{"id":772990,"date":"2026-07-20T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:03:10","slug":"usha-vance-gives-birth-to-fourth-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772990\/","title":{"rendered":"Usha Vance gives birth to fourth child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second lady Usha Vance gave birth Sunday to her fourth child, Vice President JD Vance announced on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are excited to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning,\u201d Vance said in a statement. \u201cUsha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usha Vance, 40, is the first woman since the 1870s <\/a>to give birth while her husband is vice president.<\/p>\n

She and her husband have three other young children, two boys and one girl, who are ages 4, 6 and 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While promoting his new book this year, <\/a>JD Vance previously said it was unlikely that he would take parental leave<\/a> once the baby arrived. The couple announced the pregnancy<\/a> in January and said at the time that she was due in late July.<\/p>\n

In March, the vice president, who could run for president in 2028<\/a>, said at a White House event in Michigan that he had to persuade his wife to have another child.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember when we decided to run for vice president, I said, \u2018Honey, I really want to have a fourth kid.\u2019 And she said, \u2018Well, you can become vice president or you can have a fourth baby,\u2019\u201d Vance said. \u201cBut, ladies and gentlemen, I am persuasive, because I got both.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with NBC News<\/a> later that month, Usha Vance confirmed that he did convince her to have a fourth child, though she said that she had \u201cnever closed the door on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She said that after having their daughter, she thought their family was complete. \u201cBut as time passed,\u201d she said, \u201cI realized that I was feeling more and more, kind of, excited about that possibility\u201d of having another one.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so if there was a chance, I should take it, and I knew that I\u2019d be happy if we only had three kids, and I knew that I\u2019d be happy if we had four. And so here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comes amid the news that the vice president and second lady are considering leasing a house in Middleburg, Virginia<\/a>, separate from the vice president\u2019s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. The Secret Service is planning to provide additional security for the rural property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second lady Usha Vance gave birth Sunday to her fourth child, Vice President JD Vance announced on X.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-772990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}