Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager are opening up about weighing themselves live on TV.
During a recent episode of Today, the co-hosts decided to step onto a scale in front of viewers to reveal their weights before they began intermittent fasting.
At the time, Hoda weighed 158lbs and Jenna weighed 171lbs.
Now looking back at it, they realized they didn’t think things through, and that it brought up all struggles with body image.
“I, for a second, was transported to when I was like a chubby little girl and found a scale in my mom’s room and weighed myself. And, I, for a moment, was stuck there,” Jenna, who just had a baby in August, shared on Monday’s episode of Today. “All I heard was that. It made me feel kind of bad. I weighed myself, the last time, when I was in college, when I weighted a lot less, so it was a shock, it really was.”
Hoda added: “Look, we feel grateful. Don’t get us wrong. We’re healthy, my God no one knows better how much that matters. There’s something about standing on the scale and watching the number, like, not stop. I was like, ‘Wait, I don’t remember this number.’”
Hoda then went on to say that she and Jenna are now on this health-focused journey to feel better for their kids.
“It taught us a little lesson,” Hoda said. “I do think we’re doing this because we want to feel better. We want to feel better for our girls. We want to feel happier.”
“We teach our girls that they’re so much more than the way we look,” Jenna added. “That they’re brilliant and interesting and funny and smart and caring and compassionate and that there’s so much more in life than a number on the scale.”
