Jenna Bush Hager sets the record straight.
Wednesday, September 25 episode Today with Hoda and Jennathe 42-year-old woman explained why her ring finger is bare.
During a segment of the show “Social Dilemmas,” she and co-host Hoda Kotb responded to a viewer who wrote about the engagement ring debacle. The viewer explained that they knew their partner was about to propose with a “horrible” heirloom ring and asked the hosts for their thoughts on how to handle the situation.
In response, Bush Hager raised her hand, which was visibly missing the ring. “I’m not wearing my ring, but don’t worry … we’re still happy together, but I broke my finger,” she explained, referring to her husband, Henry Chase Hager.
The host went on to say that Chase Hager “remade” a relative’s ring when he proposed to her.
“I mean [it was] his grandmother’s, or somebody’s… I mean, we’ve been married a long time,” Bush Hager said, before advising the viewer to “find a way” to have an honest conversation about the ring before their partner proposes. .
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“Did you ever hear the story about Savannah’s 50th birthday, when I woke up the next morning and one stone fell out of my engagement ring?” she said to Kotba.
The presenter went on to say that she was “not really sure” where the stone had gone and that at the time she was worried about telling her husband.
“I was also panicking like, ‘Should I tell Henry now, as soon as I wake up? Or should I tell him after he’s maybe eaten something.’ I just said, you have to tell him right away, and he was…”
Jenna Hager and her husband Henry Chase Hager.
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“I’m not happy,” Kotb interjected.
“A little grumpy,” Bush Hager replied, adding that the stone “was never found.”
Bush Hager previously shared another story about losing a ring at John F. Kennedy Airport en route to a photo shoot, according to Brides.
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“I was stressed. I come to the set and look around,” she said during the April episode Today. “I’m like, ‘Oh no, I had a whole bag of jewelry.'”
Luckily, the “lovely man” brought the ring to security and it was returned to Bush Hager.
“I couldn’t even tell Henry because if I lose our engagement ring, it’s priceless,” the host admitted. “So I was keeping a secret from Henry too, which was hard.”
Bush Hager met her husband in 2004 when he worked for her father, former President George W. Bush. They got engaged in 2007 and married in May 2008. Together they have three children: daughters Mila (11) and Poppy (9) and son Hal (5).
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