Jennifer Aniston criticises JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comment

Jennifer Aniston has criticised Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, for resurfaced feedback calling Democrats a “bunch of childless cat women with depressing lives”.

The Associates actress, 55, posted a 2021 interview with Mr Vance that has been broadly shared since his choice as Mr Trump’s working mate for November’s presidential election.

“I really can’t imagine that that is coming from a possible VP of america,” she wrote on Instagram.

“All I can say is… Mr Vance, I pray that your daughter is lucky sufficient to bear youngsters of her personal someday.”

Mr Vance has a two-year-old daughter, and two sons.

“I hope she is not going to want to show to IVF as a second possibility,” Ms Aniston wrote.

“As a result of you are attempting to take that away from her, too.”

The actress has beforehand spoken overtly about her struggles whereas attempting to have youngsters via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).

Final month, Mr Vance voted to dam Democrat-proposed laws to ensure entry to IVF nationwide.

Forward of that vote, Mr Vance and the opposite 48 Senate Republicans signed a letter saying they supported IVF, however that the Democratic invoice was overly broad and “false fearmongering”.

Within the clip, Mr Vance criticised Vice-President Kamala Harris as a result of she has no organic youngsters.

Ms Harris is stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two youngsters.

However Mr Vance instructed former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson the US was run by “a bunch of childless cat women who’re depressing at their very own lives and the alternatives that they’ve made and they also need to make the remainder of the nation depressing too”.

“Have a look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], all the way forward for the Democrats is managed by individuals with out youngsters,” he mentioned.

“How does it make any sense we have turned our nation over to individuals who don’t actually have a direct stake in it?”

Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, posted a response to Mr Vance’s feedback on Instagram on Thursday.

“How will you be ‘childless’ when you will have cutie pie youngsters like cole and I?” the 25-year-old daughter of Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, and his ex-wife, Kerstin Emhoff, wrote. Cole Emhoff is her 29-year-old brother.

The BBC has contacted the Trump-Vance marketing campaign group for remark.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg additionally addressed the feedback earlier this week, talking about adopting twins along with his husband, Chasten.

“The actually unhappy factor is he mentioned that after Chasten and I had been via a reasonably heartbreaking setback in our adoption journey,” Mr Buttigieg instructed CNN’s The Supply programme.

“He couldn’t have identified that – however perhaps that’s why you shouldn’t be speaking about different individuals’s youngsters.”

There has additionally been backlash from followers of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who has no youngsters – and three cats.

“It is daring, for somebody searching for votes, to hone in on ‘childless cat women’ when the chief of Childless Cat Women is Taylor Swift,” British author Caitlin Moran posted on X.

One other X consumer shared the Time journal cowl the place Swift posed with one in all her cats, writing: “Hell hath no fury like a sure childless cat girl who has but to endorse a presidential candidate.”

In 2022, Aniston instructed Attract she wished somebody had instructed her to freeze her eggs.

“It was a difficult highway for me, the baby-making highway,” she mentioned.

“All of the years and years of hypothesis… it was actually arduous.

“I used to be going via IVF, consuming Chinese language teas, you identify it.”

However she had “zero regrets”.

“I’d’ve given something if somebody had mentioned to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do your self a favour.’ You simply do not suppose it. So right here I’m right this moment,” she instructed the journal.

“The ship has sailed.”