Second Lady Usha Vance claps back at New York Times commentary on her body-hugging maternity fashion: Heres the receipt

That’s Mrs.Vance if ya nasty.Second Lady Usha Vance took a jab at The New York Times after an article commented on the “political significance” of her pregnancy — including a dress she wore on her podcast show “Storytime with the Second Lady.”Mrs.

Vance made Second Lady history as the first spouse of a vice president to be expecting a child since 1870.The last vice-presidential wife to be pregnant was Ellen Colfax, wife of Vice President Schuyler Colfax.Vance, who is expecting her fourth child with the Vice President, hit back at the NYT after it highlighted the messaging surrounding the prominent pregnant women in the Trump administration.Most notably, Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

All three women announced pregnancies within weeks of each other.The New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman wrote the story, “The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image.”Friedman writes, “That three such prominent women in the MAGA movement were pregnant at pretty much the same time was, indubitably, a coincidence.But for an administration that has such an intuitive and strategic understanding of the power of aesthetics that an unspoken dress code in which men outfit themselves in the image of the president has developed, it has also become a telling one.” “Together, the women have created a notably consistent, and somewhat paradigm-shifting, picture of the White House’s family and fertility platform,” Friedman added.But that’s not where Vance popped in.

She took aim at Friedman’s line about the Second Lady, “wearing a stretchy coral dress that hugs her stomach.”The writer was referencing an Instagram Reel posted by the Second Lady promoting an interview with her husband, Vice President JD Vance, during a special Father’s Day episode of the ‘Storytime with the Second Lady’ podcast.In a post on X, the Second Lady wrote, “Now that we...