Jennifer Aniston has joined the chorus of women calling out J.D. Vance for his views regarding women’s bodies and rights.
After Vance was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate, a 2021 clip resurfaced of him describing women who don’t have children as “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.” In the clip, Vance says Democrats like Vice-President Kamala Harris and Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez are running the country even though, as he sees it, they “don’t really have a direct stake” in it because they don’t have biological children.
JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America. pic.twitter.com/3DJY3pQTGe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 22, 2024
On Wednesday, Aniston responded to Vance’s comments, writing in an Instagram Story that she “truly can’t believe that this is coming from a potential VP of the United States.” She went on: “All I can say is … Mr Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day.” She added that she hopes Vance’s daughter “will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.” Harris called attention to a similar point last week, when she described Vance as “an individual who has made every indication that he is for a national abortion ban” and “participated in blocking protections for IVF” during a speech in Michigan. Aniston, who doesn’t have children, has talked about undergoing IVF and previously said that women “are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child.” Online, child-free women have rallied behind Harris and backed up Aniston. Some reminded Vance that a certain influential blonde pop star with no children and three cats has yet to endorse a candidate.
Wait till this cat lady unleashes her power to the young voters pic.twitter.com/1rAPbruZGH
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) July 23, 2024
While some Republicans have taken issue with the fact that Harris hasn’t given birth to children, it’s not accurate that she’s childless: the vice-president is the stepmother of Doug Emhoff’s two children, Ella and Cole. Emhoff’s ex-wife, Kerstin Emhoff, also chimed in, telling the New York Times on Wednesday that the criticisms of Harris not having her own children “are baseless attacks.” She added: “For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I. She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present. I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.” Ella Emhoff backed her mom up, writing on her Instagram Story on Thursday, “How can you be ‘childless’ when you have cutie pie kids like Cole and I?” She added: “I love my three parents.”
