Forget something, Usha? Whispers about Vance marriage grow louder as Second Lady ditches her wedding band

Usha Vance was spotted without her wedding ring at an official engagement, weeks after her husband JD Vance publicly acknowledged the religious divide in their marriage.

The Second Lady was ringless during her visit to Camp Lejeune military base in Richlands, North Carolina, with First Lady Melania Trump on Wednesday.

Photos show Usha, 39, stepping off the plane with her left hand fully visible and her wedding ring nowhere to be seen.

Additional images from Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River confirm that the ring remained closed throughout the visit.

Meanwhile, the Vice President was photographed wearing his wedding ring during a speaking event in Washington on Thursday.

The footage comes after weeks of nasty trolls whispering about the state of the Vance marriage, which began in October when the Vice President hugged Erika Kirk tightly at a memorial for the husband of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Speculation about a possible rift between the Second Couple was fueled by the Vice President’s admission that he had begged his wife to convert from Hinduism: she is a Roman Catholic.

The visit was Usha and Melania’s first joint appearance and was designed to cheer up the troops ahead of Thanksgiving.

Usha’s wedding ring was missing while she was giving a speech to military personnel on November 19. Meanwhile, her husband JD was seen with his wedding ring at a speaking event in Washington the next day.

They also went to Lejeune High School and met with students before heading to a nearby elementary school for arts and crafts projects with other children.

Moreover, photos of Usha’s joint visit with her husband to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on November 10 show that she did not wear her headband at this event either.

When the photos started doing the rounds on X, commenters suggested that Usha was not-so-subtly expressing her feelings towards her 41-year-old husband.

While one user joked that Usha ‘Quietly left her husband’, another said ‘there were signs…’ and shared a photo of Vance hugging Kirk.

Others were more supportive of Usha, with Kori Talbot writing: ‘Yes, many people (not just women) don’t wear their wedding rings all the time.

‘But he needs to know that he will be photographed and commented/speculated about… so I definitely think it makes sense to make some sort of ‘statement’.’

Gina Milan wrote: ‘Many people leave their wedding rings at home when they travel. Many take them off at night and forget to put them back on because they are juggling real life with kids. And somehow these clowns are turning this into a ‘gotcha’? The reach is absolutely insane.

When contacted by the Daily Mail, the Second Lady’s spokesperson said Usha ‘is a mother of three young children who does a lot of washing up, takes a lot of baths and sometimes forgets her ring.’

Kirk and Vance’s embrace took place last month at a memorial event in Utah for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed while hosting a campus event weeks earlier.

The vice president and second lady were photographed together during their visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on November 10, where Usha was also seen without her ring.

Usha, who has been married to the Vice President since 2014, was last photographed with her wedding ring at the Marine Ball on November 8.

The Vice President was seen clumsily wrapping his hands around the waist of Kirk, a former reality TV contestant, and hugging him tightly as Kirk ran his hands through his hair.

Lip reader Nicola Hickling told Mirror US that Kirk was seen saying: ‘I can’t do this, I don’t want to do it’.

When he got on stage and hugged Vance, Vance told him, ‘I’m proud of you.’

In an interview late last month, the Vice President also revealed another point of contention between himself and his wife: differing beliefs.

According to her husband, the Second Woman was not raised in a Hindu and religious family.

Vance, on the other hand, is a devout Catholic who plans to raise his three children in a Christian home.

“Most Sundays now, Usha will come to church with me,” Vance told the MAGA audience at the Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi.

‘Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian. “I think it’s fair to say that he grew up in a Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction,” he said.

After an emotional speech in which she remembered her late husband, Erika greeted the Vice President with a hug on stage.

While the vice president converted to Catholicism in 2019, Usha, the mother of his three children, also grew up in a non-religious Hindu family.

The Vice President later revealed that he told Usha that he wanted her to ‘believe in the Christian Bible’; Vance publicly stated for the first time that he wanted Usha to convert to Christianity.

“As I told him, I said it publicly, and now I’m going to say it in front of 10,000 of my closest friends,” Vance continued. ‘Do I hope that in the end he will be moved the same way I was moved by the church?

‘Yes, obviously I wish that because I believe in the Christian Bible and I hope eventually my wife will come to see it the same way.’

He added: ‘But if it isn’t, then God says everyone has free will and that’s fine with me.’