Jennifer Aniston looked to be in great spirits on Thursday evening after slamming J.D. Vance's viral comments about 'childless cat ladies.'
The Friends actress was backstage at the Oh Mary! show on Broadway in New York City.
The 55-year-old beauty wore a flattering spaghetti strap beige summer dress as she showed off a fresh summer tan.
Her long blonde hair was worn down over her bare shoulders as she added a beige purse and gold bangle bracelets to her look.
The ex-wife of Brad Pitt posed with cast members Bianca Leigh, Hannah Solow, Bill Hader, James Scully, Sara Haines, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Macht and Conrad Ricamora.
Jennifer Aniston looked to be in great spirits on Thursday backstage at the Oh Mary! show on Broadway in New York City. Seen with Bianca Leigh
(L-R) Hannah Solow, Bill Hader, James Scully, Sara Haines, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Macht, Conrad Ricamora, Aniston and Leigh
Jennifer also had on flip flop shoes in a red color. Her necklaces were a long gold pendant and another was a diamond.
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Oh, Mary! is a comedic stage play written by American comedian Cole Escola.
The show opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024, at the Lyceum Theatre, transferring from its off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, earning universal critical acclaim.
Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy starring Escola as a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
Unrequited yearning, alcoholism and suppressed desires abound in this one act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln through the lens of an idiot (Escola).
It now has an extended run on Broadway, it was announced this week.
Also this week Aniston was critical of remarks made by Sen. J.D. Vance over 'childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives' while speaking about Vice President Kamala Harris in 2021.
Aniston took to Instagram Stories on Wednesday with sharp words for Vance, who is running as Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate, atop a clip of him speaking with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.
The 55-year-old beauty wore a flattering spaghetti strap beige summer dress as she showed off a fresh summer tan. Seen with Cole Escola
Her long blonde hair was worn down over her bare shoulders
(L-R) Haines, Goldberg, Escola and Aniston pose backstage
Cole held onto Jennifer's hands as she seemed to be a fan
'I truly can't believe that this is coming from a potential VP of the United States,' the Friends star said on the social media platform. '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.'
The comments Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Harris´ leadership because she did not have biological children resurfaced in recent days, testing the young conservative senator in his early days campaigning as part of the Republicans' presidential ticket.
The ex-wife of Brad Pitt wore two gold necklaces
(L-R) Goldberg, a very excited Conrad Ricamora and Aniston huddle together
During Vance's bid for the Senate in Ohio, he said in a Fox News interview that 'we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats,' and referred to them as 'a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they´ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.'
He said that included Harris, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat.
Vance said to Carlson in the interview, 'It's just a basic fact - you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC - the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?'
Vance, 39, and wife Usha Vance, 38, have three kids - sons Ewan, six, and Vivek, four, and daughter Mirabel, two.
Aniston had a very youthful glow as she wore light makeup
Whoopi held up the Playbill for Oh Mary! as she posed with cast members
Harris became stepmother to two children - Cole, 29, and daughter Ella, 25 - when she married entertainment lawyer Douglas Emhoff in 2014. Buttigieg announced he and his husband adopted infant twins in September 2021, more than a month before Vance made those comments.
Aniston, who can currently be seen on Apple TV+'s The Morning Show, has been candid about her issues with fertility and trying to have a child over the years.
Aniston, who was previously in marriages with Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux, chat with the publication Allure in December of 2022 about how she had past sought to have children more than a decade back.
Aniston told the publication, 'I would say my late 30s, 40s, I'd gone through really hard s***, and if it wasn't for going through that, I would've never become who I was meant to be.
'That's why I have such gratitude for all those s****y things. Otherwise, I would've been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. And now, I don't f***ing care.'
She expounded on her feelings, saying she 'was trying to get pregnant' during that timeframe.
'It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,' Aniston said. 'All the years and years and years of speculation ... it was really hard.'
Aniston opened up about the multiple methods she explored in her attempts to become pregnant.
'I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it,' Aniston said. 'I was throwing everything at it. I would've given anything if someone had said to me, "Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor." You just don't think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.'
Aniston said things were 'really hard' for her emotionally in the years there were rumors she was pregnant; and the insinuations that she chose her show business career over having children were 'absolute lies.'
She said in the 2022 interview: 'I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, "Can I?" I don't have to think about that anymore.'
In November of 2022, an insider told People that the A-list actress remained 'at peace' and 'very happy in her life,' adding, 'She's in a great place, and she knows that ... kids or no kids, it didn't change her.'
The comments Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Harris' leadership because she did not have biological children have resurfaced. Pictured Monday in Virginia
Aniston in July of 2016 penned a piece for Huffington Post in which she stated her views on the years of speculation over her having kids, and how she felt validated regardless of if she's a parent or not.
'Here's where I come out on this topic: We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child,' Aniston said. 'We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone.'
She added: 'Let's make that decision for ourselves and for the young women in this world who look to us as examples ... we don't need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own "happily ever after" for ourselves.'
The 2021 clip of Vance has spread online, with former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sharing it in a Tuesday post on X and adding sarcastically 'what a normal, relatable guy who certainly doesn´t hate women having freedoms.'
The recirculated comment may be a sign of the GOP ticket´s troubles appealing to women voters, and on the issue of reproductive rights.
It follows the explosive entrance in the race of Harris, who secured the support of enough delegates to become the official nominee in less than 32 hours after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid.
It also lays out some of the fears expressed by strategists that Trump took a political risk in picking a running mate who has been in Congress less than two years and is largely untested on a bigger stage. Trump liked Vance´s telegenic qualities and said he reminded him of 'a young Abraham Lincoln.'
The Harris campaign contested Vance´s stance, saying 'every single American has a stake in this country´s future.'
'Ugly, personal attacks from J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are in line with their dangerous Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion, decimate our democracy, and gut Social Security,' said James Singer, a Harris campaign spokesman, referring to a policy and personnel plan for a second Trump term that was crafted by a host of former administration officials.
Trump has been trying to distance himself from it. Project 2025 says the Department of Health and Human Services should 'pursue a robust agenda' to protect 'the fundamental right to life.'
However, the document contains no proposals to cut Social Security, though the Heritage Foundation that oversaw it has long pushed for changes to the entitlement. The plan outlines a dramatic expansion of presidential power and a plan to fire as many as 50,000 government workers.
Former President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump selected Vance as his vice presidential candidate on July 15. Pictured at a Michigan rally July 20
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