Princess Ivana Pignatelli Aragona Cortes Company Profile

Princess Ivana Maria Pignatelli Aragona Cortes is passionate about kids, her career and education. Hers is a modern Cinderella tale with a twist: She came from modest means, but was not saved by a kiss from Prince Charming. She became a successful woman in her own right. Princess Ivana has a Masters of Education and has worked with children for 20 years in a variety of capacities, from designing educational toys for preschoolers to tutoring homeless children. Ivana met her Prince Charming while on scholarship at Pepperdine. She became a princess when she married Adriano Pignatelli Aragona Cortes—Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and heir to a thousand-year lineage that includes kings of Sicily and Spain; Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII; along with a pope and a bona fide saint. Their two-year-old son and nine-month-old daughter are the latest additions to the line of succession. Over the past two years, she researched every baby topic on the planet. She was pregnant, first with her son, then her daughter, then juggling two babies in diapers, while developing her career and running a household. Talk about pressure! And yet Ivana knows that new mothers everywhere face the same challenges. The Super Mom juggling act between life, love, kids and career inspired her new book, The Modern Princess: A Simple Guide to Pregnancy & Baby's First Year (co-written with her mom, Magdalene Smith, and sister, Marisa Smith). The book blends entertaining personal stories with practical advice that will make new moms laugh and learn instead of feeling overwhelmed and terrified (which is how she felt after reading most parenting books). The guide is a fun, practical and simple book on motherhood with to-the-point tips on pregnancy, breastfeeding, eating and sleep schedules, developmental milestones, nutrition, home management and everything a new mom will need during the baby’s first year.