Vice President JD Vance has broken his silence on rumors that his marriage to wife, Usha, is on the rocks, the Daily Mail reported.
The rumors started after Usha Vance was spotted not wearing her wedding ring on some occasions.
Vance in an interview with NBC News dismissed the rumors, saying that the Second Couple find the speculation over the missing wedding ring humorous.
“I think we kind of get a kick out of it,” Vance said.
Speaking of the couple’s high profile in the political world, the veep went on, “With anything in life, you take the good with the bad. You accept that there are some sacrifices and there are some very good things that come along with it, too. But our marriage is as strong as it’s ever been, and I think Usha’s really taken to it, and it’s been kind of cool to see how she’s developed and evolved in this new role.”
Vance did say that the media attention that comes their way has at times been hard on the couple.
“There are certainly ways in which it’s difficult on the family … I’m not going to pretend that it isn’t. But it’s the sacrifice that we signed up for,” he said.
A spokesperson for Usha Vance had previously said that the Second Lady is sometimes without her wedding ring because she “does a lot of dishes, gives a lot of baths and forgets her ring sometimes.”
Vance in the interview said that his wife had one time forgotten to put her rings back on after taking a shower.
The couple was already in a car ready to travel to the White House when the discovery was made.
Said Vance, “She was like, ‘Oh, if I don’t go back and get them, there’s going to be some ridiculous psycho who talks about it on social media.’”
The veep continued, “And I was like, ‘Let them. It’s not even worth the trip to run back upstairs.’ So we actually have a little bit of fun with it. And we thought that whole viral social media cycle was kind of funny.”
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