{"id":136521,"date":"2026-07-02T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/136521\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:22:17","slug":"kai-trump-shares-rare-look-at-mom-vanessa-trump-as-don-jr-s-ex-wife-recovers-from-breast-cancer-surgery-following-shocking-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/136521\/","title":{"rendered":"Kai Trump shares rare look at mom Vanessa Trump as Don Jr.\u2019s ex-wife recovers from breast cancer surgery following shocking diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kai Trump gave her followers a glimpse of her mother, Vanessa Trump, in rare new family photos shared weeks after the former model underwent surgery following her breast cancer diagnosis, <a data-ylk=\"slk:Wonderwall.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wonderwall.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Wonderwall.com<\/a> can report.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s 19-year-old granddaughter took to Instagram to share a <a data-ylk=\"slk:carousel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaLyrz5lTv9\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">carousel<\/a> of images taken at Vanessa&#8217;s mother&#8217;s recent 80th birthday celebration in New York, which also included photos of the 48-year-old ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Kai posts new images of Vanessa<img alt=\"Bonnie Haydon posed for a photo flanked by grandchildren Donnie, Kai and Tristan Trump and daughter Vanessa Trump during her 80th birthday celebrations in June. By: @kaitrump\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wonderwall_734\/ca503f1264d899f6ddb948ed6ab93562.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Haydon posed for a photo flanked by grandchildren Donnie, Kai and Tristan Trump and daughter Vanessa Trump during her 80th birthday celebrations in June. By: @kaitrump\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Kai was joined by brothers Donald &#8220;Donnie&#8221; Trump III, 17, and Tristan Trump, 14, for the small soiree at their grandmother Bonnie Haydon&#8217;s New York City apartment. (Vanessa also shares children Spencer Trump and Chloe Trump with Don Jr., whom she divorced in 2018 after 12 years of marriage.)<\/p>\n<p>The siblings sat with their mom and grandma for a three-generation photo, which Kai \u2014 who will enter her freshman year at the University of Miami in the fall \u2014 posted on June 29.<\/p>\n<p>Kai also included shots of herself wearing a sleeveless blue satin top paired with a white miniskirt as she gazed out at the city&#8217;s skyscrapers from her grandmother&#8217;s balcony.<\/p>\n<p>But it was Kai&#8217;s photo with her mother that drew the most supportive comments from followers, some of whom remarked on how &#8220;beautiful&#8221; Vanessa looked.<\/p>\n<p>Kai reveals sweet mother-daughter photo with Vanessa<img alt=\"Kai Trump posed alongside her mother, Vanessa, on grandmother Bonnie Haydon's balcony in June. By: @kaitrump\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wonderwall_734\/7f701de3677993ee64b4c2f2f9c9c438.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kai Trump posed alongside her mother, Vanessa, on grandmother Bonnie Haydon&#8217;s balcony in June. By: @kaitrump\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa had largely remained out of the public eye since announcing her diagnosis on May 20 \u2014 just three days after she and her ex-husband hosted festivities marking Kai&#8217;s high school graduation.<\/p>\n<p>She wore a white cardigan with gold buttons and a pleated white skirt for the family birthday gathering, drawing supportive comments from followers.<\/p>\n<p>Fans celebrated Kai&#8217;s mom&#8217;s strength amid her cancer journey in the comments, with one person writing, &#8220;Your mom is so beautiful! Good luck to her with her treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A second person wrote, &#8220;Happy Birthday to your Grandma\u2026 Prayers for your mom. I hope she&#8217;s doing well!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Added a third, &#8220;So good to see you always honor your mom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa starting &#8216;second stage&#8217; of cancer treatment<img alt=\"Vanessa Trump announced her breast cancer diagnosis on May 20 and later revealed she would soon begin the second stage of treatment. By: MEGA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wonderwall_734\/1bf0b06f9da215a6cc2779e6214d5620.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Trump announced her breast cancer diagnosis on May 20 and later revealed she would soon begin the second stage of treatment. By: MEGA<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa made headlines when she revealed she had breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this isn&#8217;t news anyone expects, I&#8217;m working closely with my medical team on a treatment plan. I would like to thank my doctors for performing a procedure earlier this week on me. I am staying focused and hopeful while surrounded by the love and support of my family, my kids and those closest to me,&#8221; the mother of five \u2014 who&#8217;s in a long-term relationship with golfer Tiger Woods \u2014 wrote on Instagram as she announced her diagnosis. She also asked for privacy &#8220;as I focus on my health and recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa gave fans another update on June 13. &#8220;Over the past four weeks, I&#8217;ve been recovering from surgery, and I&#8217;m grateful to be healing and moving forward. Soon, I&#8217;ll be starting the second stage of my treatment,&#8221; the Manhattan native revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa also sent out &#8220;love, strength and hope to everyone fighting this battle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kai honors her mother<img alt=\"Kai Trump showed off the flowers she got her mom, Vanessa Trump, in a May YouTube video. By: @KaiTrump\/YouTube\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wonderwall_734\/1f7cf4683116f695a346b8831ffa0b53.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kai Trump showed off the flowers she got her mom, Vanessa Trump, in a May YouTube video. By: @KaiTrump\/YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Kai has made it clear how close she is to her mom in multiple videos she&#8217;s shared on her YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I bought my mom flowers because no one deserves them more than my mom,&#8221; Kai gushed to her 1.5 million subscribers in a May 9 clip. &#8220;I got these all for my mom because without her, I mean, yeah, I probably graduated high school, but like, without her support and everything \u2026 and pushing me to be better and get good grades, it wouldn&#8217;t be possible,&#8221; she added. &#8220;So, love you, mom. Got you some flowers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kai also paid tribute to Vanessa in a Mother&#8217;s Day <a data-ylk=\"slk:post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYK7DecFVeu\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, calling her &#8220;the best Mom I could ever ask for. I&#8217;m so thankful and lucky to have you in my life,&#8221; Kai added. &#8220;Thank you for always supporting me and loving your 5 kids. You are such an amazing Mom and we are all so lucky to have you. I appreciate you more than anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kai Trump gave her followers a glimpse of her mother, Vanessa Trump, in rare new family photos shared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[46158,10376,12,111,2307,44087,74,79],"class_list":["post-136521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kai-trump","tag-bonnie-haydon","tag-chloe-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-kai-trump","tag-spencer-trump","tag-tristan-trump","tag-trump","tag-vanessa-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116847768080317348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}