Jenna Bush Hager is getting personal.
On an episode of “Making Space with Hoda,” a podcast on Audacy, Bush Hager discussed having children before her twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush.
The 39-year-old told her Today co-host that she and her twin sister did everything together because they were the same age. She also discussed growing up in the White House with Barbara.
“We had a really shared history because we were the same age,” Bush Hager noted. “So it’s interesting how adulthood happens and how I just met Henry and that she didn’t meet somebody, you know, she had a lot of boyfriends. And people always asked about it.”
Bush Hager is currently a mother to Mila, 8, Poppy, 6, and Hal,2. She shared that having children before her sister generated a “painful” circumstance when they were both together.
“I mean, it was kind of disheartening to travel with her and people would say like, ‘Why aren’t you married?’ I mean, painful is the right word,” she said. “One of the things that people assume too is, like, why hadn’t she had kids?”
Jenna said that their 92-year-old grandmother motivated her sister to make decisions to become a mother.
“Barbara actually had decided...before my grandmother died, she had a conversation with my grandmother where she had decided to have kids on her own, and she talked to my grandmother about it,” Jenna said. “My grandmother said, ‘I think that’s a really good idea.’ So Barbara froze her eggs and was planning, if she didn’t meet somebody, to go ahead and do it, and then hopefully meet somebody else.”
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On September 27, Barbara gave birth to her first child. The former President and First Lady revealed the birth of their new grandchild in a statement.
“With full hearts, Laura and I are delighted to announce the birth of our new granddaughter,” the Bushes wrote.
The baby girl, named Cora Georgia Coyne, was born in Maine and is the daughter of Barbara and her husband, Craig Coyne.
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