Ivanka Trump

People have a recording device in their hands, their iPhone, and can take pictures of them.

And, you know, you're so exposed during your formative years.

And thankfully, I did not have that growing up.

There were times I felt it.

I remember—

I wanted to be a dancer, a ballet dancer.

And, you know, my mom was an incredible skier.

She skied on the national team for then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic.

And so she really believed in the importance of sport for cultivating discipline.

And so she really encouraged this.

And I was dancing at Juilliard, the School of American Ballet here in New York.

I was in The Nutcracker, and I remember I was probably eight, and I was, you know, like some small role in The Nutcracker.

I was a party girl and an angel.

Those were like the entry roles where you, like, dance at the party where the man with the nutcracker arrives, and then you're in that angel scene.

And I remember being so excited, and it was my first Nutcracker.

And Michael Jackson had just moved into Trump Tower and was literally our neighbor in Trump Tower.

And my father sees him one day, you know, passing in the lobby.

I'm with him.

I said, you know, my daughter's in the Nutcracker.

You should come.