Laura Bush learned the hard way that she can’t always trust everything she reads on Wikipedia.
During the Wednesday, July 23 episode of Today with Jenna & Friends, Jenna Bush Hager revealed that her mom, the former first lady and wife of George W. Bush, used to treat the website as an accurate source of information. As a result, she once believed that her daughter was pregnant when she was not.
Speaking with her guest co-host, Sunday Today‘s Willie Geist, the pair reflected on seeing people Googling them and heading to their Wikipedia page while out in public. Since the website can be edited, no entry on it is guaranteed to be accurate.
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Jenna Bush Hager and her family
Bush Hager, 43, said that her mom would read her page and fall for false updates announcing that she was with child.
“Those Wikipedia pages, man. Back in the early aughts, those Wikipedia pages, or maybe 2012, 2010, anybody could change it. So my mom would be like, ‘It looks like you’re pregnant!’ ” Bush Hager recalled of her 78-year-old mom. “I’d be like, ‘No, Mom, somebody just said that on Wikipedia. I’m not pregnant.’ “
Geist joked about the revelation, saying, “I love that your mom’s getting your pregnancy news from Wikipedia. Googling her daughter.”
Bush Hager has welcomed three children — daughters Mila, 12, and Poppy, 9, and son Hal, 5 — with husband Henry Hager, whom she married in 2008.
Laura and George are active grandparents. However, in March 2025, Bush Hager admitted to PEOPLE that her three kids sometimes felt uncomfortable with all of the attention and added security that comes with a visit from grandma and grandpa.
That’s especially the case for Mila, who is nearly a teen.
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Jenna Bush Hager and Laura Bush
“My mom came to visit a couple of weeks ago, and we were driving around, we went to dinner, and Mila looked at me and she’s like, ‘Are you humiliated?’ ” Bush Hager recalled. “I’m like, ‘What? Why would I be humiliated?’ And it’s because of the Secret Service entourage!”
Bush Hager told her sister Barbara Bush that Mila was not fond of the attention, adding that it was a trait shared between aunt and niece.
She continued, saying, “She’s also of that age. She’s in middle school, when you start to internalize what it feels like to be in your position. So she was like, ‘This is embarrassing.’ And I was like, ‘No, Mila, I’m not embarrassed now!’ But then I felt bad that I said that because [Barbara and I] would have totally been embarrassed in seventh grade,” she admits.
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Jenna Bush Hager
The TV host provides updates about her family while on air sometimes, but she revealed that her husband isn’t always thrilled by that decision.
Explaining that Hager always kept security at the front of his thoughts, she said that the exposure on her show sometimes made him nervous.
“He just believes we should have privacy as a family. So if I say something — maybe on this show — that gets pickup, he gets grumpy about it,” she said.
She said that she learned from his response, adding, “It helps me realize that I should be better for Mila, for Poppy and Hal.”
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