If there’s anyone besides Donald Trump and Kamala Harris who has the world’s attention, it’s JD Vance. Vance was once a critical voice when it came to Trump, but then emerged as his candidate for the 2024 US election. He was chosen by the current President of the United States of America because of his ability to convey and promote his message with energy.
Vance, the 40-year-old vice president-elect, is expected to become the third-youngest vice president in history when he takes office. The youngest before him was a Democrat named John Breckinridge, who was 36 years old when he was inaugurated in 1857.
While Vance will add this feat to his name, the 40-year-old vice president-elect has always placed a high value on family and the values ​​one inherits from a close-knit family. Look at his family with his wife Usha Chilukurithree children and his grandmother.

Grow up: Vance wrote in his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” that he was raised in a low-income family by his single mother and grandmother, and that his family had a difficult life in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother’s parents moved from Kentucky were drawn. Vance revealed in his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” that he loved spending time with his maternal grandmother, Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance. “Mamaw” played a central role in Vance’s life until her death in 2005. As a boy, he grew up in the small industrial community of Middletown, Ohio, and was raised by Vance’s grandmother while his mother struggled with addiction. In Vance’s words, “Mamaw was in many ways a woman of contradictions,” Vance told convention delegates as he accepted his party’s nomination for vice president. “She loved the Lord, ladies and gentlemen. She was a woman with a very deep Christian faith. But she also loved the F-word. I’m not kidding. She could make a sailor blush.” Vance once stated that no one in his life had a greater influence on him than his grandmother. He added: “She really got me. She understood when I needed someone to ride me. She knew when I needed love and comfort. She knew when to just show compassion. She was really smart.”
In addition to his grandmother, Vance’s mother, Beverly “Bev” Aikins, has been an integral part of the Ohio senator’s life since he entered politics. Vance mentioned her issues again during the vice presidential debate in October. Vance said: “I grew up in a working class family. My mother needed food assistance at times in her life. My grandmother needed welfare to raise me. And she raised me in part because my own mother struggled with addiction for much of my early life.” According to the New York Times, Bev Aikins has been sober and free of alcohol and heroin for 10 years.

Life after school: Vance served for four years, including as press secretary in Iraq, where, among other things, he documented events on the front lines. He later attended Ohio State University, Yale Law School and worked as a venture capitalist in California.
Crossing paths with Usha Chilukuri: In 2013, Vance met Usha Chilukuri when both were students at Yale Law School. In 2014, Vance and Usha married in Kentucky in an interfaith wedding ceremony as she is Hindu and he is Christian. Their wedding included a Bible reading by Vance’s best friend, and the bride and groom were blessed by a Hindu pandit. Usha clerked for a year for Brett Kavanaugh, then a judge on the Washington Court of Appeals, and then clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts for a year.

Usha Chilukuri is expected to become the first person of Indian origin to hold the position of Second Lady of the USA. She will also become the first non-white Second Lady. The American lawyer’s roots go back to Andhra Pradesh. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Usha grew up in a suburb of San Diego. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University, she also holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
Vance described Usha, 38, as the “powerful female voice” on his left shoulder. Usha explained that her husband longed for a close-knit family. In his thank you letter after securing the position, Vance thanked his wife for all her support and wrote, “To my beautiful wife who made this possible.”
Children: Usha and Vance, who married in 2014, have two young sons Ewan and Vivek and a daughter Mirabel. Vance and Usha welcomed their first child, son Ewan, 7, in June 2017. Few details were revealed about Ewan as the couple largely kept their children out of the spotlight. Vance and Usha’s second child, son Vivek (4), was born in February 2020. Vance celebrated her son’s fourth birthday in the Senate in February 2024. In December 2021, Vance and Usha welcomed their third child, daughter Mirabel (2). He shared the news on Instagram and posted a photo from the hospital holding the newest family member.

The father of three has occasionally shared glimpses of his children on social media. In August 2022, he uploaded an Instagram photo of his family of five at the Ohio State Fair. Vance posted this photo on Instagram and wrote: “Eleven years ago I brought my new girlfriend to the Ohio State Fair. We returned today with three kids in tow and I got to judge the rib competition (the toddler helped). What a great birthday!”