No one ignores it today: Donald Trump often sees women as nothing more than pleasant “dummies” who silently cling to the arms of their husbands. During his victory speech given in Florida after his re-election on November 5, the husband of the statuesque Melania, known for her numerous sexist outings, did not fail to applaud Usha Vance’s physique on stage. “absolutely extraordinary and beautiful” wife of his vice president-elect, JD Vance.
Who, at 38, is preparing to become one of the youngest second ladies of the United States and the first Indian-American to occupy this role, has long stood out only for her intellectual merits, supposedly as a highly qualified lawyer. . progressive who ended up following her husband’s conservative path.
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, are working in the same work group in “The social decline of white America”.
At first glance they have little in common. He is an Iraq War veteran, the son of a poor and dysfunctional Scottish-Irish family in Ohio, raised by his grandparents. She is the daughter of South Indian immigrants who grew up with her microbiologist mother and engineer father in the suburbs of San Diego, California.
In a newspaper edited by Yale students and exhumed by the New York Times, Usha Chilukuri is ranked among the “top 50” of the most beautiful students in the university. A small portrait is dedicated to her, she is described in “leftist woman” whose preferences go towards men from the opposite political side. “In the past, most of her lovers were tall, handsome and conservative.” points out 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 colleagues 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, hard-working, tall and beautiful”, JD Vance wrote in peasant elegy (Globe, 2016) about him, to explain his love at first sight.
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They were married in Kentucky in 2014. Two separate ceremonies were held. JD Vance, a late Catholic convert (he was baptized in 2019), agreed to receive the blessing of a Brahmin, dressed in traditional Hindu dress.
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