Second Lady Usha Vance opens up about interfaith parenting with Vice President JD Vance

Second Lady Usha Vance opened up successful a caller interrogation astir however she and hubby JD Vance rise their 3 children successful an interfaith household, arsenic Usha is Hindu and the vice president is Catholic. 

Usha Vance spoke to Meghan McCain connected her podcast, "Citizen McCain," astir raising her 3 children, Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel, astatine the Naval Observatory, arsenic good arsenic the modulation into becoming the 2nd couple.

"At the clip erstwhile I met JD, helium wasn't Catholic, and helium converted aboriginal and erstwhile helium converted, we had a batch of conversations astir that due to the fact that it was really aft we had our archetypal child, possibly it was aft Vivek was calved too," she said. "When you person to Catholicism it comes with respective important obligations, similar to rise your kid successful the religion and each that."

"We had to person a batch of existent conversations astir however bash you bash that, erstwhile I'm not Catholic, and I'm not intending to person oregon thing similar that," Usha continued. 

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Vice President JD Vance, his woman Usha Vance, girl Mirabel and sons Ewan (L) and Vivek airs during their circuit astatine the Taj Mahal successful Agra connected April 23, 2025.  (KENNY HOLSTON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The 2nd woman said it was adjuvant due to the fact that she felt she had a accidental implicit the directions of their lives. 

"So what we've ended up doing is we nonstop our kids to Catholic school, and we person fixed them each the choice, right? They tin take whether they privation to beryllium baptized Catholic and past spell done the full step-by-step process with their classes successful school," she said.

Vance said their oldest kid has done that, and added that they marque going to religion a "family experience." 

"The kids cognize that I'm not Catholic, and they person plentifulness of entree to the Hindu contented from books that we springiness them, to things that we amusement them, to the caller travel to India, and immoderate of the spiritual elements of that visit," Vance continued. 

Usha Vance was besides the taxable of a New York Times profile published Wednesday, which described immoderate friends arsenic "bewildered" by her going from erstwhile being a Democrat to the spouse of a Republican vice president. 

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From left, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin meets with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, his girl Mirabel, his woman Usha, and their sons Ewan and Vivek astatine the Vatican, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP, HO) (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

Others said, however, that she people soured connected the near implicit time, and she was reportedly outraged astatine Democratic attacks connected aboriginal Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his wrenching confirmation process successful 2018; she clerked for Kavanaugh erstwhile helium sat connected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

"People adjacent to the vice president, who went from being a vocal professional of now-President Trump to his moving mate, reason that Ms. Vance went connected a akin but little nationalist travel that soured her connected the left," the Times reported.

Usha Vance spoke to Fox News successful August portion her hubby was connected the run way and told big Ainsley Earhardt however she deals with antagonistic property sum of her husband.

"Sometimes I don't spot it all, and sometimes I bash spot it and I look astatine and think, well, this is not the JD I know, this is not accurate," she said astatine the time. "And different times it mightiness span discussions oregon thoughts astir what we should bash adjacent oregon however we should live. But I deliberation we've been doing this present for a small while, and I've gotten benignant of accustomed to it and grown a spot of a heavy tegument to it."

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U.S. President Donald Trump, his woman Melania, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance with his woman Usha, Tiffany Trump and Eric Trump be the National Day of Prayer Service astatine the Washington National Cathedral successful Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025.   (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

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Usha Vance met JD Vance astatine Yale University, and the mates joined successful 2014. Vice President Vance, 40, is the third-youngest vice president successful past and archetypal millennial to clasp the office, and Usha Vance is the archetypal Indian-American 2nd lady.