Jennifer Aniston calls out Republican Senator J.D Vance’s ‘childless women’ comment
Actress Jennifer Aniston is taking aim at comments made by Republic Senator J.D. Vance about women who don’t have children.
The actress shared resurfaced comments from the politician – who could become the US’s next Vice President after Donald Trump selected him as his running mate in the 2024 Presidential election.
In the video, he called women like Vice President Kamala Harris who had not given birth, “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
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In his remarks he also mentioned Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, adding, “It’s just a basic fact – you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC – the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” Vance told Carlson. And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
Aniston wrote in a rare political message on her Instagram stories, “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. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.
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“I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States.”
The 55-year-old has been vocal about her own journey with infertility and IVF, not having been able to have children.
In an interview with Allure, she mentioned how hurtful it was being plagued with pregnancy rumours throughout her career.
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“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” she said.
“All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. 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.”
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Especially difficult was the assumption that she chose her career over her children, which was rumoured to lead to the downfall of her marriage with Brad Pitt.
“It was absolute lies,” she said, adding that the “narrative that I was just selfish… I just cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child. And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a kid.”
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