In response to a recently resurfaced 2021 video of Republican Vice Presidential nominee and current United States senator from Ohio JD Vance saying on the since canceled FOX News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that women who haven’t given birth were “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives” and have “no direct stake” in the future of the United States, actress Jennifer Aniston (“Friends”) has called out Vance in a post published via her Instagram story.
In a conversation with Tucker Carlson, Vance said, “We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it’s just the basic fact.” He added, “They are obsessed with their jobs, they’re obsessed with their wealth and their fortunes, and they look at middle America, people who are actually pretty happy with their lives and the choices they’ve made, and they hate normal Americans for choosing family over these ridiculous D.C. and New York status games.”
During last week’s Republican National Convention, Vance accepted his nomination for Vice President of the United States alongside former president Donald J. Trump, who received the nomination for President. In November, Trump is expected to run against current Vice President Kamala Harris after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. At press time, a Vice Presidential candidate to run alongside Harris had not been announced.
“If you are a miserable cat lady, you should not force your misery on the rest of the country,” continued Vance in his comments to Carlson while specifically citing Harris, New York Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (now Secretary of Transportation) as examples of politicians within the Democrat party who are childless, saying, “The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
It should be noted that Vance’s comments pre-dated the August 2021 announcement by Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten Glezman, that they were set to become parents to two fraternal twins, who were later born on September 4, 2021.
“I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of the United States,” said the traditionally non-politicalAniston, who is the daughter of the late John Anison. “All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day,” continued Aniston in her Instagram 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.”
Aniston, who has not yet become a mother herself, once said in an undated “Good Morning America” interview, “What family means to me is the family I’ve chosen. And my friends and my partner are truly my family.”
You can watch a portion of Vance’s interview with former FOX News host Carlson below.