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Jenna Bush Hager Cries During On-Air Motherhood Admission
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The cohost of the fourth hour of Today shares son Kayin as well as twins Uche and Clara with her late husband Uche Ojeh, who passed away in May 2025 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.
“With all three of my children, I try to show them that they're ALL a team, and they have to take care of each other," Sheinelle wrote in a 2015 essay for Today. “At the same time, I'm learning that they each like to know they're special on their own."
From the heart of New York City, it’s Jenna Bush Hager getting candid about being a working mom.
The Today anchor—who shares kids Mila, 13, Poppy, 10, and Hal, 6, with husband Henry Hager—got emotional on air as she detailed balancing motherhood with her professional career.
“I have been working a lot because this has been shooting, and then I’ve had these big interviews and then all the book stuff,” Jenna told co-host Sheinelle Jones during the April 30 episode of Today with Jenna and Sheinelle, “and so this morning when I woke up, I thought, ‘OK, the next couple weeks, the next couple months, it’s like kid-focused.’”
“I’m like, how can I show up for Poppy in a way—now I’m crying,” she added before tearing up. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”
But Jenna—whose stacked schedule has included reporting on the daytime show, appearing in the Devil Wears Prada 2 and working as a producer on NBC’s Protection among other professional ventures—wasn’t in it alone.
After all, Sheinelle swiftly embraced the journalist into a hug as she regained her composure.
