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Tiffany Trump will make her national debut at the Republican National Convention

Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump and Marla Maples. attends the evening session of the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday.
Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump and Marla Maples. attends the evening session of the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday. Associated Press

She is one of the “Rich Kids of Instagram,” a recent Ivy League graduate known for using cute expressions like “goodness gracious.”

She was raised by a single mom in California.

Outside of the 160,000 people who follow her on Instagram, 22-year-old Tiffany Trump is not well known to the rest of the world. But that changes Tuesday night when she gives a prime-time speech at the Republican National Convention.

She’ll be talking about her dad, Donald Trump.

Here are 11 things to know about the candidate’s fourth child.

1. Her parents are Marla Maples and Donald Trump, who married in 1993 and divorced in 1999. Maples and Trump became tabloid fodder when they allegedly had an affair while he was still married to his first wife, Ivana.

Maples raised Tiffany on the West Coast from the time she was a preschooler. “The truth was, the challenge was being able to balance being a working mom and being there for a child full-time. Her daddy loves her, of course, but … I was the parent,” Maples told Us Weekly in April.

“I was the parent that was there in the flesh (and) with her all the time. It was amazing. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. I learned the most and it brought me the greatest joy.”

2. Tiffany has a special bond with her mom. “My mom and I have always been very close,” Tiffany said on Oprah Winfrey’s “Where Are They Now?” in 2011. “Everyone is always like, ‘You really have a good relationship.’ She’s with me a lot of the time.”

 

Momma ❤️ @itsmarlamaples

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3. Her social media following is huuuge by mere mortal standards: 27,000 followers on Twitter and 160,000 followers on Instagram.

 

Control the tempo and you can usually control the game✔️ #internlife #aeffe #philosophy #lorenzoserafini

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4. She was a bridesmaid in her half-sister Ivanka Trump’s 2009 wedding to Jared Kushner.

5. She was named after the famous jewelery store Tiffany & Co. Her father finished the 58-story Trump Tower skyscraper near Tiffany’s in New York City in 1982.

6. She is an Ivy League graduate. Tiffany graduated from her father’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, in May. Her parents, along with Melania Trump, half-sister Ivanka Trump and half-brother, Barron Trump, were there to cheer her on.

Maples documented most of the day on Instagram, including the motorcade that shuttled the family to graduation from the Trump National Golf Club in Philadelphia.

Tiffany is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and graduated in the same class as Joe Biden’s granddaughter, Naomi Biden, according to ABC News.

She double majored in sociology and urban studies. When she was 17 she told Winfrey that going to college would be a chance for her to make her own name for herself. “It will be … a chance to be Tiffany, not just ‘Tiffany Trump.’ 

 

✔️ #graduation2016 #upenn #penngrad

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7. Town and Country magazine dubbed her one of the “Rich Kids of Instagram.” The New York Times referred to her social media savvy famous friends as the “Snap Pack.”

 

☀️

A photo posted by Tiffany Ariana Trump (@tiffanytrump) on

 

 

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Her squad includes model Stephanie Seymour’s son Peter Brant Jr.; Kyra Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Magic Johnson’s son, EJ; and Gaia Matisse, great-great granddaughter of painter Henri Matisse.

8. She once interned at Vogue. Her older sister, Ivanka, reportedly helped her get the gig. “She would go to work at 5:30 a.m. and even got to have lunch with Anna Wintour,” Ivanka Trump told the Daily Mail in 2013.

9. Her boyfriend is a registered Democrat who likes Hillary Clinton. (Eeek!)

 

 

A photo posted by Tiffany Ariana Trump (@tiffanytrump) on

Tiffany took her boyfriend, Ross Mechanic, a UPenn undergraduate studying software engineering, to the Republican convention. They sat together Monday on opening night.

According to The Daily Mail, Mechanic is working this summer as an intern at a real estate start-up founded by Ivanka’s husband. His father is real estate lawyer Jonathan Mechanic, who has reportedly known Donald Trump for several years. Everyone in the Mechanic family is said to be registered and active Democrats.

10. Tiffany wanted to sing, but …

In 2011 she released a heavily auto-tuned pop single called “Like a Bird.” You’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of it.

11. She supports her dad. Of course.

“He’s true to himself. And he speaks in a way that the average person can understand. I think that’s refreshing for everyone,” Tiffany said on ABC’s “20/20” last fall. “I’m so happy to be Tiffany Trump, happy to be in the family I’m in.”

This story was originally published July 19, 2016 at 12:39 PM with the headline "Tiffany Trump will make her national debut at the Republican National Convention."

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