Usha Vance shares receipt of $8 dress after NYT report on Maga pregnancies

US Second Lady Usha Vance on Wednesday shared the receipt for a dress she wore after The New York Times published an article examining the symbolism and aesthetics of pregnancies among high-profile women in President Donald Trump's Maga movement.

The receipt was for a dress that Usha wore during an on-camera interaction with her husband, Vice President JD Vance, and showed that it cost $8.75 after a discount.

But that particular dress was neither featured in The Times article nor the subject of the story.

Instead, the article examined the symbolism and aesthetics of pregnancies among Trump's high-profile female allies and how they fit into the Maga movement's vision of women's place in society. Over the years, the ultra-conservative movement has advocated gender-based roles for men and women, with men envisioned as providers and women as stay-at-home mothers and wives.

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Usha is the third high-profile Maga figure to be pregnant around the same time, following White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who gave birth in May, and Katie Miller, the wife of Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who gave birth last month.

Summing up the ultra-conservative vision of women's place in society, Miller last month posted on social media that "peak feminism is having babies" and that "the most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny" of bearing children.

In the Times article, Chief Fashion Critic Vanessa Friedman wrote: "If the bare-chested, muscled mixed martial arts fighters of the UFC match that President Trump hosted on Flag Day were the poster guys for Maga's image of masculinity, then the pregnant women of Trump world are one half of their feminine counterparts. Along with the sheath-clad, lip-filled, pageant-haired Mar-a-Lago set, they offer an image of idealised womanhood that gives literal shape to the pronatalist movement."