Jenna Bush Hager can at all times rely on her twin sister Barbara Bush for a little bit of inspiration!
On Wednesday, Sept. 25, the As we speak with Hoda & Jenna cohost, 42, spoke solely to PEOPLE about her particular relationship together with her sibling whereas on the Creator E-book Membership with Jenna Bush Hager and Coco Mellors hosted by Threads occasion at McNally Jackson Books Rockefeller Heart in New York.
Bush Hager, who was moderating a dialogue with Mellors for Mellors’ new novel, Blue Sisters, shares why the ebook was so inspiring to her as a sister and a reader,
“I imply, I believe one of many themes that I am at all times drawn in the direction of in literature, actually in life, is sisterhood,” the daytime discuss present host says. “As a result of having a twin actually has knowledgeable each resolution I’ve ever made.”
She provides that with out her sister, there may be a lot in life that she could not have tried to do.
“I do not assume I would have this job. I do not know [that] I’d’ve began this ebook membership. She makes me really feel courageous and empowered, as a result of she was my first viewers. She was the primary hand I held. And so I at all times felt supported, even once we have been teenagers, and we threw footwear at one another’s head,” Bush Hager tells PEOPLE.
Bush Hager, who’s an writer herself, felt Blue Sisters was fully relatable.
“I believe the way in which that Coco describes sisterhood in such an actual approach, it is not sugar coated. They are not good, these sisters. The Blue Sisters have some deep flaws, identical to all of us do. And but, they’re higher once they discover house inside one another. And I really like that. I really like the idea of that,” she continues.
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Bush Hager tells PEOPLE that she and her twin have been “main readers” rising up, and nonetheless are right this moment.
“I like to recommend books to her on a regular basis. And he or she sends, effectively, she would not ship books to me,” Bush Hager says — however not as a result of her sister doesn’t care.
“As a result of I am unable to learn the rest, as a result of I’ve to work. However she’s studying a ebook I simply despatched her. She learn Blue Sisters, and she or he cherished it,” Bush Hager provides of the novel, which is her September 2024 Learn with Jenna ebook membership decide.
She and Bush are the daughters of former President George W. Bush and his spouse, Laura Bush.
On the Monday, Sept. 23, broadcast of As we speak with Hoda and Jenna, Bush Hager recalled a time she was moderating an occasion and her well-known father, 78, teased her in entrance of former President Barack Obama.
She was talking at A&E and Historical past Channel’s Historical past Discuss dialog when her dad took over and introduced up one in every of her not-so-proud moments.
“I used to be with my dad and mom which is already actually hilarious as a result of [of] the dynamic,” she stated. “[He] was like, ‘Alright Jenna, why don’t you inform everyone concerning the time you have been arrested?’ It was simply an hour roast. I’d ask questions, he would roast me a little. I’d ask a query, slight roast.”
Later, Obama, 63, who “should have seen among the roasting,” stated to Bush Hager, “This have to be exhausting for you.”
“And I stated, ‘Sure it’s,'” she informed her co-host Hoda Kotb.