2024-07-25 12:17:07
Donald Trump’s vice president JD Vance made insulting comments about childless women. Now US actress Jennifer Aniston is settling scores with the Republican.
Jennifer Aniston takes aim at JD Vance. “I really can’t believe this is coming from a potential Vice President of the United States,” the actress wrote in her Instagram stories. Vance is running for the US presidency in 2024 as Donald Trump’s running mate for the Republicans. Aniston is referring to comments the 39-year-old made about women without children – and Vice President Kamala Harris in particular.
Three years ago, Vance said in an interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the United States was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country unhappy, too.”
To back up his statement, he also named Kamala Harris as well as the United States Secretary of Transportation and a US congresswoman: “It’s just a basic fact – look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
Aniston posted an X-post on her Instagram story referencing this 2021 interview and wrote: “All I can say is, Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is lucky enough to have children of her own one day.” The “Friends” star herself has a history of unsuccessful in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, a method of artificial insemination. She continued, addressing Vance: “I hope she doesn’t have to resort to IVF as a second option. Because you’re trying to take that away from her too.”
Aniston is probably alluding to the ruling of the Supreme Court of the US state of Alabama announced earlier this year. The Republican judges decided that frozen fertilized eggs should be considered human beings. As a result, several clinics in the state stopped IVF treatments and canceled appointments that had already been scheduled, as the New York Times reported. The reason: Up until now, leftover eggs had been disposed of. However, the ruling has now raised fears that charges of unlawful killing could be brought in the case.
Aniston’s wish to have children remained unfulfilled. In an interview with “Allure” in 2022, she spoke openly about this time: “I did everything for it. I would have given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think about it.”
Although Kamala Harris has no children of her own, she is stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two children. JD Vance has two sons and a daughter with his wife Usha Vance.