She still can’t say Marla‘s name.
Ivana Trump says her daughter Ivanka is fine with stepmom First Lady Melania Trump — but don’t ask the president’s first wife about his other former spouse.
“[Ivanka] likes [Melania] fine — because she didn’t cause me to break up the marriage like the other one — I don’t even want to pronounce her name,” Ivana told The Atlantic in an interview published Friday.
Ivana was referring to President Trump’s mistress-turned-second-wife Marla Maples.
Still, while Ivana said her daughter is “fine” with Melania, a source close to Ivanka said Ivanka and Melania “have a desire to be mutually respectful” — but their relationship definitely is not an “affectionate” one.
Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for Ivanka, said both have “always shared a close relationship and still do today.”
Donald Trump married Ivana Trump in 1977. They divorced in 1992 following a public feud between Ivana and Marla Maples, who he had been seeing since 1989.
The then-businessman and TV personality married Maples in 1993, only to divorce her in 1999. He married Melania in 2005, and their 13-year-old son Barron was born in 2006, just over 10 years before Donald Trump was elected president.
Both Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner serve as presidential advisers.