Ivanka Trump: A spoiled rich girl who wasn't born into a life of luxury.

Ivanka Trump is known as a beautiful, talented, and wealthy woman, and Donald Trump's trusted right-hand woman in the White House. However, before becoming the graceful and confident Ivanka she is today, she had a rather unpleasant past.

Ivanka's mother, Ivana, married Donald Trump in 1977. They had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. They divorced in 1992, when Ivanka was only 10 years old. Her parents' separation significantly affected her psychologically.

Despite the fact that his father married his mistress.Marla MaplA year after the divorce, Ivanka did everything she could to get his attention. She would visit her father on her way to school, or call him. And Mr. Trump almost always answered his daughter's calls.

However, he couldn't give Ivanka the same attention as before. Nikki Haskell, another family friend, said: "In Trump's heart, Ivanka will always be his favorite daughter. But he's only there when he can."

Meanwhile, Ivana didn't spend much time with her children either. Sometimes, she even threatened to put her up for adoption, which hurt and saddened Ivanka.

In the book Kushner Inc, released earlier this year, an anonymous friend revealed Ivanka Trump's feelings of loneliness growing up in a broken family. "A disconnected family life and a lack of parental attention put her in a vulnerable situation," the friend said.

Another friend of Ivanka's also shared a memory of taking her home to visit. This friend complained that her mother was too controlling and made a big deal out of everything. At the time, Ivanka said, "I wish my mother cared about me as much as you do."

At age 15, Ivanka enrolled in boarding school in Connecticut. According to the book Kushner Inc., she had to leave her girls' school in Manhattan, New York, because she skipped too many classes to work as a model. Ivanka said she modeled for Versace and Thierry Mugler because her mother made her pay her own phone bill.

On her first day of enrollment, the instructor at the boarding school was surprised to see Ivanka Trump step out of a white limousine alone. "She was beautiful, shy, and quiet. What I remember most is that there was no one there with her. It was very unusual," the instructor recounted in the book.Kushner Inc.

At her new school, Ivanka always felt lonely due to the lack of friends. In a 2007 interview with Marie Claire magazine, Ivanka said: "Going to boarding school felt like being in prison, while my friends in New York were all having fun."

Ivanka's father-in-law, Charles Kushner, said that his daughter-in-law had shared that she wanted to join their close-knit family because she had never experienced that feeling before.