Jennifer Aniston hits out at Trump VP JD Vance over “childless cat ladies” comments

25 July, 2024

Jennifer Aniston has hit out at Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate JD Vance for resurfaced comments calling Democrat women a “bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives”.

On Wednesday (July 25), the Friends star shared a clip of Vance making the comments on her Instagram story, writing: “I truly can’t believe that this is coming from a potential VP of the United States.”

Aniston also took the opportunity to address Vance directly and criticise his stance on IVF.

“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 wrote. “Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.”

Vance made the “cat lady” comments during a 2021 Fox News interview, where he questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ leadership capabilities because she does not have biological children.

Vance said in the interview that the country was run by a “bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives” who are “making the country miserable too”.

He added: “Look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” Vance said. “How does it make any sense we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”

The clip has gone viral in the build up to the November presidential election, for which Harris is now running as the Democrat candidate after President Joe Biden stepped down.

Aniston, who does not have any children, has been open about her experience with IVF in the past.

In a 2016 Huffington Post essay, Aniston wrote that women don’t need to be “married or mothers to be complete”.

“We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone,” she wrote in the essay. “Let’s make that decision for ourselves and for the young women in this world who look to us as examples.”

Elsewhere, Aniston was recently received a Best Actress Emmy nomination for her performance in the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show. You can find the full list of this year’s nominees here.

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