Megyn Kelly has slammed Jennifer Aniston after the Hollywood actor criticized Senator JD Vance after his "childless cat ladies" comment reemerged.
The Ohio Republican has continued to receive backlash after remarks he made during a July 2021 appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight were shared online earlier this week. Vance said the Democratic Party was being led by people who did not have a "direct stake" in the future of the country because they didn't have children.
In his criticism, Vance mentioned Vice President Kamala Harris, who has two stepchildren through her husband, Doug Emhoff. He also mentioned New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has since adopted twins with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg.
Aniston—who has previously revealed her IVF struggle—took to her Instagram account to call out the Republican. Now Kelly has added her two cents, saying on Thursday's episode of The Megyn Kelly Show that Vance's comment had been "tongue-in-cheek," and blasting Aniston for her post.
Newsweek emailed spokespeople for Kelly and Aniston for comment on Friday.
"Well now, all this s*** has run, has rained down on him like he hates women and he hates people who have no children and that's not true," Kelly said of Vance.
"But one of the people who weighed in was Jennifer Aniston who writes on her Instagram as follows, '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,' which is not true."
Despite Kelly claiming that Aniston's comments about Vance supporting restrictions on access to IVF being untrue, he voted against the Right to IVF Act in June, which would have protected the accessibility and affordability of IVF services across the U.S.
Kelly also criticized Aniston for not publicly opposing children being allowed to transition. The former Fox News host has been outspoken about her disapproval of a variety of transgender issues, previously calling transgender healthcare "a weird form of conversion therapy" and incorrectly stating that puberty blockers cause sterility.
She continued: "Where was Jennifer Aniston standing up for little girls who are getting their breasts chopped off for political purposes by people who are shoving this gender ideology down their throats without figuring out that they might just be temporarily depressed or who are being forced to compete against boys in high school sports to the point where they wind up partially paralyzed and permanent nerve damage?
"I'm perfectly happy to see her on board the women's rights train but you know what, I haven't seen her there ever before on any of the key issues that don't involve a passing reference and a stupid joke."
Vocal opposition to transgender rights has been growing in America, with people questioning whether transgender women should be allowed to compete in female sporting events and use female restrooms and locker facilities. Gender-affirming hormones, puberty blockers and surgery for minors have also been targeted.
In an interview with Allure in November 2022, Aniston opened up about her fertility struggles and how she underwent IVF treatment in an attempt to get pregnant, while also facing years of people questioning why she hadn't started a family.
"My late 30s, 40s, I'd gone through really hard s***, and if it wasn't for going through that, I would've never become who I was meant to be," Aniston told the magazine. "I was trying to get pregnant.
"All the years and years and years of speculation…It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. 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."
In the resurfaced video of Vance's comments on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the politician was arguing that the U.S. was being led by people who did not have a "direct stake" in the future of the country.
"We're effectively run in this country—via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs—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," Vance said.
"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," he said.
Since Vance's comments resurfaced, conservative women have spoken out against them, suggesting the remarks could damage Trump's 2024 election hopes, given how important the female vote is to the GOP ticket.
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