Jennifer Aniston did not mince words as she criticized J.D. Vance’s resurfaced 2021 comment that politicians like Vice President Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies.”
On her Instagram Story Wednesday, the actress reposted a video clip of Vance’s interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson as he was running for Ohio senator in 2021. In her post, the actress pointed to Vance’s track record of blocking access to fertility treatments.
“I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States,” Aniston wrote in reference to Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate. “All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day.”
“I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option,” she continued. “Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.” (Vance voted against the Right to IVF Act, which looked to protect accessibility and affordability of IVF.)
In the 2021 interview, Vance told Carlson that the country 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 wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too.” He further lamented, “You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
Harris is not, however, childless. She shares two stepchildren — son Cole and daughter Ella — with Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, while Secretary Buttigieg shares twins with his husband Chasten.
In the past, Aniston has been vocal about her use of IVF, and the difficulty of handling pregnancy rumors in the public eye. “All the years and years and years of speculation … It was really hard,” she told Allure in 2022. “I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would have given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it.”
“I have zero regrets,” she continued. “I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about that anymore.”
