Ivana Trump could have been the US ambassador to the Czech Republic — but she didn’t want to give up her jet-setting lifestyle.
“My ex said, ‘Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you,’ ” the first Mrs. Donald Trump told The Post from her front-row perch at the Dennis Basso fashion show Monday.
‘My ex said, “Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you.”‘
“It’s four years in Prague, so bye-bye to Miami, bye-bye to New York in spring and fall, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in summer,” explained Ivana, who was born in the town of Zlin in the former Czechoslovakia in 1949.
“I like my freedom and I want to do what I want to do, go wherever I want to go, with whomever I want. I don’t need the prestige, and it’s an 8-to-12 job,” said the former model, who recently signed a deal to write a tell-all book, “Raising Trump,” about bringing up their kids, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr.
“Would I be great? I would be great because I can negotiate, I am a business person and I can entertain. It’s a lot of work, so I said no.
“They made me the honorary ambassador.”
Ivana’s decision to turn down the ambassador role reportedly left Czech President Milos Zeman “furious” earlier this year.
Zeman called her a “coward” and said she was shirking a responsibility to her homeland, according to the Prague Daily Monitor.
Ivana married Donald Trump in 1977 and divorced him in 1992 after he started seeing the woman who would become his second wife, Marla Maples.