Second lady Usha Vance is a Yale Law School graduate, a former clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a successful private practice attorney, and the wife of Vice President JD Vance. But to millennial mothers everywhere, she is one of us.

Watching Vance hold her 3-year-old daughter Mirabel decked out in not one, not two, but three Band-Aids during her husband’s swearing-in, or seeing her firmly remind her 7-year-old son Ewan to behave during the inauguration parade shows that Vance is just another mother trying to do her best with a smile.

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