Jennifer Aniston has hit out at Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance for referring to women without children as “cat ladies”.
The actress shared a clip from a 2021 Fox News interview with Mr Vance on her Instagram story, in which he said: “We’re effectively run in this country… 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.”
He went on to name vice president Kamala Harris, US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, before adding: “The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. How does it make sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a stake in it?”
The 55-year-old actress shared the clip with the caption: “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 are trying to take that away from her, too.”
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Mr Vance, 39, was one of 46 Republican senators who opposed the Right to IVF Act in June, which would have made it a federal right to have access to IVF treatment.
In 2022, Aniston revealed to Allure magazine that she had undergone IVF to try to have children when she was in her 30s and 40s, but the attempts did not result in any pregnancies.
“All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it,” she said.
“I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favour.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
She said she had “zero regrets” and added: “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.”