Jenna Bush Hager shares a strong bond with her twin sister Barbara, but they seem to have had very different experiences growing up. of today The host told Hoda Kotb all about this on Friday's (November 29) broadcast, when she was debating whether or not to always invite siblings to the same event.
Bush Hager said that as twins, she can understand that children aren't always invited to the same events as their siblings.
“I think as twins, everything doesn't always work out perfectly for both of us,” she told Kotb. “I mean, my sister went to Yale, okay? She didn't even apply to Ivy League schools.”
“And my parents weren't like, 'Let's hope Jenna's feelings aren't hurt,'” she continued. That was life. ”
Bush Hager added that her sister even won a math contest as a child. “I can’t even add 3+3!” she said. “But I think we need to embrace each of our children individually. We were definitely invited to different things.” She explains that mothers also take their children to events that are of interest to them. He gave it to me.
“Not everything went well,” Kotb said.
Bush Hager spoke at length about how her college experience was different from her sister's. In a previous broadcast, she and Kotb discussed how getting rejected from college is a “rite of passage” for teenagers.
“It happens to almost everyone, except my sister Barbara Bush,” she said. According to Bush Hager, her sister “got into every school she applied to.”
She also confessed on the show that she tried to get into Stanford University on her sister's back, but thought she would be automatically admitted because she thought there was a “twin policy.”
“When one twin goes in, you automatically let the other one in because you don't want your soul to be crushed,” she told Kotb. people.
However, her father did not take part in the plan. He was “the exact opposite of the college admissions scandal,” she joked. He reportedly “dissuaded her from applying by saying, 'No, you're not.'” Don't ruin her chances! ”
Today with Hoda and Jenna It airs weekdays on October 9th on NBC.
