Good friends have difficult conversations, and Jenna Bush Hager recalled one she shared with Hoda Kotb on the Friday, February 6, episode of Today With Jenna & Sheinelle.
“When I started this show, actually, I was hired, and then, like, right away, I found out I was pregnant with Hal,” Bush Hager told her cohost, Sheinelle Jones. “For a minute, I felt like, ‘Oh, gosh, can I do both?’ Whatever. But what I really felt was, I knew that Hoda was in the process of adopting a second babe. And I knew, because she’s my friend, how desperately she wanted a sister.”
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