Inside Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump's relationship

Ivanka and Chelsea are close in age, have children around the same age and are both extremely close to their parents. Despite not being as friendly as of late (who could blame them?), they have a history of friendship. Whether they're both donning Vera Wang at their weddings, or helping their parents with their political campaigns, we're going to take a more detailed look at the current and former First Daughters' relationship.


Both girls had affluent childhoods

It's hard to ignore all the similarities between the two women's childhoods. Both ladies grew up with affluent means, with Chelsea spending her adolescence in the White House and Ivanka at her dad's New York skyscraper, and both made surprising decisions that helped turn them into the self-reliant women they are today.


The girls are both fiercely independent—Chelsea turning down opportunities to attend Ivy League East Coast universities and instead jetting to Stanford, the Independent Journal Review reported. Ivanka "built an empire in the world of business" instead of partying, like you might expect from a socialite. Ivanka decided to spend two years at Georgetown University and then transferred to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (via Downtown Magazine NYC).

They met through their husbands

Chelsea and Ivanka met through their husbands, who also have a lot in common. Marc Mezvinsky (Chelsea's husband) and Jared Kushner (Ivanka's husband) met and became friends while working in finance in Manhattan, The Sunday Express reported. They began taking their wives out on double dates and the two clicked immediately.

Mezvinsky works for a hedge fund and previously spent time as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, according to People. He's also the son of former Representative Edward Mezvinsky, who spent a few years in prison for fraud involving millions of dollars (he was released in 2008). Kushner is the son of real estate developer Charles Kushner. He's principal owner of Kushner Properties, which he's taken over since 2008 when his father got into legal trouble for tax evasion, illegal campaign donations and witness tampering and spent a year in prison, The Sun reported.

Both men are Jewish, and Ivanka converted to Judaism before marrying her husband. Chelsea, who was raised Methodist, "believes she can raise her children in multiple faiths," (via The Times of Israel).


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