Dressed all in pink and with a big smile on her face, Usha Vance dazzled the world during Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony. Very discreet during the presidential campaign, the wife of the vice-president, JD Vance, shone with her elegance, her gentleness and her infectious happiness. Going from a long dress topped with a pink Oscar de la Renta cashmere coat and her wrap scarf to a shimmering blue strapless Reem Acra dress (very “Elsa” in “Frozen”), the new “Second Lady” from the United States showed that she had style, but not only that.
The daughter of Indian immigrant workers, Usha Vance, née Chilukuri, grew up in the working-class suburbs of San Diego, California. His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother a molecular biologist. The young woman studied modern history at Yale University, then at Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, on a scholarship. She was described to the BBC by her former teachers and classmates as an “excellent student”, “always ready to help others”.
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In 2010, Usha returned to Yale to study law and was, before her husband’s inauguration, a corporate lawyer for “high-profile” clients (Airbnb, Meta, Google and Disney) at a firm described by American Lawyer as “radically progressive” and “a leading contender in the cool and woke category” because of its diversity initiatives, generous parental leave and telecommuting.
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Never political discussion
Usha met the man who would become her husband, JD Vance, in a discussion group on “social decline in white America” at Yale in 2010. It was love at first sight between them. The vice-president also claims in his book Hillbilly Elegy (2016) to have declared his love for her from the first meeting. “She seemed to be some kind of genetic anomaly, a combination of all the positive qualities a human being should have: bright, hardworking, tall and beautiful,” he wrote. She admits to having fallen for his background (JD Vance comes from the working class) and describes him as “a tough Marine who served in Iraq, but whose definition of a good time is playing with puppies and watching the movie “Babe”. » She has since been “his spiritual guide”.
-However, at the time of her husband’s inauguration by the Republican Party, the “Los Angeles Times” pointed out their political differences. The Second Lady had her card in the Democratic Party for a long time (until 2014) and is strongly criticized by the populist branch of the Republicans because of her numerous university degrees. “If Usha Vance has a role to play in today’s Republican Party, it is to present a softened version of Republicanism to Americans in key states who might be turned off by divisions, authoritarianism and felony convictions of Trump,” our colleagues wrote.
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The only times she spoke publicly was to tell her love story with her husband, with whom she had three children, Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel, or to praise her qualities as a man. , husband and father. A posture that she would also maintain in private, refusing to talk politics. “I remember that she was always at the forefront of fashion, but she didn’t show her cards when it came to her political opinions,” a former colleague told the “Los Angeles Times”. It remains to be seen what role Usha Vance will play during the next four years in the White House.
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