Jenna Welch Bush Hager is a journalist, author, and news personality from the United States. She co-hosts the fourth hour of NBC’s morning news programme Today with Hoda & Jenna. Jenna Bush Hager is also a writer, an editor-at-large for Southern Living, and an NBC television personality. Bush is also famous for her work as a journalist, contributor, and co-host on The Today Show.
What was Jenna Bush Hager’s early life like?
Hager was born on November 25, 1981, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, to former First Lady Laura Bush and the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. She was given the name Jenna Hawkins Welch in honour of her grandmother. JennaBush Hagar and her sister Barbara studied at the Preston Hollow Elementary School.
Later they went to The Hockaday School while the family was living in Dallas. Bush was a student at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in 1994, when her fatherGeorge W. Bush was elected as governor of Texasand the family moved to Austin, Texas. Bush attended Austin High SchoolFrom 1996 until her graduation in 2000.
She also studied at New York University over the summer and attended the University of Texas at Austin. She was a legacy memberof the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, which was also her mother Laura Bush’s sorority. Bush received an English degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004.
What is known about Jenna Bush Hager’s personal life?
Jenna Welch Bush Hager identifies as a nonpartisan and claims she is not a Republican. Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush Hager stated in an interview from 2010 that they prefer not to associate with any political party and are rather free-thinkers.
Bush is married to Henry Chase Hager. He is the son of John H. Hager, a former chairman of the Virginia Republican Party and a former lieutenant governor of Virginia and assistant secretary of education under the George W. Bush administration. She first met Henry while he was campaigning for the position of president in 2004. In August 2007, they couple got married. When the two made an appearance together at a White House dinner for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in November 2005, their romance came into the public eye.
Henry was a student of the St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, Virginia from where he studied MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He supported Karl Rove in the White House and Carlos Gutierrez at the U.S. Department of Commerce, respectively.
Henry asked President Bush’s permission to marry his daughter before making the proposal. On May 10, 2008, they got married at the Prairie Chapel Ranch outside Crawford, Texas, in a secret wedding ceremony. There are three kids born to Henry and Jenna Hager named, Mila, Hal and Poppy Louise Hager.
What does Jenna Bush Hager’s other works include?
Hager worked as a teacher’s assistant at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School for an entire year and a half before relocating from Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2006. As part of an internship for UNICEF’s Educational Policy Department in Latin America, mainly Panama, she took a leave of absence from her position at the charter school to work at a shelter and then after completing her internship with UNICEF she resumed her position in the charter school. At the SEED Public Charter School in Baltimore, Maryland, she worked as a part-time reading coordinator. She even provided a monthly news piece about education for the Today show.
She is the author and coauthor of multiple New York Times bestselling titles such as Everything Beautiful in Its Time and Ana’s Story. Jenna along with her mother Laura also wrote twobooks for children named Read All About Itand Our Great Big Backyard. Her book Sisters First, written in collaboration with her sister was published in both adult and children’s editions.
Hager started promoting a book idea in 2007 with the help of Washington lawyer Robert B. Barnett. The book, Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, describes Ana’s experiences working as an intern for the United Nations Children’s Fund with UNICEF-sponsored NGOs in Latin America, including trips to a drought-stricken Paraguay in 2006. HarperCollins published the book in March 2007, and on September 28, 2007, it was made available to the public after an initial printing of 500,000 copies. Her portion of the proceeds will be sent to UNICEF, with the remaining funds supporting the young woman’s continued education by going to the woman whose life served as the inspiration for the book.
What is Jenna Bush Hager doing now?
NBC News has employed Jenna Bush since 2009 as a correspondent, contributor to Today, and anchor. NBC hired Hager in August 2009 to serve as a journalist and contributor for The Today Show. At the funeral service for her late grandfather, Jenna Hager read (2018) Hager’s popularity on Today has grown over time, and she now fills in as the orange room anchor from 7 to 9 a.m. and takes Hoda Kotb’s or Kathie Lee Gifford’s place for the fourth hour.
She spoke with Michelle Obama in 2018 about her time in the White House, the difficulties she had parenting her girls in the public eye, and her book Becoming. Obama mentioned that, despite their political differences, Hager’s father, George, was a bipartisan politician during their discussion of the political climate and political bipartisanship.
Hager launched the monthly book club Read with Jenna on the Today Show in March 2019. Hager and Hoda Kotb started co-anchoring Today’s fourth hour in April 2019 after Kathie Lee Gifford left the show.
Hager was appointed editor-at-large of Southern Living magazine on November 26, 2012.
How did Jenna Bush Hagger react to the capitol invasion of 2021?
Jenna Bush Hager discussed the disturbance that occurred on Today with Hoda & Jenna the morning after the bloody rioting at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021. The daughter of former President George W. Bush broke down in tears when speaking with co-host Hoda Kotb and said that this was not America that she knew. In addition, she also recalled her own experiences at the Capitol, such as attending a memorial service for her late grandfather, former President George H.W. Bush.