Jenna Bush Hager is pleased with her southern heritage, however she was a little bit perplexed by one present she acquired from her dwelling state throughout her pregnancies.
“You already know that any individual truly despatched my mother Texas dust to be put below the mattress after I delivered my kids in order that they could possibly be born on Texas soil in New York Metropolis?” Bush Hager, 41, informed As we speak cohost Hoda Kotb on the Friday, September 15, episode of the NBC morning present.
Judging by Bush Hager’s wide-eyed recollection, southern dust wasn’t one of many presents on her child registry.
She shares daughters Mila, 10, and Poppy, 8, and son Hal, 4, with husband Henry Hager, whom she married in 2008. Although they’re elevating their youngsters within the northeast, Bush Hager sends her youngsters to Texas for summer time camp to allow them to get a style of her dwelling state. The TV persona was born in Dallas and spent a lot of her childhood in Austin earlier than shifting into to Washington, D.C., at age 19 when her father, George W. Bush, turned president.
Whereas her youngsters aren’t spending all their time within the Lone Star State, she is aware of they’re getting accustomed to the Texas twang.
“They do have southern accents as a result of as soon as I begin to have a margarita and placed on some Willie Nelson, I’m an entire new individual,” Bush Hager joked.

She continued, “I’m simply gonna put a little bit recording of their ears once they sleep — not of their ears as a result of I’d hate to wreck them — [that says] ‘y’all, y’all, y’all.’”
Bush Hager revealed final month that Mila “loves” going to Texas for summer time camp. After the 10-year-old returned from her three-week journey in July, the previous first daughter gushed over reuniting along with her infant. “It’s value sending your child to camp simply so you may get them again,” she stated on As we speak With Hoda and Jenna.
She added that Mila was one of many solely youngsters from exterior the realm, however she’s certainly one of a number of second-generation kids on the camp. Bush Hager loved the identical summer time programming when she was rising up and several other of her friends ship their kids yearly.
“She’s in all probability one of many solely youngsters from the Northeast — it’s a variety of Texans. It’s actually scorching, no air con, however she loves it,” Bush Hager defined. “It’s so enjoyable to go see her and really feel that independence. It’s, like, sleepaway camp is a proper of passage.”