Jenna Bush Hager and Laura Bush.Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
Jenna Bush Hageris grateful to her mom, former First LadyLaura Bush, for never talking about her weight when she and her twin sister Barbara were growing up — and now she’s trying to do the same for her young daughters.
Hager, 40, mentioned her appreciation for her momon Thursday’sToday with Hoda & Jennaafter talking about a recent outing to the grocery store where her daughters,Mila, 8, andPoppy, 6, spotted Hager on a magazine cover with a headline about her weight.
Mila “yells, ‘What are lbs.?’ And I go, ‘Oh Mila, nothing,’ " Hager told co-hostHoda Kotb, which led Kotb to praise Hager for not teaching her daughter what it meant.
“You know what I love? She didn’t know what ‘lbs.’ are,” Kotb said. “You don’t bring it up.”
And Hager said that she “never” plans to talk to her daughters about her weight or theirs.
“She never said things like, ‘Gosh, my hair looks terrible. Or, ‘I look terrible.’ Or ‘This dress looks bad on me,'” Hager said. “And somebody [once] said, ‘Well I can’t believe she never had that talk to herself.’ And I said, ‘No, I’m sure she said it to herself, but she never said it out loud in front of her girls.’ "
That positive body image that Bush emphasized when Hager was growing up has continued into adulthood, and theTodayco-host said that her mom has reminded her to give her body “grace” after major changes like pregnancy.
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Hager said that Bush told her that a few months ago, as she was kicking up her workouts after welcoming son Hal in August 2019.
“She said, ‘Yeah, of course you look like that now, Hal’s two-and-a-half. It’s right about time. Give yourself that grace,'“Hager said onTodayin January. “I had three babies, so [my body is] going to look this way. And would I choose perfect abs or them?”
source: people.com
