JD Vance Claps Back at Jennifer Aniston in Their Feud Over ‘Childless Cat Ladies’

Dan Clarendon
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JD Vance, Jennifer Aniston
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After Jennifer Aniston called JD Vance out over his “childless cat ladies” comment, the Republican vice-presidential candidate has hit back, calling the Friends star’s rebuke “disgusting.”

The dispute started last week after social media rediscovered comments Vance made in 2021, in which he complained to Fox News that the United States was being run 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 added: “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. 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 two stepchildren, and Buttigieg welcomed twins about a month after Vance made those comments, according to The New York Times.)

Aniston, currently an Emmy nominee for her role on The Morning Show, reacted to Vance’s resurfaced comments in her Instagram Stories. “I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of the United States,” she wrote, per CNN. “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.”

(Aniston opened about her fertility struggles and her experience with IVF in a 2022 Allure interview.)

On Megyn Kelly’s SiriusXM show on Friday, July 26, Vance expressed disgust at Aniston’s comments.

“You have Hollywood celebrities saying, ‘Oh, well, JD Vance, what if your daughter suffered fertility problems?’” he said. “Well, first of all, that’s disgusting because my daughter is 2 years old. And second of all, if she had fertility problems, as I said in that speech, I would try everything I could to try to help her because I believe families and babies are a good thing.”

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Vance also claimed his “cat ladies” comment was taken out of context, that he said “explicitly” in his original that he wasn’t talking about people who couldn’t have children, and that he was “talking about people who have turned anti-child into the ethic of their entire party.”

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board also railed against Vance’s “censorious views about women who don’t have children,” saying in an opinion that the Ohio senator’s “cat ladies” comment is “the sort of smart-aleck crack that gets laughs in certain right-wing male precincts … but it doesn’t play well with the millions of female voters, many of them Republican, who will decide the presidential race.”

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    Reader

    Jennifer was just "telling it, like it is." She's right about this.

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  2. R

    Reader

    Uh, that's rich, jd vance's attitude is disgusting.

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    1. R

      Reader

      Agree. And a vote for DonOld Trump may be a vote for JDV for President!

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    Lorr9539

    Another man who wants to go back to The 50s with a woman in the kitchen pregnant and wearing an apron. Well done Jenn.

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    Rob Webb

    I think JD Vance is just another Trump puppet that licks the boots of the miserable Donnie Trump. What a blowhard,can't think for himself and alwaystrying to make theiserable Donnie Trump happy even though he is dragging the party through the mud of craziness. They deserve each other. A couple of losers!!

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    Reader

    Dump ol'JD

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    Rob Webb

    Ps. JD is a fat mouthed disgusting person anyway that's got his head so far up DT's butt that he feels it when DT's Mistress spanks him!

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    Reader

    I love my kids and cats. JD and the rest of the MAGA sickos who think child bearing makes one superior in some way continue to prove their idiocy. We do not need the likes of DT and JD attempting to lead this country. Thank you for the continuous reminders JD. Ms. Anniston...thank you for calling him out.

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    Reader

    Nothing but cat ladies flooding the comments!! 😆

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      Reader

      The subject is still ...personal to that person. Why is he or you in their business?? Who is he or you to put your thoughts /feelings on those cat ladies??? What about those ladies without cats or children. Vance is a creep with a sketchy background.

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    Reader

    His concern of a barren future is merited.

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