
Jennifer Aniston has criticized U.S. Senator JD Vance for comments he made a few years ago about women politicians who don't have children.
Aniston shared an interview of Vance in an Instagram post in 2021 on a Fox News show, where he was then a candidate for the Ohio Senate. The senator said the United States was being run by "a group of ladies who have cats and not kids who are miserable in their lives and the choices they've made and want to make the rest of the country miserable."
He takes the example of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, of which he says: "It's a fact that Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of The Democrats is controlled by people without children. Doesn't it make any real real meaning that we have handed our country over to people who really don't have an interest in it?"
In response the actress writes: "I really can't believe this is said by a potential vice president of the United States."
Aniston, who usually keeps her personal life private, has spoken publicly about her fertility problems, and has also written two words about the far right's stance on reproductive rights.
"All I can say is... Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter has the chance to have her own children one day. I hope she won't need to resort to IVF as a second option. Because you're trying to take that away from her too," Aniston wrote in her post.
In 2022, Aniston revealed for the first time that she struggled with fertility and underwent IVF (in vitro fertilisation). "I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the way of creating babies," she said among other things.