NEW YORK — Ivana Trump, the first wife of President Trump, is writing a memoir that will focus on the couple’s three children.
“Raising Trump” will be published Sept. 12, Gallery Books said Wednesday. According to Gallery, Ivana Trump is writing a story of “motherhood, strength and resilience” and also will reflect on her “childhood in communist Czechoslovakia, her escape from the regime and relocation to New York, her whirlwind romance, and her great success as a businesswoman.”
“As her former husband takes his place as the 45th president of the United States, his children have also been thrust into the media spotlight – but it is Ivana who raised them and proudly instilled in them what she believes to be the most important life lessons: loyalty, honesty, integrity and drive,” the statement reads.
Donald and Ivana Trump divorced in 1992 amid revelations that he had been having an affair with Marla Maples, who became his second wife. (They divorced in 1999 and six years later he married Melania Knauss.) Gallery is calling the book “nonpolitical,” and it’s also unlikely to be critical of the president, whose candidacy Ivana Trump supported. Her divorce from him included a nondisclosure agreement, and her children with him – Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric – are close to their father and are contributing memories to the book.
The three younger Trumps said in a statement that they were “excited” about “Raising Trump” and called Ivana an “amazing mom, teacher and inspiration to all of us.”
Ivana Trump has written “The Best Is Yet to Come: Coping With Divorce and Enjoying Life Again” and the novel “For Love Alone,” which led to a legal battle with her ex-husband.
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