Jenna Bush Hager became visibly emotional on-air this week while sharing her desire for more “kid-focused” time amid a prolific period in her professional life.
At the start of Thursday’s episode of “Today with Jenna & Sheinelle,” Bush Hager said she was determined to show up for her middle child, 10-year-old Poppy, after an especially busy month that saw her interviewing Queen Camilla and four former U.S. presidents, including her father, George W. Bush.
“I have been working a lot because this has been shooting, and then I’ve had these big interviews and then all the book stuff, and so this morning when I woke up, I thought, ‘OK, the next couple weeks, the next couple months, it’s like kid-focused,’” Bush Hager told her co-host, Sheinelle Jones.
“I’m like, ‘How can I show up for Poppy in a way…’” she continued, before tearing up. “Now I’m crying. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”
Watch Thursday’s episode of “Today with Jenna & Sheinelle” below. Bush Hager’s comments on her daughter, Poppy, begin around the 9:20 mark.
