Aw! The Kushners and Karlie Kloss Went on Vacation Together

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Aw! The Kushners and Karlie Kloss Went on Vacation Together

Let’s recall 2019: Beychella forever altered the festival landscape; Euphoria premiered on HBO; U.S. Women’s Soccer won the Gold Cup; and Karlie Kloss gave an often-quoted interview to British Vogue about her in-laws, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Kloss, who is married to Kushner’s brother, Josh, and has long been known as a bleed-blue Democrat, was struggling to square her politics with her relationship to Jared and Ivanka amid Ivanka’s father’s first term in office (before his first impeachment).

Well, if you think opposing political views (and Ivanka’s truly demonic DNA) would be tough for a family to navigate, you clearly underestimate the dissociative capabilities (and medicine cabinets) of the rich, because guess who just went on vacation together? The Kushner couples and their kids!

This week, the Daily Mail published paparazzi photos of the Kushners surfing and frolicking on the beach with Gisele Bündchen (her hot jiu jitsu instructor-turned-child’s father is now Ivanka’s trainer). Before the photos, evidence of the trip was scant, apart from Ivanka’s Instagram, which very notably did not feature or mention her in-laws.

“Spending Passover and Easter week surrounded by the raw beauty of Costa Rica was a gift beyond words,” Ivanka wrote on Instagram. “Time slowed. We surfed under golden skies, zipped through the jungle canopy, leapt into cool waterfalls, read until the sun dipped low, and surrendered to stillness and deep sleep.” OK, Mary Oliver…

“But more than the adventure, this week was about reconnecting—with the Earth, with faith, and with one another,” she continued. Kloss, meanwhile, has yet to post about the trip. Huh!

This little getaway comes a few short years after Kloss told British Vogue it was “hard” to navigate a relationship with her in-laws. “I choose to focus on the values that I share with my husband, and those are the same liberal values that I was raised with and that have guided me throughout my life,” she said at the time.

Come January 6, the relationship between Kloss and her brother and sister-in-law got even more contentious. In response to the insurrection, Kloss tweeted: “Accepting the results of a legitimate democratic election is patriotic. Refusing to do so and inciting violence is antiAmerican.” When one reply urged her to “tell her sister-in-law and brother-[in]-law,” Kloss responded, “I’ve tried.”

In texts released by the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection, that tweet was a hot topic among Ivanka’s Chief of Staff, Julie Radford, and Trump’s former aid, Hope Hicks (remember her?). Hicks shared a screenshot of the tweets with Radford, who replied “Unreal” and “She just called me about it.” She, one has to presume, was Ivanka.

Family, am I right? Can’t live with ’em, can’t go on a lavish holiday without ’em.


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