Jenna Bush Hager is setting the report straight.
On the Wednesday, Sept. 25 episode of At this time with Hoda and Jenna, the 42-year-old defined why her ring finger was naked.
In the course of the present phase “Social Dilemmas,” she and cohost Hoda Kotb had been responding to a viewer who had written in about an engagement ring debacle. The viewer defined that they knew their companion can be proposing quickly with a “hideous” household heirloom ring, and requested the hosts’ opinions on the right way to navigate the scenario.
In response, Bush Hager held up her personal hand, which was noticeably lacking a hoop. “I am not sporting my ring however don’t fret… we’re nonetheless pleased collectively, however I broke my finger,” she defined, referring to her husband, Henry Chase Hager.
The host went on to say that Chase Hager “redid” a relative’s ring when he proposed to her.
“I believe [it was] his grandmother’s, or someone’s… I imply, we have been married a very long time,” Bush Hager mentioned, earlier than advising the viewer to “determine a approach” to have an sincere dialog in regards to the ring earlier than their companion proposes to them.
Final week, Bush Hager recalled one other engagement ring mishap that occurred after fellow At this time broadcaster Savannah Guthrie‘s fiftieth party in 2022.
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“Did you ever hear the story about Savannah’s fiftieth birthday, the place I wakened the subsequent morning and one of many stones out of my engagement ring had fallen out?” she mentioned to Kotb.
The anchor continued that she was “not precisely certain” the place the stone went and that she on the time, she nervous about telling her husband.
“I additionally had this panic like, ‘Do I inform Henry now, proper after I get up? Or do I inform him after possibly he’s had some meals.’ I simply mentioned, you gotta inform him straight away. And he was…”
“Not pleased,” Kotb interjected.
“Just a little grumpy,” Bush Hager replied, including that the stone was “by no means discovered.”
Bush Hager beforehand shared one other story about shedding the ring at a John F. Kennedy airport on the best way to a shoot, per Brides.
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“I used to be careworn. I get to the shoot and I’m wanting round,” she mentioned throughout an April episode of At this time. “I’m like, ‘Oh no, I had a complete bag of jewellery.’”
Fortunately, a “beautiful man” introduced the ring to safety and it was returned to Bush Hager.
“I couldn’t even inform Henry as a result of if I misplaced our engagement ring, it’s priceless,” the host admitted. “So, I harbored a secret from Henry, too, which was exhausting.”
Bush Hager met her husband in 2004 when he was working for her father, former president George W. Bush. They obtained engaged in 2007 and tied the knot in Might 2008. Collectively they share three children: daughters Mila, 11, and Poppy, 9, and son Hal, 5.