Jennifer Aniston Slams J.D. Vance’s Resurfaced Comments About Women Without Children
Jennifer Aniston is blasting Sen. J.D. Vance for his resurfaced 2021 comments about women such as Vice President Kamala Harris who have not given birth.
“I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States,” The Morning Show star wrote on her Instagram Story on Wednesday. “All I can say is…Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day.”
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Aniston, who has shared her personal IVF journey in the past, continued, “I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.”
In her post, the Friends alum also shared a screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter), which featured Vance’s July 2021 interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. In the clip, Donald Trump’s running mate can be heard saying the United States was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
“It’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” Vance continued in the footage. “And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
Harris is stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two children, Cole, 29, and Ella, 25. Vance and his wife, Usha, share three children: Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2.
Aniston’s comments come a week after Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, picked Vance as his vice president at the Republican National Convention ahead of the 2024 election.
The Emmy-winning actress has previously addressed the false pregnancy rumors that she’s dealt with throughout her entire Hollywood career. She told Allure in 2022 that it was “really hard” to see the fake reports.
“All the years and years and years of speculation…. It was really hard,” Aniston said at the time. “I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would have given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it.”
Before that, she wrote an essay for the Huffington Post in 2016 about how completely “fed up” she was with the ongoing pregnancy speculations.
“Here’s where I come out on this topic: We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone,” the Murder Mystery 2 actress wrote. “Let’s make that decision for ourselves and for the young women in this world who look to us as examples. Let’s make that decision consciously, outside of the tabloid noise. We don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own ‘happily ever after’ for ourselves.”
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