More than three months after Jenna, 37, revealed that she and her husband Henry Hager areexpecting their third childtogether, theTodayshow co-host announced that she would be going on maternity leave.
“Today is my last day!” she said on-air Friday. “I want to thank all of you guys for the last four months. I can’t believe it’s been four months, but to share this joy with all of you, with youWillie [Geist], with everybody that’s filled in … all of you that have cheered us on as a show and cheered me on personally, it means the world. I feel so grateful to work in a place with people that lift me up every day.”
The announcement came the same day that Jenna’s 10 a.m.Todayco-hostHoda Kotbmade abrief visit to the showduring her own maternity leave, dropping in via satellite to open up about her upcoming book and being a mom to her two daughters:Haley Joy, 2, andHope Catherine, 3 months.
“I just feel overcome with gratitude that we get to expand our family. I’m obviously a little hormonal,” she added with a laugh as she teared up. “But it’s a beautiful time in my life, it’s a beautiful time in Hoda’s life.”
Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb.
But that wasn’t all — Kotb even surprised her co-host with a sweet video message.
“JBH, I hope you have the best maternity leave,” she said. “You are going to have so much fun playing with your babies and enjoying your time. I hope you treasure every single second of it. You know I’ve been treasuring every single second of it. I can’t wait to come back to work and hang with you on the set, but for this moment, you spend time with your children, you live in this moment.”
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“Yes, I’m pregnant!” she said on the NBC morning show. “I’m very pregnant. I don’t know how you missed this! I’ve needed seven or eight sports bras.”
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source: people.com
