A look inside JD Vance and wife Usha’s marriage amid divorce rumors

Before becoming vice president and second lady of the US, JD and Usha studied at Yale Law School, where they first met.

“We were friends first and foremost because — I mean, who wouldn’t want to be friends with JD? He was then, as now, the most interesting person I knew. A working-class man who had overcome childhood traumas that I could barely fathom,” Usha said of meeting and falling in love with JD at the Republican National Convention.

She added in her speech, “Although he loves meat and potatoes, he adapted to my vegetarian diet and learned to cook Indian food from my mother. Before I knew it, he had become an integral part of my family, a person I couldn’t imagine living without.”

JD shared a similar sentiment in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly elegy.

“She seemed like some kind of genetic anomaly, a combination of all the positive qualities a person should have: smart, hardworking, tall and beautiful,” he writes.

He also described Usha’s role in his success and happiness: “Even at my best, I am one delayed explosion – I can be neutralized, but only with skill and precision. It is not just that I have learned to control myself, but also that Usha has learned how to manage me.”