Jennifer Aniston blasts JD Vance over 'childless cat ladies' comment from 2021 interview

WASHINGTON (TND) — Actor Jennifer Aniston is speaking out on social media about her distaste for a comment J.D. Vance made during a news interview a few years ago when he was running for a seat in the Senate.

Aniston shared a post on Instagram that includes video of the segment, showing Vance talking to then-FOX News host Tucker Carlson. In the video, Vance said women who haven't given birth are "childless cat ladies" and don't have "a direct stake" in the U.S.

"I truly can't believe this is coming from a potential VP of the United States," Aniston wrote in an Instagram story Wednesday. "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, 55, has been vocal about her fertility struggles. In 2022, she told Allure she faced several challenges while trying to conceive, including "intense media scrutiny" and unsuccessful in vitro fertilization, or IVF.

"I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it," she told the media outlet. "I would've given anything if someone had said to me, 'Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.' You just don't think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed."

The video of Vance resurfaced on social media after former President Donald Trump, who is seeking a second term, announced Vance would be his running mate. President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, with Vice President Kamala Harris pursuing the Democratic party's nomination.

Harris, who is married to Doug Emhoff, is the step-mother to two children.

"It doesn't make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it," Vance previously told Carlson. "We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childish 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. And it's just a basic fact. If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] -- the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without have 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?"

Aniston then shared a clip of Harris at the 2018 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. Harris asks Kavanaugh if he can "think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?”

Kavanaugh responds, “I am not thinking of any right now.”

Next, Aniston posted a cartoon from The New Yorker that shows a child upset with his mother.

"So, I can't tell a lie but the Supreme Court gets to do whatever the f*** it wants?" the child says to his mom.

***WARNING: The following image contains graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.***

According to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, few Americans fully endorse the idea that a fertilized egg should have the same rights as a pregnant woman.

The new survey comes as questions grow around reproductive health access in the continued fallout from the decision by the Supreme Court to end federal abortion protections. The poll found that a solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban as a rising number support access to abortions for any reason.

Pro-life advocates are increasingly pushing for broader measures that would give rights and protections to embryos and fetuses, which could have massive implications for fertility treatments and other areas of health care.

Aniston rose to fame for her role as Rachel Green on NBC's hit sitcom "Friends," which aired from 1994 to 2004. She earned multiple awards for the role, including an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild award.

She has also starred in movies such as "Office Space," "Rock Star," and "Marley & Me," just to name a few. More recently, she has starred alongside Reese Witherspoon in the Apple TV+ series "The Morning Show."

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The Associated Press contributed to this report.