Usha Vance charmingly embraced her own look when asked how she feels about fitting in with the “blondes and Botox” that make up “MAGA Land.”
Vice President JD Vance’s wife, who is the first Hindu second lady, responded with a hearty laugh when The Free Press queried what it was like to be an Indian American woman amidst a world “with all the blondes and Botox and facelifts, the low-cut blouses and nine-inch heels.”
“I’m laughing, because it would be really hard for me to be blonde…that color would look totally absurd,” Vance, 39, said, adding that she prefers to leave her hair natural.
The classy second lady added that she has been warmly welcomed by the party — and people “don’t seem to care” how she looks or dresses.
“For what it’s worth, my reception into this world — and I’m not from a particularly wealthy background, not from a very fashion-oriented background personally or professionally — has been really positive. People don’t seem to care all that much what I look like,” she said.
Vance, a graduate of Yale Law School, has become adored by many in the Republican party after her husband was chosen as President Trump’s running mate last year.
The decision prompted the mom of three to leave behind her life as a high-powered civil litigation attorney and enter the political spotlight, which she said “has been almost uniformly positive.”
“The day before JD was selected — I did not know he was going to be selected — I was working as a lawyer, and I had the wardrobe of a person with three children who likes to do things outdoors, who has a dog, who doesn’t like things to be too precious,” she told the outlet.
“And then, a switch flipped, and it’s not like it came with a whole new wardrobe and stylist and everything.”
The second lady’s parents immigrated to America from India in the 1970s and raised her in a Hindu household in San Diego.
Her mother, a biologist and provost at the University of California at San Diego, and her father, an engineer, emphasized the importance of education and perseverance — making hard work and studying top priorities in her upbringing.
Vance was accepted to Yale, and after finishing her undergraduate degree, was awarded the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, allowing her to pursue a Master of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She then attended Yale Law, where she met her future hubby during a class assignment.
The couple was married in 2014 in Kentucky, with Vance now serving as one of her husband’s closest confidants as he navigates his new role in the White House.
“I don’t know that he’s asking me for advice so much as, it can be a very lonely, lonely world not to share with someone,” she told the outlet, explaining that it can be difficult to see her husband scrutinized.
“It’s a very strange life that we lead, where there are lots of people who have just imagined all sorts of narratives about us and what we think and what we do and why we do it and how much planning goes into it and all these sorts of things.”
The pair was met with a chorus of booing as they took their seats for a concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on March 13. The harsh reception came shortly after President Trump booted several members of the Kennedy Center board and installed himself as chairman.
While her husband is focused on issues of national importance, she said her ultimate goal is to ensure their children live a normal life where they’re shielded from the often-hostile political landscape.
“To me, the highest priority right now is to be actually a normal person,” Vance said.
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