Veteran American actress Jennifer Aniston criticized JD Vance for the comments he made in his past about women without children.
In 2021, Vance appeared on Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show, and told Carlson that the United States 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 want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
In the resurfaced clip, which re-gained traction this week on social media, Vance said, “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. 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?”
In response to his comments, Jennifer also talked about her fertility struggles.
“All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day,” Aniston wrote in her post.
“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.”
In 2022, Aniston gave rare comments in an Allure cover story, sharing for the first time that she struggled with her fertility and underwent IVF.
“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” Aniston said, reflecting on her 30s and 40s.
“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’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
Anniston has had painful media coverage where they talked about how she chose her career over giving birth to her own children.
In her Allure interview, Aniston said the media’s narrative that she “was just selfish” and “just cared about my career” was painful.
“God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child,” she said in 2022. “And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a kid. It was absolute lies.”
