Kamala Harris’ Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff Says 'I Love My Three Parents’ in Response to JD Vance's 'Childless' Comment

This week, a clip from 2021 of Vance calling women in government "childless cat ladies" resurfaced.

July 25, 2024
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Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, had some choice words for JD Vance following sexist comments he made about the current vice president.

Emhoff took to her Instagram Stories on Thursday to slam Vance for calling Harris a “childless cat lad[y].”

“How can you be ‘childless’ when you have cutie pie kids like cole and I?”she wrote on her IG Stories, also referring to her brother, Cole Emhoff. She added, “I love my three parents.”

She also included a screenshot of remarks from her mother, Kerstin Emhoff, who defended Harris on CNN.

“These are baseless attacks,” Kerstin said. “For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I. She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective and always present. I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.”

“@kemhoff say it louder for the people in the back,” Ella wrote.

This week, a Tucker Carlson interview from 2021 resurfaced, which saw Donald Trump’s VP pick saying, “We are effectively run in this country … by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

Kerstin and Doug Elmhoff were married from 1992 until 2008, and share 25-year-old Ella and 29-year-old Cole. Harris married Doug in 2014.

Jennifer Aniston blasted Vance for his resurfaced comments as well.

"I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of the United States," she wrote on 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.”

On Sunday, Joe Biden dropped out of the upcoming presidential election, allowing Harris to step up and become the Democratic party's nominee.

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