Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump was born in Manhattan, New York City, on October 30, 1981.
Her parents divorced in 1992 when she was ten years old. She has two brothers, a half-sister, and a half-brother, all through her father.
Trump graduated from the boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 2000. She attended Georgetown University for two years before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2004 with a B.A. in economics.