Jennifer Aniston has pulled out all the stops to criticize J.D. Vance's 2021 comment that politicians like Vice President Kamala Harris are “kidless cat ladies.”
In her Instagram Story on Wednesday, the actress reposted a video of Vance's interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson during his run for Ohio Senate in 2021. In her post, the actress pointed to Vance's record of blocking access to fertility treatments.
“I can’t believe this is coming from a potential Vice President of the United States,” Aniston wrote, referring to Donald Trump’s potential running mate in the 2024 election. “All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is lucky enough to have children of her own one day.”
“I hope she doesn’t have to resort to IVF as a second option,” she continued. “Because you’re trying to take that option away from her, too.” (Vance voted against the Right to IVF Act, which was intended to protect access to and affordability of IVF.)
In a 2021 interview, Vance told Carlson that the country is run by “a bunch of cat ladies who don’t have kids, who are miserable about their own lives and the choices they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” He added: “Look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Ocasio-Cortez, the entire future of the Democrats is being run by people who don’t have kids.”
But Harris is not childless. She has two adopted children — son Cole and daughter Ella — from her second husband, Douglas Emhoff, while Secretary of State Buttigieg has twins with his wife, Chasten.
In the past, Aniston has been open about her use of IVF, and the difficulty of dealing with pregnancy rumors in the public eye. “All these years and years and years of speculation … it was really hard,” she said. temptation In 2022, “I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese tea, etc. I was doing my best. 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.”
“I have no regrets at all,” she continued. “I actually feel a sense of relief now that I'm not wondering, 'Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. I don't have to think about it anymore.'”
