Jennifer Aniston Fires Back at J.D. Vance's Viral Comments About 'Childless' Women

Jennifer Aniston has some strong words for Donald Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance. The 55-year-old actress took to her Instagram Story on Wednesday to slam Vance's recently resurfaced comments about women without children holding positions of power in the government. 

"I truly can't believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States," she wrote, sharing an image of Vance's viral 2021 interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "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 are trying to take that away from her, too." 

At the time of his interview, Vance spoke out against Vice President Kamala Harris. The 59-year-old highest-ranking female official in U.S. history is now running for president after President Joe Biden announced he would be bowing out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed her for the Democratic presidential nominee.

"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," Vance told Carlson in 2021. "And it's just a basic fact -- you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] -- 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?"

Harris has been married to Doug Emhoff since 2014 and is a stepmother to his two children, 29-year-old Cole and 25-year-old Ella. 

Aniston weighs in after publicly sharing her previous struggles with infertility in a 2022 cover story for Allure magazine. 

The Friends alum opened up in heartbreaking detail about the "hard s**t" she went through in her 30s and 40s, revealing, "I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road."

She added that while the world was speculating, she was trying every means possible to conceive a child. 

"All the years and years and years of speculation... It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it," she shared. "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." 

Since moving on from trying to have a biological child of her own, Aniston said it's a relief. 

"I have zero regrets," she shared. "I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, 'Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.' I don’t have to think about that anymore."

Vance is a Republican senator from Ohio whose 2016 memoir -- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis -- was turned into a 2020 Netflix film directed by Ron Howard with performances by Amy Adams and Glenn Close. 

Trump announced Vance as his VP pick on social media just before accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin earlier this month.

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