Ivanka Trump has addressed her former sister-in-law Vanessa Trump’s new relationship with Tiger Woods.
The 43-year-old businesswoman reacted to Woods’s Instagram post on Sunday, in which he confirmed he was dating Vanessa. His post included two sweet photos of him and his girlfriend, including one of her lying down and hugging him.
“So happy for you both!” Ivanka commented, along with two smiling face emojis with red hearts.
Before her relationship with Woods, Vanessa was married to Ivanka’s brother, Donald Trump Jr., for 12 years. The former couple share five children: Kai, 17, Donald Trump III, 16, Tristan, 13, Spencer, 12, and Chloe, 10.
Ivanka and Vanessa have remained close friends over the years. In a 2016 interview with People, two years before Vanessa split from Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka gushed about her then-sister-in-law’s skills as a working mother.
“My sister-in-law Vanessa is a machine,” she said. “She can take all of [my children] and not even notice. She has five children and she’s Wonder Woman to me.”
“Love is in the air, and life is better with you by my side! We look forward to our journey through life together. At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts,” Woods wrote in the caption of his post, which Vanessa shared on her Instagram Stories.
One photo showed Woods and Vanessa posing together, while another featured them lying in a hammock with her arm draped across his chest.
Earlier this month, the Daily Mail and People reported that the pair had been dating for several months. They reportedly started seeing each other around Thanksgiving.
One source claimed to Daily Mail that while they weren’t living together, they did live 20 minutes from one another in Florida’s Palm Beach. An insider also told People that Vanessa’s ex-husband doesn’t mind that she is now dating the golf legend.
Woods and Vanessa Trump were previously seen at Torrey Pines in San Diego along with her daughter when Woods arrived for the final round to hand out the trophy to the winner of the Genesis Invitational in February. He was the tournament host.
Kai attends school with Woods’s two children, Sam and Charlie. This week, she and Charlie competed on an invitation to a high-profile junior golf tournament.
Woods shares two children with ex-wife Elin Nordegren, who divorced him in 2010 after he had been exposed for multiple extramarital affairs. His only other public relationship was with Erica Herman, which lasted about seven years until October 2022. It was a messy split, with Herman filing a $30 million lawsuit against Woods and his trust, claiming unfairly evicting her from his Florida home. However, she eventually dismissed the lawsuit.
Woods announced on March 11 that he ruptured his left Achilles tendon, knocking him out of the Masters and likely for the rest of the year.
