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Katie Miller opened up about her family’s vaccination status on the latest episode of her podcast, revealing that her youngest son with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is not vaccinated and claiming he could put “dirt in his mouth” and “never” get sick.
“I think more and more young mothers, as they start asking questions, are seeing what you and I see, which is that healthy children do much better if they don’t get vaccinated,” Miller told guest Jenny McCarthy, a former model, actress and strong anti-vaccine activist.
Miller, a former deputy press secretary to President Donald Trump and an advocate of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., went on to disclose some personal information.
“I haven’t talked about this, but my oldest son is fully vaccinated,” Miller said. “My youngest child is not vaccinated at all. My oldest child had a soy protein allergy, right? And we had difficulty breastfeeding. My third child was exclusively breastfed until he was one year old.”
She continued: “He is my healthiest son and he never ever gets sick. He has never taken antibiotics. It’s like every day I put dirt in his mouth and he won’t get sick.”
According to the World Health Organization, vaccines are credited with saving 154 million lives over the past 50 years, of which 101 million were babies. And several large-scale studies investigating a supposed link between childhood vaccines and allergies have debunked correlations like Miller’s.
The MAGA acolyte received no opposition from her like-minded guest, who previously linked the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine to her son’s autism and published the 2007 book, “Louder Than Words: One Mother’s Journey to Cure Autism.” (The supposed link between vaccines and autism has been debunked time and time again by experts and studies around the world.)
“Right,” McCarthy told Miller. “It’s really true. ‘An Inconvenient Study’ is a documentary you should see, and they did that study, but they didn’t publish it, showing the chronic disease of the percentage, you would be stunned.”
The 2020 study in question, “Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short- and Long-Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children: A Birth Cohort Study,” was not published until after a 2025 US Senate hearing on alleged “corruption” of the healthcare system.
Anti-vaccine activists falsely believe it was intentionally “buried.” The study, which looked at more than 18,000 children born at Henry Ford Hospital between 2000 and 2016, was deemed totally “flawed” and incomplete.
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“The data that has been used is not complete data,” Dr. Adnan Munkarah told Michigan Public Radio in November. “There is a significant discrepancy between the groups in that study. The analysis that was done was not the correct analysis.”
McCarthy has also advocated for chelation therapy, a medical procedure that removes heavy metals from the body, to help her son “recover” from his autism. There is currently no cure for this lifelong neurodevelopmental condition, according to the Mayo Clinic.
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved chelation therapy to treat heavy metal poisoning, the agency has also issued warnings about unapproved uses, specifically citing autism spectrum disorder as an example.
McCarthy has denied that his son was simply misdiagnosed and told Miller that a doctor recently described him as “the healthiest 23-year-old” he had ever seen.
The actress is an advocate of the anti-vaccine movement that has contributed to the recent resurgence of measles, the worst in 30 years in the United States.
And the Trump administration announced Monday that it will reduce the number of vaccines in the childhood immunization schedule, prompting a social media post by Trump that shared what doctors call “fictitious” and “intentionally misleading” information.
Katie Miller and Stephen Miller are expecting their fourth child together. They announced it with a not-so-subtle photo of them posing at the Mar-a-Lago New Year’s party, with Katie Miller cradling her baby bump on the red carpet.