Usha Vance has announced that she is pregnant and expecting a baby boy.
‘We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July,’ the Second Lady’s office posted on X.
Vice President JD Vance, 41, and Usha, 40, added that they are ‘grateful to the military doctors who take excellent care of our family.’
Usha is the first Second Lady to fall pregnant while in office, and she will be the first mother in the White House since Jacqueline Kennedy gave birth to Patrick Bouvier Kennedy in 1963.
The Vances who met at Yale Law School, married in 2014 and share two sons, Ewan, 8, and Vivek, 5, and a daughter, four-year-old Mirabel.
The announcement comes amid vicious rumors about the couple’s marriage after Usha was spotted without her wedding ring on several public outings.
A spokesman for Usha explained to the Daily Mail last month that she is ‘a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.’
JD Vance, in an interview on December 4 told NBC News, that ‘we kind of get a kick out of’ the rumors.
‘With anything in life, you take the good with the bad,’ he added. ‘You accept that there are some sacrifices and there are some very good things that come along with it, too.
Usha and JD Vance on their wedding day
The couple who met at Yale Law School, married in 2014 and share two sons, Ewan, 8, and Vivek, 5, and a daughter, four-year-old Mirabel
The vice president’s wife rarely grants interviews and typically avoids the media spotlight.
The pair met in 2013 when they attended the same classes at Yale and JD was so smitten that he told her that he loved her after their first date.
In his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, JD referred to Usha as his ‘Yale spirit guide,’ as he had come from a working-class background and she is the daughter of Indian immigrant academics – able to help him navigate the elite Ivy League culture.
JD has described his feelings during their courtship as ‘overwhelming’. The couple’s friends and even their professor noted that he was visibly ‘lovesick.’
The couple had two wedding ceremonies in the Christian and Hindu traditions.
On June 14, 2014, they were married in Kentucky where much of the Vance clan comes from, in a rustic, outdoor ceremony.
Shortly afterwards they held a traditional Hindu ceremony to honor Usha’s heritage where the pair wore bright, Indian garb.
JD sparked controversy in October when he told an event that he hoped his wife will convert to Christianity at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi
) Vice President JD Vance (C), alongside his daughter Mirabel (L) and Second Lady Usha Vance (R) pose next to a pardoned turkey named Gobble in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, November 25
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance arrive at Joint Base Andrews following a trip to Israel, on October 24, 2025 in Maryland
Erika Kirk and US Vice President JD Vance embrace at the Pavilion at Ole Miss on the campus of the University of Mississippi on October 29
Vance, who converted to Catholicism five years into his marriage with Usha, answered a student’s question, stating: ‘Do I hope that eventually she is somehow moved by what I was moved by in church? Yeah, honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.’
He added: ‘But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me.’
Vance’s comments sparked a backlash, including from the Hindu American Foundation, which cited a history of Christians attempting to convert Hindus.
At the same event, Vance hugged the late Charlie Kirk’s wife Erika. She placed her hand on the back of his head and he held her waist.
The intimate clinch sparked another wave of gossip about his marriage to Usha.
