Jennifer Aniston has taken issue with JD Vance’s description of some of the most powerful women in US politics as “childless cat ladies”. Writing on Instagram, the actor said: “I truly cannot believe this is coming from a potential VP. All I can say is .
.. Mr Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day”.
Aniston was responding to recently resurfaced 2021 comments by Vance, who told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the US 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.” He continued: “Look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. How does it make any sense we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?” Aniston has been increasingly vocal about her own struggles with fertility, including failed attempts at aided conception.
Aniston added to her post that she hoped Vance’s own daughter “will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.” Vance, who has three children has been vocal about his opposition to abortion and even fertility treatment.
Speaking last week at a campaign speech in Michigan, Harris drew attention to the stances adopted on women’s rights by Trump’s new ru.