Overview
- In a USA Today interview conducted Dec. 8 and published Dec. 13, the second lady called the speculation a “family joke” and said she doesn’t track the rumor mill.
- Addressing photos where she lacked a wedding band, she said, “I wear it when I wear it, and I don’t when I don’t,” noting ordinary reasons like working out and showering.
- The chatter followed her ringless appearance at Camp Lejeune in November and Vice President JD Vance’s October onstage hug with Erika Kirk at a Turning Point USA event.
- Her spokesperson previously told People that, as a mother of three, she sometimes forgets her ring due to daily chores and childcare.
- Vance, a former litigator who clerked at the Supreme Court, reflected that there are parts of her pre-political life she misses as she and her husband, married since 2014, raise their three young children.