Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka has always led what anyone would consider to be a sheltered life. From lavish vacations to dream homes, Ivanka has never known anything she could not obtain by asking daddy to take care of it.

Unfortunately for her, she was forced to deal with reality once her father became the most prominent public figure in America. All of the family’s dirty laundry, including her own, became fair game for not just discussion but for constant examination.

Compounding the issue for her is the fact that Trump really only hired people he really trusted — meaning people that he would tell secrets to. That, in turn, meant Ivanka’s secrets could potentially be passed on to others as well.

On such skeleton in her closet was a story of a time when she and some friends at the private Chapin School in Manhattan flashed a hot dog vendor on the sidewalk outside the building. The publication of a story like that could devastate her pristine public image, Ivanka worried, and she did everything she could to suppress it.

In fact, she tried to deny it altogether.

But ultimately it ended up in Emily Jane Fox’s book Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family, and Ivanka was not happy. And Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former Press Secretary, noted in her own book that someone other than Ivanka may have recognized that responding to a story like that would only cause it to gain traction:

Responding to something like that would only amplify its importance and give more oxygen to the story. But Ivanka didn’t see it that way.

Not being able to squash that story from the beginning must have driven Ivanka crazy. But from Grisham’s telling in her exposé I’ll Take Your Questions Now, Ms. Trump thought she would be able to use the resources of the most powerful home in America — the White House — to keep things like that under wraps.

Image was everything in the Trump family, and Ivanka worked very hard to convey an image of perfection.

It’s too bad she was born a Trump.

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