Ivanka Trump on how Donald is clueless when it comes to changing diapers, but dotes on his granddaughter 'all the time'
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Ivanka Trump has opened up about what her billionaire father is like as a grandfather.
The heiress and mother to 20-month-old Arabella Rose, revealed that while Donald Trump Sr is an expert in the boardroom, he is less clued up when it comes to kids.
She explained to Redbook magazine that he 'wouldn’t know what to do' if a child was 'crying or needed a diaper change', but added in his defence that he dotes on his granddaughter 'all the time.'
Family matters: Ivanka Trump has opened up about what her billionaire father, Donald, is like as a grandfather
Donald Trump, 66, whose net worth is $3.2 billion as of March, according to Forbes, has five children, from three different women, who range from 35 to seven years old.
He also has a total of five grandchildren; four from his son Donald Jr and his wife Vanessa and one from his daughter Ivanka and her businessman husband Jared Kushner.
While he is known for being a brash businessman, Mr Trump Sr prides himself on being a devoted family man.
'I've always had a great relationship with my children,' he affirmed on David Letterman's late night talk show last week.
Close bond: Ivanka said that she speaks to her father at least 50 times a day
And Ivanka, 31, who is from his first marriage to former Czech model Ivana, backed him up.
'He was always a great father in that he was always there,' she recalled.
She said that her relationship with him today is stronger than ever, especially now that she is involved in the family business and has a role on his NBC reality show The Apprentice.
'If we talked a lot before, we speak 50 times a day now. I spend half the time in his office. Its wild,' the mother-of-one said.
She also devotes much of her time to running her eponymous jewelry and fashion business.
Asked if she suffers from 'mom guilt' as a working mother, Ivanka said that she does everyday.
Apple of her granddad's eye: Ivanka Trump explained that Donald dotes on his granddaughter, Arabella Rose, 'all the time' - but he wouldn't know what to do if she started crying or needed her diaper changing
'Every morning I’m so sad to leave Arabella. But it’s important for me to continue what I’m doing.
'It’s fulfilling to me, and I think it makes me a better mom when I’m home.'
She said that she 'hates' the expression 'working mom' because it implies that a mother who stays at home does not work.
And she admitted that looking after her daughter is 'far more difficult than anything I do in the office.'
Cover star: Ivanka Trump fronts the April 9 issue of Redbook magazine
While her father is press friendly, Ivanka prefers to protect her private life and carefully selects what information she shares with fans.
'People ask all the time, "Oh, can we take photographs of you and your closet?" No. That feels voyeuristic in a way that I don’t feel comfortable with.
'I’m very active on social media, but you don’t see me tweet a photo of Jared and me lying in bed on Sunday morning.
'I don’t want to see other people lying in bed on a Sunday morning; why would someone want to see me?'
Indeed most of her Twitter pictures feature herself and her daughter Arabella at business events or on holiday.
Over the past week she has uploaded images from trips to the San Diego Zoo and Legoland in California.
'I don’t let people into things that are too private,' she said. Ivanka, her husband and their daughter reside in a ten-bedroom penthouse on New York's Park Avenue.
For more from the Ivanka Trump interview go to www.redbookmag.com and pick up the May issue of REDBOOK, on newsstands April 9.
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