Usha Vance, the spouse of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, became a national star during the couple's visit to India, her parents' country of origin, according to the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal.

Vice President JD Vance was less than two minutes into a speech in Jaipur, India this week, when he had a question for one of his most trusted advisers. He had just visited the Akshardham Temple, he said,

JD Vance joked of wife Usha during a speech, “She’s a bit of a celebrity, it turns out, in India. I think more so than her husband.”