Jennifer Aniston blasts J.D. Vance over ‘childless cat lady’ attack on Kamala Harris
- The Friends star, who has struggled with infertility, took aim at comments by Trump’s running mate on people who don’t have children
Jennifer Aniston has entered the 2024 election news cycle to call out former US president Donald Trump’s running mate – Hillbilly Elegy author and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance – over his remarks about people who haven’t borne children.
The Emmy-winning Friends star on Wednesday shared her disbelief over a resurfaced clip of the Republican nominee for US vice-president, who in 2021 likened Democrats like Vice-President Kamala Harris to “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made”.
Vance said: “They want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”
Posting a tweet about the clip on her Instagram story, the actor wrote: “I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of the United States.”
The Morning Show star, who opened up about her infertility struggles in 2022, then directed her comments to Vance himself while alluding to the Republican Party’s support of personhood laws that would affect access to abortion, in vitro fertilisation procedures and certain types of contraception.
“All I can say is … Mr Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day,” she wrote. “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.”
