Jenna Bush Hager had a tough Monday.
On a Tuesday, April 29, during an episode of Today with Jenna & Friends, the mom of three, 43, spoke with guest co-host Tina Fey about a recent event that occurred at her house after she’d missed her son Hal’s play.
“You work hard, work is a passion. I only ask this because I’ve been kind of going through this right now. I’ve been traveling for work,” Bush Hager said. “And my kids, my daughter cried last night when I got home. She was like, ‘You missed Hal’s play!’ “
“And I already felt terrible about missing Hal’s play. Did your kids ever show any of that? I need some therapy, as you can tell,” she then asked.
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Fey, 54, responded that something similar had happened to her, and then shared the much-needed advice she received.
“When my daughter was young was when we were making 30 Rock and I was working really, really hard, a lot, and someone gave me the advice of, it’s not good for women to pretend that you don’t like your work,” the Four Seasons star explained.
“You don’t want to be like, ‘Oh, Mommy hates going to work, it’s so bad.’ If you like your job, you like your job,” Fey, who shares two daughters with husband Jeff Richmond, continued. “But yeah, I definitely cried a lot when my daughter was younger… you miss some things. But they know that you’re there for them as much as you absolutely can be.”
“And they’ve turned out okay,” Bush Hager said, before Fey responded, “They’ve turned out okay. So far, so good.”
Bush Hager shares daughters Poppy and Mila, as well as son Hal, with husband Henry Hager. Fey and Richmond are parents to Alice, 19, and Penelope, 13.
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On a March episode of Today with Jenna & Friends, Jenna was joined by her husband as a guest co-host. The couple joked about how their youngest gets a little upset when the two show affection.
“We are in this moment — and I wonder if any of y’all relate — where our youngest son is jealous of our romance,” Jenna began. “Do you want to talk about what happened?”
“Well, most recently, as an example, we were in the kitchen and he was eating and everybody was quite happy and we went over and I gave you a kiss,” recalled Henry. “Just a nice little kiss. I gave you a peck.”
“It wasn’t even a French kiss,” the Today star insisted.
“Hal just started bawling crying. His face, he was all smiles eating, and then it was just…” Henry said, trailing off as Jenna added, “devastation.”
“It was as if Hal and I are dating and you swiped in and stole him from me,” Jenna joked. “And Henry goes, ‘Hal, just to be clear, the reason you’re born is ‘cause your mom and I like each other.’”
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