Usha Vance pokes fun at ‘political significance’ of maternity dress

Second lady Usha Vance poked fun at a New York Times article examining the public image of pregnant women in President Trump’s orbit, joking that she did not realize her maternity dress carried so much “political significance.”

“Now that we know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity dress from Old Navy, can’t wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks!” the second lady wrote Thursday in a post on social media.

She was responding to a story titled “The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image,” which discussed how the pregnancies of Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, helped create a public image........

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