She had boyfriends for years — but her famous father never knew a single one of them existed.

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Ivanka Trump has always shared a close bond with her father, Donald Trump. But when she was growing up, there was one part of her life she carefully kept away from him: her love life.

“I was too smart to bring home a date or a boyfriend,” Ivanka once admitted in an interview with the Express.

She didn’t want to put her boyfriends through the intense attention that came with dating the daughter of Donald Trump.

That changed in 2007, when Ivanka met Jared Kushner at a networking lunch.

For the first time, she decided to bring a boyfriend home to meet her father.

“I think I brought home my husband, that’s it — he was not my husband at the time,” she said.

“But I was not going to subject boyfriends to the scrutiny of my father, or my mother for that matter, unless I was 100 percent sure.”

Ivanka and Jared married in 2009 and went on to welcome three children: Arabella, Joseph and Theodore.

But becoming a mother also changed the way Ivanka viewed her own father.

“The 14-year-old Ivanka loved her father very much but didn’t realize just how great he was,” she told People.

“Now that I’m a parent, I realize how difficult it is. He was tough, firm, but always available to us.”

For Ivanka, becoming a mother gave her a new perspective on the man who raised her — and brought her even closer to her father.