Jenna Bush Hager Says She Was Body Shamed By Grandma Barbara When She Was A Teen

Jenna Bush Hager revealed that her precocious grandma Barbara Bush assemblage shamed her arsenic a teen. The tv host, present 41, confessed that the erstwhile archetypal woman told her that she was “looking chubby” portion wearing a yellowish bikini on TODAY With Hoda & Jenna, saying that the speech made her privation to “hide” her body. She described Barbara, who died successful 2018 astatine 92 years old, arsenic having a “biting personality” — but insists she “adored her.”

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— TODAY with Hoda & Jenna (@HodaAndJenna) January 6, 2023

Years later, Jenna said her grandma apologized for the upsetting remark — and said that she has heard akin things from her ain parent Pauline Pierce, who would beryllium Jenna’s great-grandmother. Barbara explained her parent “said those types of things” and that she had been “talking to herself” arsenic she made the comment. “Her parent ever thought of her sister arsenic the truly beauteous 1 and would accidental it…’Martha’s the beauteous one. You’re the comic one. You’re the astute one’,” she added. Jenna did say, however, that her parent Laura Bush ne'er enactment unit connected her to suffer weight.

The remark remained with Henna — who is present the ma of kids Mila, 9, Poppy, 7, and Hal, 3 — arsenic she didn’t “wear a bikini for years” she said. That each changed, however, successful 2022 erstwhile she sported a bikini with confidence. “After having 3 kids, 3 C-sections, [I did it],” she declared.

Jenna Bush is seen posing connected a carpet. (Jennifer Katzman/Shutterstock)

Jenna has antecedently been candid connected the amusement astir her struggles with value nonaccomplishment — revealing successful October that she decided to marque manner changes. “Anybody who has either gained value during the pandemic oregon had babies during the pandemic, it conscionable takes time. My assemblage isn’t 18 anymore,” she said to Hoda astatine the time. “We cognize that yo-yo dieting doesn’t work. It doesn’t. I’ve tried to but I’ve ever gained the weight,” she added.

Her secret? A caller workout regular she implemented earlier work. “The quality is I aftermath up earlier the amusement and I enactment out…And I truly enactment out. I enactment retired with an awesome pistillate named Amanda. [TODAY contributor] Donna [Farizan] joins maine sometimes,” she noted, calling her workfellow “a large inspiration.”

“I volition accidental I deliberation I person figured retired what works for me. And I deliberation the hard happening is I deliberation we expect things to hap overnight. This has really been implicit six months,” Jenna went on.

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