Jenna Bush Hager recently admitted she’d be open to having a fourth child.Photo:Instagram/jennabhager
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Jenna Bush Hageris open to the idea of expanding her family.
Jenna was chatting to Sheinelle Jones (who was filling in for co-hostHoda Kotb) about her youngest child Hal’srecent birthday partywhen Jones, 45, remarked that she couldn’t believe Hal was already 4.
“Is it time?” Jones queried.
“Yeah, but…” said Jenna, who is also mom to daughtersMila, 10, and Poppy, 7.
Her journalist instincts kicking in, Jones asked, “Can we announce it now?”
Jenna immediately gestured to her stomach and replied, “Well I’m not [pregnant]."
Jenna Bush Hager said her husband isn’t onboard with the idea of expanding their family.Jenna Bush Hager Instagram
Jones continued to playfully press her colleague: “Not now, but I’m saying, do you think you’d [want to have another child]?”
However, theEverything Beautiful in its Timeauthor set the record straight, insisting that Hal was unlikely to be promoted to big brother.
“No, no, no, we’re not. We’re not. Henry put his foot down. He says we have three healthy babies. I’m 41 [and] I had a little health stuff [while pregnant] with Hal,” she explained.
Still, Jones remained convinced that Jenna would find a way to win over her husband and get her wish.
“If you haven’t met Henry, he is so darn cool. You know how much I love your husband. I just think he’s the nicest guy,” she told Jenna, who later admitted that getting Henry onboard could happen, jokingly saying, “Well, I do feel like women usually have the advantage in that area.”
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During an episode ofToday with Hoda & Jennaearlier this year, Jenna confessed to trying to push Henry into another big life move. She told Kotb, 58, thatshe gave Henry an ultimatumto either propose to her or she would move to Latin America.
“When we were dating, I was leaving Washington, D.C., and I kind of — in a dramatic fashion you may or may not recognize — said, ‘If you don’t want me to leave for Latin America, we need to get engaged,’ ” she recounted. “It was kind of like a manipulative ultimatum. Real manipulative. And [I said], ‘You know, there are very handsome men over there, but could we get engaged?' "
Henry outright told her, “I’m not going to ask you to marry me,” but she began to think he had changed his mind when they went on a date to a fancy restaurant.
“They brought two glasses of champagne at the end of the meal, and tied around one was the fortune, which they got wrong. It was supposed to say something like, ‘Go and when you come back, I’ll be here.’ But all it said was, ‘Don’t go.’ With champagne,” Jenna said.
“And Henry is not a champagne fella, so I was like, ‘Yes! I will marry you!'” she continued. “And his face dropped. He could have cried.”
Henry eventually popped the question in 2007, and the couplemarried in a private ceremonyone year later at former President Bush’s 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas.
source: people.com
