Jenna Bush Hager and husband Henry Hager’s bond started with a White House connection — and their romance is still burning white hot more than a decade later.
The former first daughter has her father, President George W. Bush, to thank for her decades-long relationship with Hager, which began in 2004 while Hager was working on Bush’s reelection campaign.
Despite a few mishaps, Bush Hager was convinced Hager was The One and proposed to him after only three months together.
“He said no …” Bush Hager confessed during a February 2020 episode of Today With Hoda & Jenna. “I might’ve had a Christmas cocktail — and we were dancing, and I said, ‘This is it, I know it, let’s just get married, what are we waiting for?’ He smiled, and he was like, ‘I’m crazy about you, but you’re young.'”
While Hager turned down the drunken proposal, he got down on one knee in 2007. The couple got hitched the following year and have since welcomed three children: Mila, Poppy and Hal.
Scroll down to see Bush Hager’s love story with her husband from the beginning:
