Hoda Kotb shared a few of the present requests that her daughters had for Christmas this yr and what she instantly mentioned no to.
“They need make-up, however what’s that about?” Hoda, 60, mentioned throughout an look on Late Evening with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, December 18. “That’s not taking place. What are we speaking about? All these little youngsters, like younger youngsters, 7, 8, 9, are into skincare and stuff. However we don’t have that in my home. That’s an enormous no.”
Whereas Haley and Hope is not going to be getting any make-up for Christmas this yr, Hoda mentioned there are a few different issues on her women’ Christmas lists.
“They requested Santa for magic units. They like magic units,” the mother of two revealed. “They like American Lady dolls. What else are they into? They’re into something with bubbles.”
Hoda shares Haley and Hope with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman. It is going to be the primary Christmas that Hoda and her daughters might be spending of their new suburban home.
Only in the near past, the broadcaster unveiled her Christmas card for 2024. Within the photograph, Hoda is holding Hope, 5, in her arms whereas Haley, 7, stands subsequent to her in entrance of the well-known Rockefeller Heart Christmas tree.
Hoda defined that she determined to take the photograph in entrance of the landmark after going to see Elf on Broadway with her kids.
“We went to see Elf yesterday and we obtained the image. [I ordered the cards on] Shutterfly. Hit the button. That’s what you do. We simply did it proper there on the tree,” she mentioned throughout an episode of Right this moment With Hoda & Jenna.
The Christmas card merely says “Merry Christmas” on the high, with Christmas lights across the border.
“You’re actually leaning into that old-fashioned adorning development that we talked about on the present,” Jenna Bush Hager mentioned after Hoda unveiled the vacation card.
Jenna’s household’s Christmas card was a bit extra out of the field. On the entrance of the cardboard, Jenna and her husband, Henry Hager, had been wearing regular apparel with their youngsters, Mila, Poppy and Hal. On the again of the cardboard, all of them wore fascinating costumes.
“What is that this?” Hoda requested when she noticed Jenna’s unconventional Christmas card.
“We’re dressed as olden instances folks. Hal is a dinosaur or a dragon,” she defined. “And [we’re] simply wishing you hope ever after. You understand what I imply?”
Hoda identified that everybody regarded “cranky” however Jenna assured her that was not the case once they snapped the photograph.
“No, that’s our look. We mentioned, ‘Pose in a sure manner.’ And all people introduced out their finest faces,” Jenna mentioned, to which Hoda replied, “Are you certain? Is that what occurred?”
“I believe so,” Jenna confessed.
In fact this vacation season has been bittersweet for followers of Right this moment, as it’s Hoda’s final as a member of the Today team. She hosted her closing Rockefeller Heart Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on December 4, getting visibly emotional on the occasion whereas standing subsequent to cohost Savannah Guthrie. Her closing episode of the discuss present might be on January 10.
