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- Jenna Bush Hager’s kids had a negative reaction to seeing their mom’s new haircut
- The mom of three decided to cut her hair into a ‘White Lotus’-inspired bob after guest co-hosting her show with Leslie Bibb
- Bush Hager shares her kids with husband Henry Hager
Jenna Bush Hager’s new haircut may take some time for her kids to get used to.
On Tuesday, June 17, the mom of three, 43, debuted her new haircut after cutting her long locks into a White Lotus-inspired bob while live on air during a Monday, June 16 episode of Today with Jenna & Friends. During Tuesday’s show, Bush Hager told co-host Leslie Bibb that her kids had an adverse reaction to her new style after she came home from yesterday’s taping.
“I will say, I walked in to show my children and you just…I videoed it,” Bush Hager shared before playing a video of her three kids’ reactions. “I think they thought they were getting a puppy.”
“What is it?” All three of Bush Hager’s kids could be heard saying as they walked into the room before they began to scream.
“What are you doing?” Bush Hager’s daughter, Poppy, 9, shrieked.
“I don’t like it,” daughter Mila, 12, told her mom. “I don’t like it!” son Hal, 5, affirmed.
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“Why would you do that?” asked Poppy before running away and throwing herself onto a chair.
“Are those real?” Bibb asked of her kids’ reactions. “Your children are monsters. They’re monsters! They started crying.”
“I know! It was sort of fake crying, I mean that’s our love language,” joked Bush Hager.
Bush Hager shares her three kids with husband Henry Hager.
The mom of three decided to cut her hair short after her guest co-host Bibb and celebrity hairstylist Chris McMillan stopped by to discuss Bush Hager’s hair. During the episode, McMillan stepped up to cut her hair live on TV, although they saved the reveal for the next day.
“When I was here back in March, Jenna vowed to get on board with the bob, and today is the day,” Bibb told the audience.
In the episode, Bush Hager spoke about McMillan’s background in celebrity hair — and the group discussed how Bibb’s White Lotus haircut was so influential that it inspired viewers of the show to chop their own hair.
“I didn’t expect it [to go viral] because it was just a grow out of a short haircut,” McMillan told Bush Hager on Monday. “The intention wasn’t to give her a bob, it was to grow her out into a bob.”
Although her kids didn’t have a great reaction to seeing her hair, Bush Hager’s husband had a much more positive look.
“The best thing is my husband [Henry Hager] did like it. He was like, ‘D— that’s hot.’ Which was sweet,” Bush Hager said, adding that he defended her when one of her girls said that she didn’t like the new cut.
Bibb proclaimed that Hager said the “best thing” in response to her daughter: “He was like, ‘She don’t know fashion.’ ”
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