Ivanka Trump broke into tears when discussing the women who shaped her life in a rare show of emotion for the first daughter.

Trump, 44, asked for a tissue as she discussed her mother and maternal grandmother in an interview with the Diary of a CEO podcast. She also grew tearful at other points in the 90-minute interview, when she discussed her husband Jared Kushner’s battle with thyroid cancer and how she watched her father get shot in Butler, Pa., in “real time” with two of her children.

But her most emotional moment was when she expressed her regret that her three children – Arabella, Joseph and Theo – won’t get to know their grandmother Ivana Trump.

And she said she was grateful her own grandmother – Ivana’s mother Marie Zelníčková – lives with them in Florida. Nicknamed by the family as “Babi,” Trump said she raised her and her brothers Don Jr. and Eric when they were children.

“My grandmother cooked every meal,” she said. “She’s unbelievably nurturing.”

Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner moved to Florida after President Trump’s first term in office. They are raising their children in Miami, with Babi living with them.

“’It’s a blessing to have her in our home and living with us,” Trump said, adding she appreciates the stories Babi tells her children. “Her telling her stories and stories of my mother, who they sadly didn’t get to know.”

At that point, Trump had to pause in order to compose herself and choke back tears.

Podcast host Steven Bartlett asked her: “Are you okay?”

“I have a lot of love for this woman,” Trump said as the tears came. She noted: “This doesn’t happen to me often.”

“She taught me so much about love,” she continued. “It’s been hard to see her now as she struggles.”

Then Trump whispered: “Maybe I’ll have a tissue.” An aide brought her one so she could wipe her eyes.

Trump also described her late mother Ivana as “extraordinary.”

Then Trump whispered: “Maybe I’ll have a tissue.” An aide brought her one so she could wipe her eyes.

Ivana Trump died in 2022 at the age of 73 from a fall at her New York home. She was found at the bottom of the staircase in her townhouse on the Upper East Side.

“My mother taught me a lot about bringing intention to what you do,” she said, tearing up again. “Sorry,” she whispered. Ivanka delivered her mother’s eulogy at her funeral and was very close to her.

“I’m trying not to cry again,” she said as Bartlett showed her photos of her as a child with her mother.

“She lived a good life,” Trump said, wiping away tears. “She was very joyful.”

“Losing a parent. It hits differently you know, especially unexpectedly, especially sort of post-covid, which kind of robbed so many of us of so many years,” she noted.

During the pandemic, Trump was in Washington DC with her family – serving in the White House during President Trump’s first term – while her mother Ivana was in New York.

“We really keep her memory alive,” Trump said of her mother.