Ivanka Trump has become controversial figure in her father’s administration, but for all the criticism she receives, there are loyal women who are obsessed with recounting her every move on their social media fan pages.
Following her father’s rise to the presidency, numerous Ivanka Trump fans accounts have popped up, and the 36-year-old first daughter follows 40 of them. Many of the young women who run these accounts believe Ivanka is a role model despite what her critics say, and they proudly fill their pages with daily snapshots of President Trump’s eldest daughter.
Suman Choudhary, a 24-year-old living in Jaipur, India, told Cosmopolitan.com she launched her @ivankaupdates fan account on Instagram in 2016. While she doesn’t really follow American politics, she thinks Ivanka ‘has all the qualities a woman should have.’
Admirer: Ivanka Trump superfan Suman Choudhary has more than 57,000 followers after launching her @ivankaupdates Instagram account in 2016. She shared this photo last month
Fan club: Suman, a 24-year-old living in Jaipur, India, shares gushing posts about the first daughter
Inspiration: Suman believes Ivanka has ‘all the qualities a woman should have’
When Suman first heard about Ivanka in 2016, she looked her up on YouTube and found herself incredibly impressed by her speech at the Republican National Convention.
‘I loved the way she talks, how calm and composed she is. Her dress, her sense of style. Everything impressed me,’ Suman said. ‘I was like, she’s amazing. She makes an amazing role model.
‘She has all the qualities a woman should have. She’s an amazing woman. So I made a fan page for her.’
Suman’s fan account is filled with a mix of current images and throwback photos of the first daughter along with gushing captions.
‘More than grateful for having such an incredible role model to look forward to,’ she wrote in one post. ‘I can’t thank you enough Ivanka! Whatever you do you do it with whole heart and out of passion that makes you stand out. Never dull your sparkle.’
Strike a pose: Ivanka, who is pictured when she was pregnant with her son Theodore, follows 40 of her fan accounts, including @ivankaupdates
The account has more than 57,000 followers — including Ivanka — and Suman spends about 45 minutes a day scrolling through photos of the White House senior adviser. She admitted that her dedication to posting a minimum of two photos a day used to leave her feeling a bit crazed.
‘There was a time when I would go somewhat crazy about her,’ she said. ‘When I’d wake up, I used to think about her. My last thought of the day was her.’
Suman said she has exchanged Direct Messages with Ivanka on Instagram, and she even tried to make plans to meet her during the first daughter’s trip to India in November. However, her dream meeting never came into fruition.
According to Cosmopolitan.com, Suman didn’t want to stop gushing about Ivanka rise from model to businesswoman to political figure when their phone interview was over.
‘Team Ivanka’: Paige, a 14-year-old from Indiana, runs the @ivankatrumpsbiggestfan Instagram account and considers Ivanka her ‘number-one role model’
Curated: Paige’s fan account is filled with spliced images of Ivanka’s daily outfits, old modeling shots, and snapshots of her with her family
Spreading the word: Although she is still too young to vote, Paige proudly uses the hashtag #ivankaforpresident
‘She’s perfect in everything…I wonder how can someone be so perfect?’ she said.
Paige, a 14-year-old from Indiana, runs the @ivankatrumpsbiggestfan Instagram account, which has more than 9,300 followers. On the page’s bio, she keeps a tally of how many times Ivanka has liked or commented on her photos.
The superfan even lists the date Ivanka started following her account (7/3/13) and how many times she has responded to her via DM (2x).
Paige’s fan account is filled with spliced images of Ivanka’s daily outfits, old modeling shots, and snapshots of her with her husband Jared Kushner and their three children, Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore.
‘Besides my mom. I consider her my number-one role model,’ Paige said, and she isn’t the only teen running a fan account dedicated to the first daughter.
Queen: Aside from her mom, Paige considers Ivanka to be her ‘number-one role model’
Daddy’s girl: Sofya Gray, a 26-year-old from Rockport, Massachusetts, manages the @thefirstdaughterivanka Instagram account
Of the five women Cosmpolitan.com interviewed about their fan accounts, three of them are still in high school and unable to vote. However, that doesn’t stop them from using the hashtag ##ivankaforpresident.
Eve, a 16-year-old from Tennessee, said she ‘fully supports’ President Trump, noting that she admires his ‘work ethic.’
The honor student takes AP classes and manages her @alwaysivanka fan account in her spare time. Although she said she only spends about 10 to 15 minutes a day on it, her posts have earned her more than 49,000 followers.
Critics of Ivanka have denounced her for being complicit in her father’s agenda and being ineffective in government. She has been accused of touting a faux-feminist agenda and pushing the limits of ethics laws by wearing pieces from her eponymous brand while conducting official government business.
Someone to look up to: Eve, a 16-year-old from Tennessee, is an AP student who manages her @alwaysivanka fan account in her spare time
Power couple: The women who run these accounts all seem to admire Ivanka’s empire, her #WomenWhoWork brand, and her dedication to her family
Meanwhile, her book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success, was critically panned, with many saying it showed just how privileged and out of touch she is.
However, the women who spoke to Cosmopolitan.com all admire Ivanka’s empire and her #WomenWhoWork brand. It has even inspired some of them to go into business.
Sara, a 16-year-old who manages her private @weloveivanka Instagram account with a friend, became interested in her when she appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice with her father. Her admiration for Ivanka’s career led her take an entrepreneurship class in her freshman year of high school.
Two years later, she takes accounting and is looking to study international business whens he gets to college. However, she admitted that she didn’t support Ivanka’s father during the presidential election, nor did she consider him a ‘serious candidate.’
‘I don’t see her as a political figure,’ she said of Ivanka. ‘I see her as someone who’s been put into a unique situation, and I think that she’s trying to make the best of it.’