Jennifer Aniston isn’t afraid of getting political. The actress recently reacted to the Republican nominee for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election, JD Vance, who previously labeled women without children as “miserable cat ladies.”
A viral clip from a July 2021 Fox News interview, where Vance made these remarks, has garnered major backlash online. In the interview, Vance said, “We’re 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 that they’ve made. And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. 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. 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?”
On July 24th, Aniston took to her Instagram Stories to voice her opinion on Vance’s controversial comments. She wrote, “I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of the United States. 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 were trying to take that away from her too.”
This issue touches close to home for Aniston, who has been candid about her own difficulties in having children. In a 2022 interview with Allure, she revealed her struggles with fertility, explaining, “It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road. I was trying to get pregnant. 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. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
Despite her past struggles, Aniston shares that she is now at peace with that chapter of her life being over. She said, “I have zero regrets. I actually feel a little relief now because there’s no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about that anymore.”
Aniston’s response adds to the ongoing conversation about women’s reproductive rights and the pressures society places on women regarding motherhood.
