Jennifer Aniston has some strong words for Donald Trump‘s running mate, JD Vance. The 55-year-old actress took to her Instagram Story on Wednesday to slam Vance’s recently resurfaced comments about childless women holding positions of power in government.
“I truly cannot believe this is coming from a potential Vice President of the United States,” she wrote, sharing a screenshot of Vance’s viral 2021 interview with then Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is lucky enough to have children one day. I hope she doesn’t have to resort to IVF as a second option. Because you’re trying to take that away from her, too.”
At the time of his interview, Vance spoke out against the vice president Kamala Harris. The 59-year-old highest-ranking official in U.S. history is now running for president after President Joe Biden announced he would be bending outwards of the 2024 presidential race and supported her for the Democratic presidential candidate.
“We are effectively run in this country — by the Democrats, by our corporate oligarchs — by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country unhappy as well,” Vance told Carlson in 2021. “And it’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by childless people. And how does it make sense that we’ve handed our country over to people who really have no direct interest in it?”
Harris has been married to Doug Emhoff since 2014 and is stepmother to his two children, Cole, 29, and Ella, 25.
Aniston gives her opinion after public comment sharing their past struggles with infertility in a 2022 cover story for Fascination magazine.
O Friends former student opened up in heartbreaking detail about the “hardship” she endured in her 30s and 40s, revealing: “I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging path for me, the baby-making path.”
She added that while the world was speculating, she was trying every possible means to conceive a child.
“All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it,” she shared. “I was throwing everything up in the air. I would have given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think like that. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
Since giving up trying to have a biological child, Aniston said it’s been a relief.
“I have no regrets,” she shared. “I actually feel a little bit of relief now because there’s no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about it anymore.”
Vance is a Republican senator from Ohio whose 2016 memoir — Country Elegy: Memories of a Family and Culture in Crisis — was made into a Netflix film in 2020, directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.
Trump announced Vance as his choice for vice president on social media shortly before accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, earlier this month.
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