Hoda Kotb Felt Mom Guilt Before Making the Decision to Leave Today

Hoda Kotb admitted that a big a part of the rationale why she chose to leave Today was due to the mother guilt she felt. The TV persona is a mother to daughters Haley and Hope, who’re the middle of her universe.

“There’s the guilt you carry as a result of you may’t be 100% at work and 100% at house,” Hoda, 60, instructed People on Wednesday, October 9. “One thing has to provide if you would like excellence. In the event you’re going to be glorious at work, one thing has to provide at house. And if you wish to be glorious at house, I imply glorious, and do all of the issues, one thing has to provide at work. It will probably’t be equal.”

Hoda instructed As we speak viewers that she was leaving the show throughout an emotional episode on September 26, sharing that she needed to spend more time with her daughters whereas they develop up.

“Clearly I had my kiddos late in life, and I used to be considering that they deserve a much bigger piece of my time pie that I’ve,” the Hope Is a Rainbow writer defined to the viewers and her colleagues. “I really feel like we solely have a finite period of time.”

The mother of two will mark her last episode of As we speak in early 2025, however she’s going to nonetheless stay a part of the NBC household after that. Hoda shared that her daughters are so excited for her to be house extra.

“I used to be telling them, ‘Mommy goes to have the ability to take you to high school,’ they usually go, ‘Wednesday?’ ‘No honey, not Wednesday.’ ‘Subsequent week?’ I am going, ‘No honey, not subsequent week. In all probability someplace January, February,’” she mentioned throughout an look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on October 7. “[They said] ‘January, February?’ I’d as properly proceed working perpetually. For them it’s like ‘til the top.”

Through the look, Hoda additionally mentioned that she at the moment wakes up at 3:15 a.m. to get to work on time on As we speak. However that may actually change as soon as she leaves the present.

“I used to be like, they want a bit extra of me, and I would like extra of them. And, so, I believe it’s all going to work out superbly,” she shared of her need to spend extra time together with her youngsters.

The speak present persona lately moved into a new home together with her children within the suburbs and was in a position to take Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, to their first day of faculty.

“We went for our first day of faculty,” she instructed Jenna Bush Hager throughout a September 4 episode of As we speak With Hoda & Jenna. “I carried a espresso and I had my sneakers and I walked my children to high school. It was superior!”

She admitted it was arduous to maneuver out of their NYC condominium and into a brand new place within the suburbs, however the choice was completely price it for the sake of her ladies.

“We’ve had seven nice years within the metropolis with children and that’s wonderful, however I additionally suppose children have to have their toes within the grass and filth,” Hoda defined.