Usha Vance is PREGNANT: Second Lady reveals gender of fourth baby

Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha have announced she is pregnant with a baby boy. 

Usha, 40, is the first vice president's wife to fall pregnant since Schuyler Colfax's wife Ellen, who gave birth in April 1870 during Ulysses S. Grant's presidency. 

'We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July,' the Second Lady's office posted on X on Tuesday.

Vance, 41, and Usha added that they are 'grateful to the military doctors who take excellent care of our family.'

The Vances, who met at Yale Law School, married in 2014 and share two sons, Ewan, 8, and Vivek, 5, and a daughter, four-year-old Mirabel. 

The announcement comes amid vicious rumors about the couple's marriage after Usha was spotted without her wedding ring on several public outings.

A spokesman for Usha explained to the Daily Mail last month that she is 'a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.'

The vice president's wife rarely grants interviews and typically avoids the media spotlight, but she hinted that a fourth baby might be on the way in a June interview. 

She told Meghan McCain: 'I just liked having the two kids so much that I think I ended up being the driver for three, which really surprised both of us.

'And now we're at three and I'm feeling pretty good about this and sometimes he thinks he might like to have a fourth, but we'll see where that leads.'

Vance and Usha met in 2013 when they attended the same classes at Yale. The future VP was so smitten that he told her that he loved her after their first date.

In his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance referred to Usha as his 'Yale spirit guide,' as he had come from a working-class background and she is the daughter of Indian immigrant academics, able to help him navigate the elite Ivy League culture. 

Vance has described his feelings during their courtship as 'overwhelming.' The couple's friends and even their professor noted that he was visibly 'lovesick.'

Vance and Usha had two wedding ceremonies in the Christian and Hindu traditions.

On June 14, 2014, they were married in a rustic, outdoor ceremony in Kentucky where the Vance family comes from.

Shortly afterwards they held a traditional Hindu ceremony to honor Usha's heritage where the pair wore bright, Indian garb. 

The pregnancy news comes months after Vance sparked controversy when he told a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi in October that he hoped his wife would convert to Christianity. 

The vice president, who converted to Catholicism five years into his marriage, answered a student's question: 'Do I hope that eventually she is somehow moved by what I was moved by in church? Yeah, honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.' 

He added: 'But if she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn't cause a problem for me.' 

Vance's comments sparked a backlash, including from the Hindu American Foundation, which cited a history of Christians attempting to convert Hindus.

At the same event, Vance hugged the late Charlie Kirk's wife Erika, just weeks after the assassination of the conservative activist. She placed her hand on the back of his head and he held her waist.

The intimate clinch led to another wave of gossip about his marriage to Usha, with social media users scrutinizing their body language.