Actress Jennifer Aniston has criticized Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance for past comments he made about childless women.
Aniston shared a screenshot of Vance’s appearance on Instagram and wrote: “I truly cannot believe this is coming from a potential Vice President of the United States.”
In a 2021 appearance on Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show, Vance, who was then running for Senate in Ohio, told Carlson that the United States was being run by “a bunch of childless women with cats who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
In the resurfaced clip, which 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 childless people. And how does it make sense that we would hand over our country to people who have no real vested interest in it?”
Aniston — who typically keeps her personal life private but has spoken publicly about her fertility journey — also wrote about Vance’s stance on reproductive rights.
“All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray your daughter is lucky enough to one day have children of her own,” the actress wrote in her post. “I hope she doesn’t have to resort to IVF as a second option. Because you’re trying to take that away from her too,” she added.
In 2022, Aniston made rare comments in an Allure cover story, sharing for the first time that she struggled with her fertility and underwent in vitro fertilization.
“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging journey for me, the journey of making babies,” Aniston said, reflecting on her 30s and 40s.
“All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was doing 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 about it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed,” she recounted.
Aniston’s remarks about Vance’s comments come from a personal perspective. Throughout her career, she has been subjected to excessive tabloid coverage, which has repeatedly incited her relationships over the years and questioned why she doesn’t have children.
In the interview with Allure magazine, Aniston said the media narrative that she was “just selfish” and “only cared about my career” was hurtful.
“God forbid a woman should be successful and not 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 didn’t give him a child. It was absolute lies,” she added.
On Wednesday, Aniston also appeared to lend her support to Harris by reposting a 2018 video of Harris pressing then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on abortion rights.
(The video Aniston reposted was shared by actress Allison Janney.)
Reproductive health will be a key issue in this election. Many women in Hollywood have been outspoken about reproductive rights and will align themselves with Harris, who has been the Biden administration’s leading voice on abortion and women’s health.
A CNN has reached out to Aniston’s rep for further comment on her post about Vance and his apparent endorsement of Harris.
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