Workaholics: A Love Story
Awww, gross again. After getting the simply nauseating news that real estate heirs Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are getting hitched, now we have to hear even more about it. The future Mrs. Kushner went and blabbed to Daily Intel.
Basically Ivankz wanted to make sure that Gabriel Sherman, and by extension us, understands one important thing: J-rad and Ivy are just a normal couple, a normal couple with crippling work addictions who use each other to shamelessly network:
It’s very rare we’re featured out at some fancy restaurant on a date. We’re very mellow. We go to the park. We go biking together. We go to the 2nd Avenue Deli. We both live in this fancy world. But on a personal level, I don’t think I could be with somebody – I know he couldn’t be with somebody – who needed to be ‘on’ all the time. … I don’t think we’ve ever been to a nightclub together in two years. I’m really thankful for that. I have a lot of stamina, but I don’t think I have the stamina to work as hard as I do and play that hard. … I’ve learned how to cook. Once a week, we have a night in and I cook for just the two of us. We turn everything off and spend time together and talk about what we’re working on.
Nice! Also:
We’re both crazed. The good news is, there’s not a tremendous amount of compromise, because we’re in the same industry. There are a lot of work-oriented dinners that he may have – and while a normal girlfriend in an unrelated field would find it incredibly boring – it’s fascinating to me. … Another thing that I think is incredible about him, which I think some girlfriends would not like, but I respect, is every night when he goes home, he works for about an hour and a half and return e-mails he hadn’t had a chance to return before. He’s just very diligent … Even when we first started dating, I’d call him at 6 [a.m.] when I’m getting up, and he’d be awake; he’d definitely be awake when I was going to sleep. And all Sunday he’s in the office.
Oh that sounds terrific! Working all the time except during family meal, when he’s talking about work! But don’t worry, everyone:
He’ll be a great father. He knows how to prioritise what’s important.
Yes, important things like nannies.
Oh, you crazy kids, we don’t mean to be harsh. We’re just crabby and single and spend our Sundays taking walks and going to movies. What do we know?
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You all sound so jealous and hateful. Pathetic, really, but entertaining!!
mslewis
@Baroness: That was damn funny. Or damned, if we're being proper.
gladys_kravitz
Oh that photo again...
Seriously, who did her make-up for that event, Tim Burton?
She's very Corpse Society Bride.
Ellabella
@lazereyes: You funny.
ligmasagbatch
@City_Dater: Richard, call me Gretchen but is that a double entendre?
pattycakes
She's going to Jared?!?!?!?! *Squeal!*
"I've learned how to cook." You tedious, boring rich children forever trying to convince the rest of us that you're just like us, yes, you crack my shit up. You are "featured" every day of your overprivileged lives, so do us all a favor and shut it.
Does that mean they only do it on his desk while he's at work?
@Baroness: You made milk come out my nose.
fragglewaggle
Sounds to me like she's putting on a Steve Jobs/Powerpoint-style interview in which she delineates the crazy habits this man keeps - so that, therefore, hence, such as - no other woman could or would tolerate this behavior, so don't even try, bitches.
Just a normal couple, starting at the top of the ladder. Choosing to work on Sunday and being forced to, just to make ends meet, are two entirely different things.
Island of Misfit Toys
"I really don't mind having a calculator on my ass when we're doing it doggy-style. Some people won't understand, but I find Jared's utter dedication and tapping fingers a turn-on."
I think we've all set our phasers to Josh.
Seriously? We can't get universal health care but we can spend time admiring the children of the wealthy because they work hard? Like that makes this (and by this I mean no safety net, no proper taxation of the wealthy and did I mention no universal health care?) (I'll stop now.)
Hey_mikey
@resipsaloquacious: A small tip, my son: never ever touch either of their Blackberrys without gloves.
Please oh please tell me someone else remembers when she was shilling for that pasta-at-work thing? http://workinglunch.msn.com/#/homepage/2009-01-16V1182870/
By same industry, does she mean "real estate" or "nepotism"?
City_Dater
Wow, George Michael Bluth sure grew up quickly.
MattPol
Can't wait to see how many points they rack up in Altarcations. Has anyone ever gotten a Googleplex before?
DahlELama
I think the key phrase here is "We're both crazed."
Because you'd have to be to have as much wealth and privilege as they do and still spend nights and Sundays working on your failing newspaper project instead of travelling the world enjoying life. [oh yes, Richard, we are crabby and single and spend our Sundays not working. But I can't afford the movies so I just go for walks.]
pattycakes
"Oh, he is just terribly successful and efficient in everything he does. Take sex, for example: I cannot tell you how many times I have woken up at 6:00 am and he is already using a towelette to clean me off. Efficient and courteous!"
I just puked on my keyboard.
Behold! This is all very heartening and wholesome news. All they need now is a little more mutual anal, and they'll be fine.
where is her nose? what happened?
spotted-dog
@Baroness: When you're as busy and crazed as they are, you need to multi-task.
OrneryBabe