layers of tissue paper. You can\u2019t tell that I\u2019m, like, very anal?\u201C\n\nShe pours a couple of glasses of water and sits, barefoot, with her legs curled up on the couch in the den. There is a table that unfolds to play bridge, an old Dell laptop (\u201CI\u2019m pretty basic\u201C), and dozens of framed photographs of her friends, her brothers, and her parents. She is wearing pencil-thin pants and a low-cut charcoal blouse, tight at the waist, showing plenty of boob. Even with no sleep, she looks exquisite. You want to stab her. The porcelain skin, the blond hair upswept in the kind of ponytail that looks deliberately nondeliberate. (Mercifully, she inherited her mother\u2019s hair, not The Donald\u2019s.)\n\n.\n\nIt is time to talk about chick stuff. Let\u2019s start with dating.\n\n\u201CI\u2019m worried that this is gonna sound arrogant,\u201C says Ivanka, \u201Cbut I love flirting right now.\u201C (She doesn\u2019t mean right now.) \u201CI\u2019ve never been at a place in my life where I\u2019ve felt, quite frankly, sexier and more comfortable with my body. And sort of more in touch with myself. Generally, my self-esteem on every level is probably at a peak. So in a dating situation, I found out I\u2019m a pretty good flirt.\u201C She giggles. Yes, she does. \u201CThat I know how to do it rather well. I just went from one really long relationship to another really long relationship,\u201C and when you\u2019re in those long relationships, says Ivanka, \u201Cyou don\u2019t, like, flex those sort of feline muscles.\u201C\n\nWhat does The Ivanka look for in a man?\n\n\u201CI like very strong guys. Successful guys. Not necessarily financially. But that said, I\u2019m not one of those people who would be with somebody who didn\u2019t have their finances in order, because that\u2019s not a way to live. I\u2019m just not interested in that. I\u2019m not interested in paying for anyone. Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.\u201C\n\nHer cell phone rings. \u201CSorry.\u201C Deal closing in God-knows-where.\n\nBut as she was saying. She\u2019s had two really long relationships. Both lasted almost four years. The most recent was with the socialite Bingo Gubelmann.\n\nBingo?\n\n\u201CWell, James.\u201C\n\nDid you call him Bingo?\n\n\u201CEveryone called him Bingo. That was his name, sort of.\u201C\n\nAnd the one before that?\n\n\u201CGreg.\u201C\n\nWhat did Greg do?\n\n\u201CNothing. We were in college. It was actually a little before college.\u201C\n\nAre you still friends with them?\n\n\u201CUm, I am. It\u2019s difficult being friends with an ex. I marvel at how people do it so seamlessly.\u201C\n\nWho? We discuss whether there are degrees between violent death and friendship.\n\n\u201CYeah, there definitely are. But\u2026I\u2019ve never cheated on anyone. And nobody\u2014to the best of my knowledge, but I\u2019m pretty confident in that\u2014has cheated on me. There\u2019s never been, you know, name slinging, hatred. It\u2019s more, \u0091That\u2019s it, we\u2019re done.\u2019 I think both relationships ran their course. They just got to a point where we weren\u2019t making each other happy any longer. I believe in fighting for a relationship. But you know what? It shouldn\u2019t be that difficult at this age. If you can\u2019t be happy at this age, when you\u2019re young and in love, you\u2019re not gonna be happy in twenty years. I definitely believe in, like, cutting losses, moving on.\u201C She smiles. \u201CThat said, I\u2019m a romantic. Like, I can\u2019t wait to get married and have a bunch of little brats.\u201C\n\nIvanka was only 9 when her family became tabloid fodder, when the world found out that her father was cheating on her mother, Ivana, with Marla Maples. She would go to elementary school, and the paparazzi would be waiting for her outside. Her father and his mistress were on the cover of the New York Post almost every morning. \u201CYou know, the media is vicious, they\u2019re brutal\u2014present company excluded.\u201C She smiles. \u201CBut I would go to school and have hordes of photographers standing outside my classrooms when I\u2019d be leaving, asking me, \u0091So is it true that Marla said that your father was the best sex she\u2019d ever had?\u2019 And I\u2019d be like, \u0091Marla? Who? What?\u2019 So you build up a certain callousness, and that\u2019s good. If I didn\u2019t have that lesson, I don\u2019t know that I\u2019d be tough. It taught me not to trust anyone. You can never let your guard down, and I never really have since that time.