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Ivanka Trump's former classmate says Donald had a 'photographic memory' for her body
A former classmate and friend of Ivanka Trump claims that her father, President Donald Trump, made several comments about her body when she was growing up.
Writing in a tell-all exposé in Vanity Fair, Lysandra Ohrstrom, who met Ivanka when they were both enrolled at the Upper East Side school Chapin in their teens, spoke out about her relationship with the incumbent president's daughter.
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In the article in question, the 38-year-old author and journalist revealed that she had once been one of two maids of honor at Ivanka’s wedding to Jared Kushner in October of 2009.
But she said that as time went on, their friendship wilted after Ivanka began allying herself more and more overtly with her father's politics and values.
Ohrstrom also claims that while growing up, Donald Trump had an uncomfortable interest in the physical attractiveness of Ivanka's young friends, and would congratulate her if she ever appeared to have lost weight.
She claims that Trump allegedly made one comment in particular that stuck with her for years. Ohrstrom wrote:
"Though he never remembered my name, he seemed to have a photographic memory for changes in my body.
"I’ll never forget the time Ivanka and I were having lunch with her brothers at Mar-a-Lago one day, and while Mr. Trump was saying hi, Don Jr. swiped half a grilled cheese sandwich off my plate.
"Ivanka scolded him, but Mr. Trump chimed in: 'Don’t worry. She doesn’t need it. He’s doing her a favor.'"
However, Ohrstrom also claimed that Trump was more fixated on his daughter's physical appearance than her's, adding:
"He would barely acknowledge me except to ask if Ivanka was the prettiest or the most popular girl in our grade…I remember answering honestly that she was probably in the top five.
"'Who’s prettier than Ivanka?', I recall him asking once with genuine confusion, before correctly naming the two girls I’d had in mind. He described one as a young Cindy Crawford, while the other he said had a great figure."
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Ohrstrom also alleged that Ivanka had been quite a troublemaker at school, and stated her belief that Ivanka and her spouse will move to Palm Beach in Florida once Trump's term is over, in order to avoid further publicity.