Jennifer Aniston slammed comments made by Sen. JD Vance about “childless cat ladies who are miserable with their own lives” while speaking about Vice President Kamala Harris in 2021.
Aniston, 55, took to Instagram Stories on Wednesday with harsh words for Vance, who is running as Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, as well as a clip of him speaking to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.
“I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential Vice President of the United States,” the Friends star said on the social media platform. “All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray your daughter is lucky enough to have children of her own one day.
“I hope he doesn’t have to resort to IVF as a second option, because you’re trying to take that away from him, too.”
Vance’s comments in 2021 questioning the vice president Harris’s Questions about his leadership due to not having biological children have resurfaced, putting the young conservative senator to the test in his first days of campaigning as part of the Republican presidential ticket.
Jennifer Aniston, 55, slammed comments made by Sen. JD Vance, 39, about “childless cat ladies who are miserable with their own lives” while speaking about Vice President Kamala Harris in 2021. Pictured last month in Los Angeles
Aniston, 55, took to Instagram Stories on Wednesday with harsh words for Vance, who is running as Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, alongside a clip of him speaking to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.
During his campaign for the Ohio Senate, Vance said in an interview with Fox News that “we’re actually run in this country by Democrats,” referring to them as “a bunch of cat-loving, childless women who are miserable with their own lives and the choices they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
He said they included Harris, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat.
Vance told Carlson in the interview: “It’s a basic fact: If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And what’s the point of us having handed our country over to people who don’t really have a vested interest in it?”
Vance, 39, and his wife Usha Vance, 38, have three sons, Ewan, six, and Vivek, four, and daughter Mirabel, two.
Harris became a stepmother to two children — son Cole, 29, and daughter Ella, 25 — when she married entertainment lawyer Douglas Emhoff in 2014. Buttigieg announced that he and his husband adopted twin boys in September 2021, more than a month before Vance made those comments.
The 2021 clip began to spread online. Hillary Clinton shared it in a Tuesday post on X, sarcastically adding: “What a normal, relatable guy who certainly doesn’t hate women having freedoms.”
The circulating comment may be a sign of the Republican ticket’s struggles to appeal to women voters and on the issue of reproductive rights. It follows Harris’ explosive entry into the race, securing enough delegate support to become the official nominee less than 32 hours after President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign.
It also exposes some of the fears expressed by strategists that Trump took a political risk by choosing a running mate who has been in Congress for less than two years and who has not been tested on a larger stage. Trump liked Vance’s telegenic qualities and said he reminded him of “a young Abraham Lincoln.”
Harris’ campaign questioned Vance’s stance, saying “every American has a stake in the future of this country.”
Aniston said on social media: “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. Because you are trying to take her away from her too.”
Comments Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Harris’ leadership because she had no biological children have resurfaced, testing the young conservative senator in his early days of campaigning as part of the Republican presidential ticket. Pictured Monday
“The ugly personal attacks from J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are in line with their dangerous Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion, decimate our democracy and gut Social Security,” said James Singer, a spokesman for Harris’ campaign, referring to a policy and personnel plan for a second Trump term that was crafted by a host of former administration officials.
Trump has been trying to distance himself from that. Project 2025 says the Department of Health and Human Services should “pursue a robust agenda” to protect “the fundamental right to life.”
The document, however, contains no proposals to cut Social Security, though the Heritage Foundation that oversaw it has long pushed for entitlement changes. The plan outlines a dramatic expansion of presidential power and a plan to lay off about 50,000 public employees.
Vance’s spokesman said Harris’ campaign is lying about Vance’s views and noted that her record is “plagued by countless failures and disasters.”
“It is well known that Senator Vance has been successful in life in large part due to the influence of strong female role models, such as his grandmother,” spokeswoman Taylor Van Kirk said.
Vance is a former Marine and businessman who is up for election to public office for the first time in 2022. He wrote the 2016 bestseller Hillbilly Elegy and developed a strong relationship with Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and leading MAGA figures, but his personal story of growing up in Appalachia in poverty with a mother battling drug addiction could resonate with voters.
One of the main issues facing Vance is his stance on abortion. Vance has previously said he would support a federal bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but he believes in certain exceptions.
Former President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump selected Vance as his vice presidential nominee on July 15. He is pictured at a rally in Michigan on July 20.
In 2021, Vance floated an idea to allow parents to cast ballots on behalf of their children, saying during a speech at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative nonprofit in Virginia, that people who don’t have children “don’t have as much investment in the future of the country.”
“When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power, you should have more ability to express your voice in our democratic republic than people who don’t have children,” he said.
“Doesn’t this mean that non-parents don’t have as much say as parents?” she said, and critics would ask. “Doesn’t this mean that parents have more say in the functioning of a democracy? Yes, absolutely.”