\u201C\n\nSo how does she really feel about the wives that came after her mother?\n\n\u201CWell, Melania\u2019s been around for a long time,\u201C she says of the third Mrs. Trump, whose photographs\u2014with Donald, looking like a tricked-out Princess Di\u2014are plastered all over the building that Ivanka works in. \u201CI sort of first met Melania when I was a sophomore in boarding school. It\u2019s been that many years. They\u2019ve been married a short period of time, but they were dating for maybe six years before they got married. I think any of the ill will I had towards the females in my father\u2019s life\u2026 Well, there were multiple events.\u201C\n\nShe is making a decision about whether she wants to go there. She does.\n\n\u201CYou know, the situation with Marla was very tricky. I mean, I will never totally forgive her. I think she\u2019s a fine person, and I love my little sister [Tiffany]\u2014I get along with her tremendously well. I think she looks up to me, and I shower her with love. I just love her. But you know, it\u2019s not an easy situation.\u201C A pause. \u201CLike, I will never\u2014I would feel like, if I didn\u2019t harbor some iota of, I don\u2019t want to say ill will, but if I fully embraced Marla, I\u2019d almost feel like I\u2019d be being disloyal to my mother. So I can never let that go. I\u2019ll always know what the situation was. But that said, Marla was also very kind to us. Melania didn\u2019t do anything to my family. She didn\u2019t affect our family unit. Her presence wasn\u2019t the reason why my mother and father weren\u2019t together. You know? So it was much easier for me to accept her.\u201C\n\nIt\u2019s getting late, and Ivanka has to pack for L.A.\n\nBut there was just one other thing\u2026or two.\n\nI wuss out asking her flat out about the boobs. Because the truth is, she has this ability\u2014which no doubt serves her well at the negotiating table\u2014to command respect, to intimidate the shit out of you, to make you feel like an idiot to bring up anything so frivolous as whether she had her boobs done.\n\nInstead, I ask if she reads all the blogs about herself.\n\nNot anymore, says Ivanka. \u201CIt\u2019s somewhat masochistic to do that. Like, there is a surround of anonymity now where people are sooo brutal. And it\u2019s not even the bloggers; it\u2019s the people who comment. It\u2019s just, like, crazy. But they\u2019re so\u2014they can be so mean, so I don\u2019t read it anymore. I just can\u2019t. I\u2019m in a place where I feel very good about myself. And you read that, and it\u2019s hard not to feel bad about yourself. They say terrible things.\u201C\n\nHere\u2019s my opening: \u201CThey\u2019re obsessed about your breasts.\u201C\n\n\u201CYeah,\u201C says Ivanka. \u201CThis is, like, the recent obsession.\u201C\n\nWhat\u2019s up with that?\n\n\u201CI don\u2019t even want to talk about it,\u201C says Ivanka. \u201CI think it\u2019s absurd. I\u2019ve always had a chest.\u201C She laughs. \u201CI heard something that I went to Mexico. First of all, who the hell goes to Mexico to do that?\u201C (Especially if you live on Park Avenue.) \u201CThat\u2019s very strange. The only thing I\u2019m doing in Mexico is building buildings. We just announced a new project there\u2026\u201C\n\nOkay, forget the Mexico thing. But is a boob job something\u2014\n\n\u201CIt\u2019s just, like, it\u2019s crazy. It\u2019s stupid to me. Like, I\u2019m a curvy person. I always have been. No, that\u2019s not true. When I was like 15, I was really wiry. But I have hips, I have a body. I\u2019m a woman, you know?\u201C\n\nBut even if you did?\n\n\u201CYou know what? I have no problem with that kind of stuff. I think people should do exactly what they want. And you know, I would have no problem owning up to it. It\u2019s just\u2014it just seems, like, beneath me to talk about it. It\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s just ugly. It\u2019s just a subject I think is silly.\n\n\u201CI like my form. I have a little waist, I have hips, I have a chest. I feel like I have a body that\u2019s more of a female figure, how the female form is supposed to look. And frankly? I\u2019ve never had more interest from the opposite sex. But now I\u2019m gonna have to throw you out,\u201C says Ivanka. She has to pack, has to go make deals, has to take over the universe.\n\nAnd she will."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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