A representative for Usha Vance said Saturday that she wore no wedding ring to an outing last week because she simply forgot it.
But a spokesperson for the second lady gave a less newsworthy explanation.
The rep told People on Saturday that Vance is “a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.”
Rumors about the second couple’s union swirled when the vice president recently hugged Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, in a way that some observers saw as overly intimate.
Vance also caught flak when he said he hoped his wife, who is Hindu, would one day convert to Catholicism.
“Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church?” he asked. “Yes, I honestly do wish that, because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way. But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me.” ”
The Vances met at Yale Law School, married in 2014 and have three children between the ages of 3 and 8.