Usha Vance, wife of US Vice President JD Vance, has announced that she is expecting her fourth child.
Sharing the news in a post on X, the second lady said the couple is preparing to welcome a baby boy in late July. A statement posted on her social media account on Tuesday confirmed that “Usha and the baby are doing well.”
Born Usha Chilukuri, she grew up in working-class suburbs of San Diego, California. Her father is a mechanical engineer and her mother a molecular biologist, both of whom immigrated to the United States from Andhra Pradesh, India.
Usha Vance met JD Vance in 2010 while studying at Yale Law School, where the two became acquainted through a discussion group focused on “social decline in white America.”
Before assuming the role of second lady, she built a distinguished legal career. She worked as a corporate litigator at the San Francisco-based firm Munger, Tolles & Olson and also clerked for prominent conservative judges, including US Chief Justice John Roberts and then–appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh, prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court by former president Donald Trump.
With this announcement, Usha Vance becomes the first second lady to be expecting a child while in office. Historically, however, there have been first ladies who gave birth during their husbands’ presidencies.
Frances Cleveland, the wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to her daughter, Esther, in the White House in 1893, while her second child, Marion, was born later outside the executive residence.
JD Vance has been among the most outspoken figures in the Trump administration advocating for higher birth rates in the US. “Let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America,” he said in 2025.
The vice-president and Usha Vance, 40, are already parents to three young children—Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel.
