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Hoda Kotb Says She's "Blessed Beyond Measure" With Her Daughters
Hoda Kotb is feeling stronger than ever.
The Today co-anchor is connected a travel of self-discovery done her Making Space podcast, 1 which she talks to radical who animate her with a travel of self-discovery and resilience with Maria Shriver, Rosie, Perez, Steve, Harvey and Shania Twain to stock their stories of strength.
For Hoda, though, her main sources spot are her daughters Haley Joy, 6, and Hope Catherine, 3. arsenic "The shining stars of my life," she described her girls successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News' Francesca Amiker. "I americium blessed beyond measurement for me."
However, Hoda admitted to erstwhile feeling unworthy of motherhood earlier she adopted Haley successful February 2017, adding Hope to their household 2 years later.
"Sometimes I wonderment like, 'How did this happened? How did I get this?'" she explained. "I utilized to consciousness astir undeserving of it. But I don't anymore. Something happened wrong maine wherever I was like, 'You cognize what, I'm worthy of these children, I'm worthy of myself. I'm capable conscionable arsenic I am. I volition nurture and emotion these small girls, arsenic agelong arsenic God lets maine person them for arsenic agelong arsenic I'll beryllium here.'"
And Hoda shared that she expresses gratitude for her beingness each greeting by penning successful her journal—a signifier she's done since 2016—because she gets "strength knowing that each time I get different try."
"Let maine find the joy, the emotion and the lessons, fto maine spot those things and not miss them," the seasoned writer explained of her committedness to her greeting pages routine. "So I consciousness similar each time I get that. So I'm grateful for today. And tomorrow, I'm going to beryllium grateful for tomorrow. I'm not looking down the road, I'm conscionable going to beryllium like, I get to bash this. That's capable for me."
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While Hoda stressed that she feels precise "blessed" successful her life, her Today co-host Jenna Bush Hager has been on a mission find her a partner pursuing her breakup with her fiancé Joel Schiffman in January 2022.
Unsatisfied with her matchmaking skills frankincense far, Jenna recruited their caller guest Reese Witherspoon to assistance her successful uncovering a caller romanticist involvement for Hoda.
To assistance them out, Hoda shared the characteristics she is looking for, saying, "My imagination spouse would beryllium authentic and would beryllium a seeker."
While she added that she "couldn't springiness a rip anymore" astir the carnal aspects, she admitted. "I mean, travel on, you person to beryllium a jock! Confidence trumps hairsbreadth each time."
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