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Hoda Kotb Says She's "Blessed Beyond Measure" With Her Daughters
Hoda Kotb has large dreams for her small girls.
Namely, passing connected her emotion for New Orleans. In her screen communicative for Southern Living's April 2023 issue, the Today amusement anchor reflected connected her clip surviving and moving arsenic a newsman successful the Big Easy, sharing that she hopes 1 time daughters Haley Joy, 6, and Hope Catherine, 3, "know they person different spot to telephone home, and that's New Orleans."
"When they turn up, I privation them to recognize that erstwhile they get disconnected the level and they locomotion into this city, that they're going to get a lukewarm embrace," explained Hoda, who is present based successful New York City. "I privation truthful severely for this to beryllium a portion of their lives due to the fact that it's specified an important portion of mine."
Recalling her memories of strolling down the French Quarter, eating a beignet portion listening to jazz music, the 58-year-old continued, "I privation them to cognize that life, truthful they volition beryllium coming present their full lives and I deliberation it's going to extremity up being a spot they consciousness similar is home."
Having worked arsenic a newsman for local outlet WWL-TV backmost successful the '90s, Hoda besides hopes that her kids volition beryllium capable to acquisition the free-spiritedness of the city.
"Everything is airy successful New Orleans," she said. "'Normal' is being free, and dressing the mode you want, dancing successful the thoroughfare adjacent if you're the lone one. New Orleans celebrates the individual. It's afloat of characters, and I privation my kids to conscionable them."
Hoda's contented of Southern Living, which celebrates the 2023 South's Best Awards and is retired connected newsstands March 17, comes amid a health substance concerning her youngest daughter. During the March 6 broadcast of Today, the ma of 2 shared that she had been absent from her station connected the greeting amusement owed to Hope's hospitalization.
"My youngest, Hope, was successful the ICU for a fewer days and successful the infirmary for a small much than a week," she explained. "I'm truthful grateful she's home."
Hoda aboriginal elaborate the "really scary" experience, saying that she was "really, truly grateful" to person a beardown enactment strategy during the hard time.
"Anyone who has gone done an unwellness with a child, I thought I understood you but I didn't until you're sitting successful that position," she added. "For each azygous idiosyncratic who's going done immoderate stuff, I get it."
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