Vice President JD Vance posted wedding anniversary greetings for his wife Usha Vance on X. “Happy Anniversary to our lovely Second Lady. 12 years and almost 4 kids later, and we’re still going strong. Love you Usha!” he wrote Sunday, along with posting a picture of the two.
Earlier this year, the couple said they were expecting a fourth child. With that, Usha Vance became the first second lady in 150 years to be pregnant while in office. Historical records show that the last vice-presidential spouse to give birth while her husband served was Ellen Colfax in 1870.
The Vances already have two sons, Ewan and Vivek, along with a daughter named Mirabel.
Vance’s anniversary post raised some eyebrows for the “almost” part, because some believe that went against the pro-life views the vice president touted.
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“‘Almost four’ sure sounds like he doesn’t consider the fetus she’s pregnant with to be a real person yet. Weird,” one X user reacted. “Not JD Vance admitting fetuses aren’t full humans…,” another said.
In a recent interview, Usha Vance had commented on JD Vance’s recent book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” which details his 2019 conversion to Catholicism and how it has shaped his politics, marriage and personal life. She mentioned that she once told her husband “Therapy didn’t work for you; church does.”
Usha Vance, who is the first Indian American and the first person of color to be the Second Lady, also cleared misconceptions about her husband trying to push his faith onto her. “I think people have really cottoned onto the idea at one point that JD was interested in my conversion. And I think that was misunderstood for the fundamental reason that he is Catholic; part of his faith is wanting to spread his faith. But it’s not like he’s proselytizing to me every day,” she said.
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She also mentioned that she often acted as a sounding board for Vance’s political remarks. “Well, she just texts me or calls me, or if we’re sitting in the house together, she’ll just tell me,” JD Vance said. “Usha’s very blunt. It’s one of the things I’ve always loved about Usha from the very beginning.”
Usha Vance also recently talked about her relationship with India, calling it “very personal.”
“It is a very personal relationship because I have family members who are in India, and I have many family members who are in the U.S.,” she said during a fireside chat on the sidelines of the USISPF Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
JD Vance has previously faced backlash for aligning himself with the far right and not doing enough to respond to racism directed against wife.