Hoda Kotb Says Former Boss Told Her to ‘Get on the Treadmill’

Throughout a current dialog on As we speak With Hoda & Jenna, Hoda Kotb revealed {that a} former boss made impolite feedback about her physique.

The dialog started when Hoda, 60, and Jenna Bush Hager mentioned Timothée Chalamet’s current feedback about receiving criticism over his physique kind when making an attempt to land performing roles when he was youthful.

“I might at all times get the identical suggestions, ‘Oh, you don’t have the suitable physique,’” he mentioned throughout an interview with Rolling Stone U.K. “I had an agent name me as soon as and say, ‘I’m uninterested in getting the identical suggestions. We’re gonna cease submitting you for these larger tasks, since you’re not placing on weight.’ I used to be making an attempt to placed on weight. I couldn’t! I principally couldn’t. My metabolism or regardless of the fuck couldn’t do it.”

Hoda mentioned that she may relate to Timothée’s feedback as a result of she too was informed that she was not match for a task earlier than.

“I imply, look, typically folks will inform you issues that you simply’re not proper for,” the Hope Is a Rainbow creator defined. “I nonetheless bear in mind I had simply began working in a small market. And I performed basketball in highschool so I at all times assumed I used to be in form regardless that, actually, after school and stuff I wasn’t.”

“I nonetheless bear in mind my boss going to me, ‘Hey, Hoda,’ and I used to be like, ‘Yeah?’ He goes, ‘Hey, I obtained an thought. Perhaps you would possibly wanna attempt to get on the treadmill,’” Hoda continued.

Jenna, 43, was audibly shocked by the comment, sharing her help for Hoda and listening intently.

“You realize when you will have a notion of your self that’s not the notion of the world?” Hoda requested, to which Jenna replied, “Yeah, it’s referred to as reverse physique dysmorphia. I’ve it too.”

“Yeah, so I used to be like, ‘What are you speaking about?’” Hoda continued. “However, for those who don’t match, they need you to put on one thing a sure manner, lower your hair a sure manner, converse a sure manner.”

This wasn’t the one time that Hoda has talked about physique picture on the present. In April 2022, Hoda defined why she’s going to always wear a bikini quite than a one-piece swimsuit.

“My mom, who’s in her 80s, wears a bikini bathing go well with. She taught me that confidence comes from the within. She is tan, bronzed, and exquisite,” Hoda mentioned throughout an episode of Today in April 2022.

“Ever since that, I too have worn a bikini,” she defined. “Who cares if stuff is goo-ing out? It doesn’t matter! You reside as soon as, how do you need to stay?! Scared?!”

However Jenna admitted that she was not a fan of carrying bikinis.

“Not all of us tan equally, a few of us have stomachs that haven’t seen the sunshine of day since I used to be 18!” she remarked.

“If that burns, how does that make my physique really feel? Not so good! A few of us even have a bigger area proper up right here,” Jenna defined whereas pointing to her chest.

Jenna, who shares children Mila, Poppy and Hal with husband Henry Hager, mentioned, “We need to throw our children within the air. When my bathing go well with fell off, it scared folks! So I prefer to be tight.”