According to The Independent, Ivana Trump’s first contact with Donald Trump was in 1976 while she was in New York for a fashion show. Recalling their first meeting, Ivana told the New York Post that she was waiting for a table with her friends when Donald struck up a conversation with her. He ended up sitting at their table and eventually cleared the bills before disappearing — something she said she found rather unusual. “I said, ‘There’s something strange because I’ve never met a man who didn’t want anything from a woman and paid for it,’” Ivana told the outlet. The pair would end up entering into a romantic relationship, and by April 1977, barely a year after they met, Ivana and Donald got married.
That same year, the couple welcomed their first son, Donald Trump Jr. Their daughter, Ivanka Trump, was born four years later, in 1981, while their last child, Eric Trump, entered the world in 1984, per The Independent.
While the couple did have their own share of marital bliss, their positive relationship did not last very long. Donald, an unrepentant womanizer, frequently cheated on Ivana with multiple women — one of whom was Marla Maples, a former beauty queen, according to the New York Post. Maples famously became Donald’s second wife, and the mother of Tiffany Trump.