In a recent candid book, JD Vance acknowledged that he was astounded by the intensity of his feelings and that he became “obsessed” with his wife Usha when they first met at Yale.
Just months after claiming he lacked the “gene” to fall “head over heels,” the vice president confided in a buddy from his hometown that he had been taken by surprise by his classmate.
I guess I’m infatuated with this girl in my small group, dude. Vance remembered telling his pal over the phone late at night from New Haven, Connecticut, “It’s unhealthy.”
Only a few months prior, Vance had comforted Mike, the same friend, during a breakup by telling him he didn’t believe he could handle that kind of grief.
“JD? Do you recall telling me that you don’t have the gene that causes you to fall deeply in love with a girl?” That has always seemed like nonsense to me. “I know it is now,” Mike informed him.
The romantic disclosures coincide with the Vances battling rumours of marital discord, which were stoked by JD’s widely shared embrace with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika at a Turning Point USA event in October and Usha’s outings without her wedding band.
In a rare interview in December, Usha—who is expecting the couple’s fourth child—cold watered the rumours, calling them “kind of funny” and stating that she would rather “live in the real world.”
In his book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” which will be published on June 16, Vance describes how Usha enthralled him while attending Yale. He describes her as the most remarkable student at law school, but she “just wants to have a family and a decent job.”
On May 6, JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance stroll to the White House’s East Room to attend a Military Mother’s Day celebration in Washington, DC.
On Monday, JD Vance and his boys travel to the White House to attend a celebration for Indiana University’s 2026 College Football Playoff (CFP) National Champions.
“You have the biggest mismatch between ambition and ability of any person I’ve ever met,” he said to Usha. You have no interest in becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The book is a departure from his best-selling 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” which detailed his difficult rural Ohio upbringing and his mother’s struggle with drug addiction. The book was eventually made into a 2020 film starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.
Instead, Communion tells the story of his conversion to Catholicism following a period of spiritual struggle and a Protestant background.
“Falling in love with a girl who would eventually become a mother four times over was a crucial part of that journey,” Vance told USA Today.
After only a few months at Yale, he was assuring acquaintances that he would marry this girl. Or I’ll remain single for the rest of my life.
According to Vance, he was taught that it was crucial to “play hard to get,” but when he met Usha, the rules vanished.
“I told her I wanted to marry her and would do whatever it took to make that happen after we had only been dating for a few weeks,” he says.
After getting married in 2014, Vance, 41, and Usha, 40, have three children: Mirabel, 3, Vivek, 5, and Ewan, 8. The couple revealed in January that Usha was expecting their fourth child, a male, in July.
Vance, 41, and Usha, 40, were married in 2014 and have three children: Ewan, 8, Vivek, 5, and Mirabel, 3. Usha revealed in January that she was expecting their fourth child, a son, in July.
At Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, JD and Usha Vance first crossed paths.
Before joining the prestigious legal firm Munger, Tolles & Olson, Usha—the daughter of Indian immigrants who lived in San Diego—clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and then-appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh.
When her husband was chosen to be Donald Trump’s running mate in July 2024, she secretly left the company.
After an incredible political ascent from self-described “Never-Trumper” to MAGA evangelist, Vance—a former Marine and US Senator for Ohio—was sworn in as vice president.
The memoir is released at a time when Vance’s relationship with Trump is under renewed scrutiny due to the confrontation with Iran; the President has publicly acknowledged that his deputy has opposed military action.
While Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a strong supporter of Trump’s foreign policy program, has seen his odds rise from 4 percent to double digits, Vance’s prediction market odds for 2028 have fallen from 31 percent to only 19 percent.
