No one is unaware of it today: Donald Trump often sees women as nothing more than pleasant “fools” silently holding on to their husbands’ arms. During his victory speech delivered in Florida following his re-election on November 5, the husband of the statuesque Melania, known for his numerous sexist outings, did not fail to make Usha Vance's physique applaud on stage , “absolutely remarkable and beautiful” wife of his vice president-elect, JD Vance.
The one who is preparing, at 38 years old, to become one of the youngest Second Lady of the United States and the first Indian-American to occupy this role has nevertheless long shone through her intellectual merits alone, as a highly qualified lawyer. reputedly progressive who ended up following her husband's conservative trajectory.
The first meeting between Usha Chilukuri, her birth name, and JD Vance dates back to the fall of 2010, at the prestigious Yale Law School (Connecticut). The students, only two years apart, find themselves working in the same working group on “the social decline of white America”.
They have little in common at first glance. He is an Iraq War veteran, child of a poor and dysfunctional family of Irish-Scottish origin in Ohio, raised by his grandparents. She is the daughter of immigrants from South India who grew up with her microbiologist mother and engineer father in the suburbs of San Diego, California.
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In a newspaper edited by Yale students and exhumed by the New York Times, Usha Chilukuri is ranked in the “top 50” of the most beautiful students of the university. A small portrait is dedicated to her, she is described in “woman of the left”, whose preferences go to men from the opposite political side. “In the past, most of his lovers were tall, handsome and conservative,” notes the article, which praises his smile “as bright as the San Diego sun”. Vance and Chilukuri soon formed an inseparable couple, to the point that their comrades nicknamed them “Judusha”, a contraction of “JD” and “Usha”. Usha Vance is “the mixture of all the qualities that a human being can have: brilliant, hardworking, tall and beautiful”, wrote JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy (Globe, 2016) about him, to explain his love at first sight.
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They got married in Kentucky in 2014. Two separate ceremonies were organized. J. D. Vance, a late Catholic convert – he was baptized in 2019 – agreed to receive the blessing of a Brahmin, dressed in traditional Hindu costume.
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