Jenna Bush Hager had ‘really special’ dinner with parents, sister for first time in ‘a decade’
Jenna Bush Hager gushed about spending some much-needed quality time with just her parents and her sister in over a decade.
“We went to dinner just the four of us and what we realized is, I don’t think we’ve been just the four of us in almost 20 years,” Bush Hager told Hoda Kotb on Monday’s episode of “Today with Hoda and Jenna.”
Jenna quickly corrected her “exaggeration” and clarified it’s been more like “a decade” since she, her twin sister, Barbara Bush, and their parents, former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, got to get dinner just the four of them.
“I have had a husband for a long time, we’ve had children for 10 years, Barbara has had boyfriends and husbands, et cetera, et cetera,” she continued.
Kotb immediately burst out laughing and asked what her co-anchor meant by “et cetera et cetera” with her sister, but Jenna explained she was just referencing her twin’s husband and daughter.
“There was something about it that was really special to be just the four of us. Really special,” she continued.
The “Read With Jenna” podcast host went on to say there were “no distractions” and they all “had the best time.”
“Then we went and all got in bed,” she continued. “My dad was watching some sort of football game and my mom opened her presents, and then we went to bed at 8:45.”
Jenna and her sister, both 41, had traveled from the Northeast to Dallas, Texas, where their parents live.
To further commemorate their reunion, the “Today” show anchor shared a photo from the intimate dinner, which also happened to be Laura’s 77th birthday and the couple’s 46th wedding anniversary.
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“Happiest birthday to our darling mama! We so happy to get to spend the night with you just the four of us! We love you so! @laurawbush AND happiest 46 years to our parents. Love you both!” she captioned the pic.
The sweet snap showed Jenna and Barbara sitting next to each other with the former President and First Lady smiling across from them.
Laura also gushed about how “special” her twin daughters made her birthday by visiting them.
“My birthday was made all the more special by a visit from our girls!” she captioned a photo of her in between her daughters at an event promoting Jenna and Barbara’s new book, “Love Comes First.”
Barbara has been married to Craig Coyne since 2018, and they share one 2-year-old daughter, Cora.
Meanwhile, Jenna recently celebrated 15 years of marriage with Henry Hager, and the two share three children together: daughters Margaret “Mila” Laura, 10, and Poppy Louise, 8, and son, Hal, 4.
