'Tension' and 'fear' at Ivanka Trump's birthday as she waits to take stand in Donald trial

Donald Trump's eldest daughter marked the occasion of her birthday with her husband Jared, and their three children Arabella, Joseph Frederick, and Theodore.

She wore a pink dress, with a thigh-skimming hem and off-the-shoulder details and a pair of white, high-heeled sandals.

Ivanka is set to stand witness in her father, Donald Trump's, trial, where her brother Donald Trump Jr laughed in court while discussing his father's alleged fraud.

Does her birthday bash, though grand, betray any hint of concern?

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According to body language expert Judi James, yes. She told Daily Express US exclusively: "Ivanka’s poses on what should be a relaxed, happy family celebration show underlying signs of tension hinting at fear. Her strong, poised corporate look is gone.

"Her baby pink dress looks deliberately sweet and youthful and her placings in group poses or with Jared suggest a subliminal desire for barriers.

"With Jared, she poses with her torso turned into him and pressed against him and he has suddenly adopted a pose that hints that he is being protective and that she is feeling vulnerable.

"He holds her hand tenderly and places the other round her back, while her shoulders are subtly hunched towards him.

"Ivanka’s smiles in these photos look sustained and slightly frozen with none of the eye smiling or face-wrinkling that you expect from a fun smile.

"Her teeth look slightly clenched which again suggests tension. Standing behind her son her arms look pulled into her torso in a self-embrace as though she is bracing herself for what is to come."