Even though she is the stunning billionare daughter of Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump still juggles work with parenting her one-year old daughter, Arabella, and recently told the Dailymail that she hates the term "working mom" because in her opinion, "every woman's a working mom by definition."
Following in the footsteps of her successful father, Ivanka has launched a string of businesses - including her own fashion and diamond lines- and recently debuted her first perfume, simply called Ivanka Trump.
It may appear as though Ivanka has it all - fortune, fame, and family - but as she told Dailymail: "Having it all is relative. There are a lot of people whom one would assume have it all and are deeply unhappy and there are a lot of people whom one would think have very little and they're very content.
"With that said," Ivanka said. "Balance is one of those things we [women] always strive for, but it's seldom hard to accomplish because you would need a crystal ball to know what life's going to throw at you."
Ivanka calls her daughter Arabella her "top priority," and although she is often swamped with work, even in the middle of the night, she explained that "once you have a child it's a whole different level because you're never off [duty]!"
Ivanka describes her daughter as a very easygoing baby, whose personality "really showing through now in a fun way," causing her to realize how much she appreciates her own mother, Ivana Trump.
"[My mom] is the greatest, she's amazing," she said. "I think you appreciate your mother more once you become a mother yourself.
"All the things you spend you spend the early party of your life being critical of, the over-protectiveness, all of these elements you get for the first time," she said. "'I think it brings you closer, you understand that kind of love, that kind of obsession that you can really only have for your child."
Luckily, her Arabella is, in her opinion, a big difference from how she was as a baby.
"I was a little hell raiser!" she said. "If my next one's well behaved I'll try to have a third!"
Are Ivanka and her husband, publisher Jared Kushner, planning on extending their family and having more kids? Coming from a large family herself - three brothers and a sister - Ivanka admitted that if you had asked her "three years ago," she would have said that she wanted "three or four children." However, now that she's a busy working mama, she may have to hold off for a bit until she's ready for more kids.
"After having one child, I realized you really have to take it one step at a time! I need to make sure I can handle two and can be the type of mom I want to be while continuing to pursue my professional goals," she said.
As for her new perfume, Ivanka said she wanted a signature scent that would take her from "a morning meeting to the boardroom to dinner with [her] husband," as the real challenge for her was "finding a scent that exuded femininity and elegance and strength - all of these attributes combined needed to be transitional."
"I wanted something that was versatile and really lifestyle-orientated," she said. "Plus I wanted to create a very beautiful yet youthful floral base fragrance. There are so many on the market that feel very old fashioned, they feel a little bit dowdy and I wanted to create something young and effervescent than what traditionally has been on the market place."
Do you agree with Ivanka Trump's statement that all women are working mothers by definition? Tell us below in the comments!
