Asked what she would say to the women who were offended by the “childless cat ladies” remark, Usha Vance said that her husband would “never ever” want his comments “to hurt someone who is trying to have a family or is struggling with that,” and reiterated that he wants to foster a conversation about improving the lives of families.
“And I also understand there are a lot of other reasons why people may choose not to have families, and many of those reasons are very good,” she said. “I think what I would say is, let’s try to look at the real conversation that he’s trying to have and engage with it and understand for those of us who do have families — for the many of us who want to have families, and for whom it’s really hard — what can we do to make it better? What can we do to make it easier to live in 2024 and live a very full life that isn’t just professional, that also has this kind of rich personal life and community behind it.”
Vance had doubled down on his “childless cat ladies” dig amid backlash for his 2021 comments, telling SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” that it was a “sarcastic comment” and blamed the media for “focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.”
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