Usha Vance and Vice President JD Vance have been married for many years and have appeared in public as a happy couple. However, when the Second Lady joined First Lady Melania Trump on an outing last week, she wasn’t wearing her wedding ring, sparking concerns about a marital split. Now, her spokesperson has addressed the rumors.

JD Vance and Usha Vance married in 2014 after meeting each other at Yale Law School. They have three children, sons Ewan, 8, Vivek, 5, and daughter Miralbel. 3. Now, the couple are Vice President and Second Lady of the United States, but not even a year into Trump’s second presidency, rumors about their marriage are flooding.

Rumors about the possible instability of their marriage first surfaced some months ago, when JD Vance embraced Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, in a way that had many questioning whether there was trouble between JD and Usha.

The hug, which occurred during a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on October 29, quickly went viral. At the event, Erika gave a speech, saying, “No one will ever replace my husband. But I do see some similarities of my husband in JD—in Vice President JD Vance. I do. And that’s why I am so blessed to be able to introduce him tonight.”

JD Vance further added fuel to the fire when he claimed that he had the desire that Usha, who’s Hindu, would convert to Catholicism. And last week, things got more complicated from an outsider’s perspective.

Usha Vance’s spokesperson reveals why she didn’t wear wedding ring

As Second Lady, Usha Vance joined Melania Trump at Camp Lejeune, a military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on November 19, and cameras caught something surprising. Usha wasn’t wearing her wedding ring during the appearance or in the photos that were taken after the outing.

Social media erupted with rumors of trouble in Usha and JD’s marriage. It came to a point where a spokesperson for USha, who rarely interacts with the press, had to make a statement on why she wasn’t wearing the wedding ring.

“[Usha is] a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes,” the spokesperson said in a statement to People Magazine.

Usha Vance’s life—and her husband’s, too, for that matter—changed forever as JD Vance was sworn in as Vice President of the United States beside Donald Trump. Usha states she remains JD’s close confidant and advisor, though she doesn’t like to think she has much influence over him.

Usha Vance says JD Vance’s Vice President life is “lonely”

Perhaps most interesting of all, she admitted that her husband lives in a pretty lonely world.

“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,” Usha told The Free Press writer Peter Savodnik.

“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 continued. “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.”

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