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Jenna Bush Hager revealed that her late grandmother Barbara Bush physique shamed her as a teen. The tv host, now 41, confessed that the previous first woman informed her that she was “looking chubby” whereas sporting a yellow bikini on TODAY With Hoda & Jenna, saying that the dialog made her wish to “hide” her physique. She described Barbara, who died in 2018 at 92 years outdated, as having a “biting personality” — however insists she “adored her.”
.@billieeilish opens up about her relationship together with her physique in @voguemagazine’s first ever video cowl. pic.twitter.com/8IKPTqjJ8D
— TODAY with Hoda & Jenna (@HodaAndJenna) January 6, 2023
Years later, Jenna mentioned her grandmother apologized for the upsetting remark — and mentioned that she has heard comparable issues from her personal mom Pauline Pierce, who could be Jenna’s great-grandmother. Barbara defined her mom “said those types of things” and that she had been “talking to herself” as she made the remark. “Her mother always thought of her sister as the really beautiful one and would say it…’Martha’s the pretty one. You’re the funny one. You’re the smart one’,” she added. Jenna did say, nonetheless, that her mom Laura Bush by no means put strain on her to shed pounds.
The remark remained with Henna — who’s now the mother of youngsters Mila, 9, Poppy, 7, and Hal, 3 — as she didn’t “wear a bikini for years” she mentioned. That all modified, nonetheless, in 2022 when she sported a bikini with confidence. “After having three kids, three C-sections, [I did it],” she declared.
Jenna has beforehand been candid on the present about her struggles with weight reduction — revealing in October that she determined to make way of life adjustments. “Anybody who has either gained weight during the pandemic or had babies during the pandemic, it just takes time. My body isn’t 18 anymore,” she mentioned to Hoda on the time. “We know that yo-yo dieting doesn’t work. It doesn’t. I’ve tried to but I’ve always gained the weight,” she added.
Her secret? A brand new exercise routine she carried out earlier than work. “The difference is I wake up before the show and I work out…And I really work out. I work out with an awesome woman named Amanda. [TODAY contributor] Donna [Farizan] joins me sometimes,” she famous, calling her colleague “a great inspiration.”
“I will say I think I have figured out what works for me. And I think the hard thing is I think we expect things to happen overnight. This has actually been over six months,” Jenna went on.