Kamala Harris Clapped Back at Haters Who Say She’s Not Ella Emhoff’s Real Mother

Kamala Harris is a proud step-mom, and she isn’t letting critics impact how she feels about her and husband Doug Emhoff’s kids, Cole and Ella Emhoff. During her recent viral interview on Alex Cooper’s podcast, “Call Her Daddy,” the vice president and Democratic presidential candidate opened up about not being perceived as a real mother in response to Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s comments claiming Harris doesn’t have any children: “My kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble,” Sanders previously said.

“I don’t think she understands there are a whole lot of women out here who one, are not aspiring to be humble. Two, a whole lot of women out here, who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life and children in their life, and I think it’s very important for women to lift each other up,” Harris told Cooper, before adding that she actually does have “two beautiful children” who call her “Momala.” Harris shares the kids with her husband and his ex-wife, Kerstin Emhoff.

“We have our family by blood, and then we have our family by love, and I have both. And I consider it to be a real blessing,” she continued. “We have a very modern family. My husband’s ex-wife is a friend of mine.”

“Family comes in many forms,” she added. “And I think increasingly, all of us understand that this is not the 1950s anymore.”

Harris noted that when she and Emhoff first started dating, she was “thoughtful and sensitive” about getting close to the kids too soon.

“I waited to meet the kids,” she recalled. “And they are my children, and I love those kids to death.”

Harris’s Instagram campaign page shared a photo carousel capturing the Vice President’s quotes. Ella dropped into the comments section to remind everyone that, biologically related or not, Harris is one of her parents.

“I’ll say it again,” she wrote. “I love my three parents!