Yahoo Lifestyle Jenna Bush Hager Smiles with Her 3 Kids as She Celebrates Her 43rd Birthday at Home: 'Feeling So Grateful'
The 'Today' co-host is mom to daughters Mila, 11, and Poppy, 9, and son Hal, 5, whom she shares with husband Henry Hager
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Jenna Bush Hager celebrates her birthday with her family.Jenna Bush Hager is taking in every moment as she celebrates another year around the sun.
On Monday, Nov. 25, the Today co-host turned 43, and sweetly celebrated at home surrounded by her three children — daughters Poppy, 9, Mila, 11, and son Hal, 5 — and her husband Henry Hager. The mom of three shared a few snaps to Instagram of the family of five smiling with a platter of cupcakes as she blew out a birthday candle.
"Feeling so grateful for all the love...really soaking it in," the birthday girl captioned her post. "As someone wrote to me today, hoping I slow it all down a little so I can appreciate every single second. Thanks for it all."
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The host also celebrated her birthday on the Nov. 25 episode of the Today show alongside Hoda Kotb. Bush Hager was surprised with champagne and flowers as they joked about her turning 30.
“Are we celebrating again tonight or no?” Kotb inquired.
“No, I think we’ll chill, my sister’s coming,” Bush Hager responded, referring to her twin Barbara Pierce Bush. “Can I say happy birthday to my twin, my little sissy? She doesn’t watch our show, but if she did, we’d say ‘Happy birthday.’”
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Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager accept the award for Best On-Air Talent - Lifestyle/Entertainment at the 46th Annual Gracie Awards on October 5, 2021.“On Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we’ll do a joint party for the kids,” she continued to explain. “Don’t you think that birthdays are kind for the kids?"
"They’ll celebrate," she added. "Mila wants to make a cake.”
“I’m pre-menopausal!” Bush Hager also joked on the fourth hour of her birthday show.
She continued, “We put up our Christmas tree last night, and Henry did something very sweet for me – he planned a dinner party that was murder mystery themed,” she shared. “I’ve always wanted to do that where you solved a mystery.”
