Jennifer Aniston slams JD Vance for 'childless cat ladies' remarks: 'I pray that your daughter...'

Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston on Wednesday (Jul 24) slammed JD Vance, who is Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's running mate, for his "childless cat ladies" remark. Vance's comments are old but have gone recently viral. 

Taking to her Instagram Stories, the "Friends" actress posted a screenshot of a social media post which showed Ron Filipkowski sharing a 2021 "Tucker Carlson Tonight" interview clip with Vance. 

Alongside the 28-second clip, Filipkowski, who is the editor-in-chief of the MeidasTouch Network, wrote: "JD Vance says women who haven't given birth like Kamala Harris are 'childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,' and have 'no direct stake' in America." 

While replying to the video, Aniston wrote, "I truly can’t believe that 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." 

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"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," she added. 

Similar to Aniston, who opened up about her fertility struggles in a cover story for Allure in 2022, Vance's comments didn't go well with dozens of netizens, who shared their strong opinions on social media and criticised it. 

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Why did Vance say 'childless cat ladies'? 

He made these remarks during "Tucker Carlson Tonight" show which was aired on Fox News in July 2021. At that time, Vance was running for Ohio's US Senate seat. 

Vance had said, "We are 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 wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too." 

"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," he added. 

He added, "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?" 

Watch the old video here: 

Harris, the Democratic Party's likely presidential candidate since Joe Biden dropped out, has two stepchildren with her husband Douglas Emhoff. And weeks after Vance's interview, Buttigieg and husband Chasten welcomed twins. 

(With inputs from agencies)