The ‘Today with Hoda & Jenna’ co-host is mom to daughters Mila and Poppy, as well as son Hal
Jenna Bush Hager hasn’t been getting too much privacy from her son as she gets ready for the day.
On a Monday, July 1 episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the mom of three shared that her son Henry “Hal” Harold, 4, watches her get ready in the morning and has an interesting name for one of her body parts — which Bush Hager isn’t so sure she likes.
“Recently while I’m getting dressed — if I do makeup, hair, outfit — which is what I like, Hal likes to come in there and say, ‘Look at your nickels. I like your nickels,’” Bush Hager shares. “Now he’s talking about something else… it’s nipples. But he said, ‘Look at your big nickels.’ And then I feel a little humiliated in my own home.”
“Do you care about walking around naked with your kids around?” co-host Hoda Kotb asks.
“No I don’t,” Bush Hager responds. “But not in a gross way.”
“I’m not saying it’s gross, why are you getting offended?” Kotb asks her longtime friend.
“I’m just saying. But also, I’m not walking around. I’m in the privacy of my own bathroom,” Bush Hager clarifies, with Kotb noting that she’s getting from “Point A to Point B.”
“And I don’t have much time because guess what I have to go do down there? Prepare his little food,” Bush Hager says.
“He walks in and he makes fun of my ‘nickels,’ pointing and laughing in such and talking about their size,” Bush Hager says. “And then I have to get on a robe, which makes me hotter. But he’s started to shame me into outfit, hair, makeup.”
In addition to son Hal, Bush Hager is mom to daughters Mila 11, and Poppy Louise, 8, who she shares with husband Henry Hager.
On Mother’s Day this year, Bush Hager posted a sweet photo on her Instagram Stories, sharing the adorable card that her three kids made for her. The sweet note, written on poster paper, read, “Love U Mom” and “Thanks 4 all u do!!!” and included several of Mila’s hilarious nicknames for her mom, including “Kylie Jenner” and “Mama J.”
The card was signed “Hal/Baby Cub,” “Poppy/Boticheli,” and “Mila,” whose nickname was cut off.