It’s safe to say former PresidentGeorge W. Bushwasn’t a fan of this particular nickname.
On Tuesday’s episode ofToday with Hoda and Jenna,co-hostJenna Bush Hagershared a playful anecdote about the time one of her ex-boyfriends gave her dad, then the governor of Texas, a totally different title.
“I actually had a boyfriend once call my dad ‘Big George,’ ” Hager, 38, said on the show. She was met with audible laughs from the audience and a gasp from co-hostHoda Kotb.
“He did not!” Kotb, 55, responded.
Hager then imitated her dad’s reaction: a shocked face and trembling hands.
“I think he was the governor at the time,” the mother of two said. “And he was just like, that’s [not] how we were raised, you don’t call — I called even my godmother Regan, who I love, now I call her Regan, but I called her Mrs. Gammon for years.”
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“That has kind of gone away, like my kids call you ‘Hoda,’ ” Hager said to Kotb of her kids — daughters Poppy 4, and Margaret, 6. (She also welcomed 7-month-old son Henry “Hal” Harold last year.)
She then joked that it took having her children to stop addressing her in-laws as “Mr. and Mrs. Hager.”
“They’re lovely people and I just felt like I wanted to show them that I’m respectful,” she said of husband Henry’s parents.
Hoda Kotb (left) and Jenna Bush Hager.Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
During the show, Hager answered a viewer’s question about some of the “misconceptions” about growing up as the daughter of a president.
“It’s kind of hard to tell what people think about you,” she said, “but I do think it’s hard: People don’t really know my parents, know who they areasmy parents.”
“It’s hard to tell what people think about me, but I think probably, maybe, that I’m not a hard worker,” Hager added. “I try to fight against that a little.”
source: people.com
