How Ivana Trump’s ‘First Wives Club’ cameo turned her into an icon for spurned brides

Ivana Trump turned an icon in her personal proper when she turned her high-profile divorce from Donald Trump into silver display brilliance — with a memorable cameo within the 1996 movie “The First Wives Membership.”

The late spouse of the previous president appeared as herself within the film and provided recommendation to a trio of divorcées that had been searching for revenge on their ex-husbands, who had left them for younger ladies.

“Girls you need to be sturdy and impartial,” she informed the characters portrayed by A-listers Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton.

“And bear in mind: don’t get mad, get all the things!”

Ivana’s look got here 4 years after her contentious divorce, which was frequent front-page fodder for tabloids, together with The Put up.

The skier-turned-businesswoman then went on to put in writing a collection of books about divorce that included titles comparable to “Finest is But to Come: Dealing with Divorce and Having fun with Life,” along with her strains of trend and beauty merchandise.

Ivana was married to Austrian Alfred Winklmayr years earlier than tying the knot with Donald, and went on to wed two extra occasions after their divorce — to Italian businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli and Italian actor Rossano Rubicondi.

All three of these unions lasted two years or much less.

She was married to Trump for 15 years, with the pair changing into a Eighties publicity energy couple and fixtures on the Manhattan social scene. She was Donald’s first spouse and the mom of his first three youngsters, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump.

Ivana Trump, 73, died Thursday at her Higher East Aspect house of obvious cardiac arrest.