Jenna Bush Hager has revealed her four-year-old son Hal's hilarious reaction when he saw her on TV for the first time. He said he cried and asked her to turn off the television.
The “Today” star, 42, explained Wednesday that her youngest child didn't know what she did for a living and was stunned when she let him watch the opening of “Today With Hoda & Jenna.”
“Hal Hager didn’t know what my job was.” He didn’t know where I was [go] “To be with you every day,” she told her co-host Hoda Kotb. “So I showed him the opening of our show and he started crying.”
Kotb, 59, burst into laughter as Bush told Hager how Hal burst into tears and begged her to turn off the show.
Jenna Bush Hager, 42, spoke about her four-year-old son Hal's reaction when he saw her for the first time on the Today show on Wednesday
The host recalled how her youngest child burst into tears and begged her to turn off the show after she showed him the opening of Today With Hoda & Jenna
“I don’t like this!” Turn it off! I do not like it!' She said, mimicking her son's whining.
“At first he was kind of excited about it. He said, “Mommy!” [He was] “A little shocked,” she explained, but then he started to get upset.
“I don't know if the man felt deceived or if he just didn't like it [opening song] “Get up or he didn’t like my suit or he didn’t like that I was with you,” she told Kotb.
“I'm not sure, but he asked me to turn it off.” “Turn that off! I don't like that!” And like tears in his eyes and I was like, “What? What is that?” “Turn it off!”'
Kotb, mother of daughters Haley, seven, and Hope, four, couldn't stop laughing at Hal's emotional reaction to seeing his mother on TV.
“This is hilarious and sad, by the way,” she said.
“And completely appropriate,” her co-star added.
Bush Hager and her husband Henry Hager are also parents to daughters Mila, ten, and Poppy, eight, and she often talks about her three children on the show.
Bush Hager's co-host Hoda Kotb burst into laughter as she recounted how Hal screamed, “I don't like this!” Turn it off! I do not like it!'
Bush Hager said she wasn't sure if her son felt “deceived” or just “didn't like my suit.”
The former first daughter recently celebrated Hal getting a “big boy bed” after she was “shamed” over him sleeping in a cot.
A few months ago, the mother of three caused an uproar on the show when she admitted that her youngest child was still in the crib and wanted to stay in it until he started kindergarten.
Bush Hager said she tried to push Hal into his bed after she faced backlash for sleeping in a crib.
“You all shamed me, and basically the whole community shamed me for him being in a crib.” “You all shamed me a little bit,” she remembers.
Bush Hager and her husband Henry Hager are also parents to daughters Mila, ten, and Poppy, eight, and she often talks about her three children on the show
The mother-of-three recently celebrated her only son's graduation in a “big boy bed” after being “shamed” over him sleeping in a cot
“And I said, 'Okay, Hal, I think it's time, some friends said it's time to move!' And he wasn't ready, he was scared.”
Bush Hager said she was “quarantined” in her room with COVID-19 when Hal decided it was time to say goodbye to his crib.
She told how her husband ran into their son's room after hearing him scream “Daddy!”
“He went in and [Hal] said, “I'm ready.” And Henry said, “You're ready for what?” He said, “I need to move into my big boy bed.”
She explained that her son's bed sat in his room for “about two years” before he was ready to sleep in it.
“It all happened without his mother's help!” And I wonder if I'm being too arrogant when it's all about him,” she said.