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Meet the offspring of President Donald Trump

Having grown up in the spotlight, his three eldest children managed to find success and happiness while sidestepping the usual celebrity kid drama

Donald Trump poses with his family after formally announcing his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on June 16, 2015.

President Donald Trump has two sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, and a daughter, Ivanka, with first wife Ivana; a daughter, Tiffany, with second wife Marla Maples; and a 10-year-old son, Barron, with current wife Melania.

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Having grown up in the spotlight, his three eldest children managed to find success and happiness while sidestepping the usual celebrity kid drama.

As a child he was extremely close to his maternal grandfather, Milos, who passed away in 1990. The two would spend a couple of weeks every summer hunting and fishing in a town outside of Prague (Ivana is Czechoslovakian). The fast-talking Donald Jr. is fluent in Czech and named one of his sons Tristan Milos, after his grandfather.

New York magazine profiletold Forbes

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In 2001, a year after he graduated from college, Donald Jr. went to work for his dad for the second time. (The first time was when he was 13

An avid runner and former runway model, Ivanka was formerly an executive vice president of acquisitions and development for The Trump Organization. But she didn't go straight from The Wharton School to an office at Trump Tower. She worked for real estate developer Bruce Ratner for a year after college. And a 2013 Forbes profile indicates that she politely declined a job offer from Vogue's Anna Wintour.

Specializing in deal-making and design, Ivanka joined her dad's company in 2005. She was the lead negotiator on the purchase of Trump National Doral Miami, a $1 billion property that she scooped up for $150 million. But earlier in January, she resigned from her job at The Trump Organization in preparation for the move to Washington, DC.

Ivanka is private about her personal life, but before tying the knot with real estate and publishing scion (and now senior Trump adviser) Jared Kushner she was linked to Greg Hersch

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For a long time, Eric was the six-foot-five, media-shy baby of the family. He told New York magazine that his brother Donald Jr. is like his mentor and Ivanka is like his second mother. "She took me under her wing and raised me, took me shopping, tried to make me cool," he said.

Unlike his brother and sister, he chose Georgetown over Wharton and went straight to work for his father after he graduated.

Eric also owns and operates Trump Winery, Virginia's largest vineyard, and has pledged nearly $28 million to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through his Eric Trump Foundation.

He and Lara split their time between Westchester and Manhattan, where Eric owns several different units at Trump Parc East.

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Unlike her half-siblings, Tiffany didn't grow up playing in her father's office — nor did she spend her summers helping him fix up the grounds of Seven Springs. Tiffany was raised by mother Marla Maples outside of Los Angeles.

Like a Bird

From the way Melania describes her 10-year-old son, he may be more like his father than any of his siblings. "He loves to build something and tear it down and build something else ... Sometimes I call him little Donald," she told Parenting.com.

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