Usha Vance is clarifying some rumors about her marriage. The Second Lady of the United States was recently spotted without her wedding band, prompting some speculation from viewers on the state of her marriage to Vice President JD Vance.
Last week, Usha Vance joined Melania Trump at Camp Lejune, a military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The Second Lady, who rarely speaks to the media, didn't wear a ring for the occasion.
A spokesperson for Usha provided some clarification. The spokesperson shared a statement to PEOPLE, sharing that Usha is “a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.”
Usha and JD Vance got married in 2014, with the couple welcoming three children in the following years: Ewan, 8, Vivek, 5, and Mirabel, 3.
What's going on between Usha and JD Vance
There's no reason to believe that there's anything wrong with Usha and JD Vance's marriage, but over the past few weeks, the media has latched on to some of Vance's comments, including a discussion on religion.
In late October, Vance was a speaker at a Turning Point USA event hosted at the University of Mississippi, answering some questions from students. One of them asked Vance about his wife's religion, given that Vance's Christianity is one of the most important parts of his platform and politics. Usha is a Hindu, while Vance is a Christian.
In his answer, Vance revealed that Usha sometimes accompanies him to church and that even though the two have separate faiths, they respect eachother, and agreed to raise their kids Christian.
"Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, I honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way," said Vance. "But if she doesn't, then God says, 'Everybody has free will,' and so that doesn't cause a problem for me. That's something you work out with your friends, with your family, with the person that you love."
Usha has spoken about her faith and the way it impacts her children in previous interviews. "At the time when I met JD, he wasn't Catholic, and he converted later and when he converted, we had a lot of conversations about that because it was actually after we had our first child, maybe it was after Vivek was born too," she said in an appearance on Meghan McCain's podcast, "Citizen McCain."
"When you convert to Catholicism it comes with several important obligations, like to raise your child in the faith and all that."
"We had to have a lot of real conversations about how do you do that, when I'm not Catholic, and I'm not intending to convert or anything like that," she concluded.