Conway on criticism: ‘I’m not there to read about myself’

President Trump’s top aide, Kellyanne Conway, said she often attempts to ignore what is written about her.

During an interview Sunday on Fox News’s “MediaBuzz,” Conway was asked about an article published earlier this month in The New York Times titled “Sexist Political Criticism Finds a New Target: Kellyanne Conway.”

The beginning of the article poses the question: “What powerful political woman is mocked for her clothes, is the target of pictures on Twitter depicting her as haggard and is routinely called a witch and a bitch?”

{mosads}”If you guessed Hillary Clinton, you’re right,” the article continues. “But if you guessed Kellyanne Conway, you’re right, too.”

Conway said she was “heartened” by the article, but noted she wasn’t interviewed for it. 

“I’ve turned off a lot of it. And if I don’t read most of the praise and I don’t read most of the criticism, like literally most of it, it keeps you in balance,” she said Sunday. 

“I’m there to serve the president, who’s there to serve the American people. I’m not there to read about myself.”

Conway faced criticism recently after a photo of her perched on the couch in the Oval Office circulated on social media.

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) cracked a joke about the photo, which was taken while Conway was photographing a group of visitors in the Oval Office, during the Washington Press Club Foundation’s congressional dinner that same week.

“I really just want to know what was going on [in the Conway photo], because I won’t tell anybody and you can just explain to me that circumstance, because she really looked, to me, familiar in that position,” Richmond said, addressing his joke to fellow lawmaker Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.).

“Don’t answer — and I don’t want you to refer back to the 1990s,” he added, alluding to a President Clinton/Monica Lewinsky joke that Scott had made. 

Richmond later apologized for his comment, saying he has “consistently been a champion for women and women’s issues.”

Conway said Sunday that working for the president and being a mom is “not hard at all.”

“It’s more rewarding than I could have ever imagined, because the impact he can have on lives … is truly remarkable, and it’s why I’m there,” she said.

She added that Trump is always “very gracious and very aware of the fact that I have children.”

“He knows it and he’s a very family-friendly, very pro-women boss to have,” she said.

“Sometimes I’m up on FaceTime until midnight helping with slide presentations or reviewing the spelling list,” she said. “And that’s the answer as to why I look haggard to you haters. I’m helping with sixth-grade math and I’m proud of it.”