Jenna Bush Hager can at all times rely on her twin sister Barbara Bush for a little bit of inspiration!
On Wednesday, Sept. 25, the At this time with Hoda & Jenna cohost, 42, spoke solely to PEOPLE about her particular relationship together with her sibling whereas on the Creator Ebook Membership with Jenna Bush Hager and Coco Mellors hosted by Threads occasion at McNally Jackson Books Rockefeller Middle in New York.
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Bush Hager, who was moderating a dialogue with Mellors for Mellors’ new novel, Blue Sisters, shares why the guide was so inspiring to her as a sister and a reader,
“I imply, I believe one of many themes that I am at all times drawn in the direction of in literature, actually in life, is sisterhood,” the daytime speak present host says. “As a result of having a twin actually has knowledgeable each determination I’ve ever made.”
She provides that with out her sister, there may be a lot in life that she might not have tried to do.
“I do not assume I might have this job. I do not know [that] I’d’ve began this guide membership. She makes me really feel courageous and empowered, as a result of she was my first viewers. She was the primary hand I held. And so I at all times felt supported, even once we had been teenagers, and we threw sneakers at one another’s head,” Bush Hager tells PEOPLE.
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Bush Hager, who’s an writer herself, felt Blue Sisters was utterly relatable.
“I believe the way in which that Coco describes sisterhood in such an actual approach, it isn’t sugar coated. They don’t seem to be good, these sisters. The Blue Sisters have some deep flaws, identical to all of us do. And but, they’re higher after they discover house inside one another. And I really like that. I really like the idea of that,” she continues.
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Bush Hager tells PEOPLE that she and her twin had been “main readers” rising up, and nonetheless are at present.
“I like to recommend books to her on a regular basis. And she or he sends, effectively, she does not ship books to me,” Bush Hager says — however not as a result of her sister doesn’t care.
“As a result of I can not learn anything, as a result of I’ve to work. However she’s studying a guide I simply despatched her. She learn Blue Sisters, and she or he cherished it,” Bush Hager provides of the novel, which is her September 2024 Learn with Jenna guide membership choose.
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She and Bush are the daughters of former President George W. Bush and his spouse, Laura Bush.
On the Monday, Sept. 23, broadcast of At this time with Hoda and Jenna, Bush Hager recalled a time she was moderating an occasion and her well-known father, 78, teased her in entrance of former President Barack Obama.
She was talking at A&E and Historical past Channel’s Historical past Speak dialog when her dad took over and introduced up one in every of her not-so-proud moments.
“I used to be with my dad and mom which is already actually hilarious as a result of [of] the dynamic,” she mentioned. “[He] was like, ‘Alright Jenna, why don’t you inform everyone in regards to the time you had been arrested?’ It was simply an hour roast. I’d ask questions, he would roast me slightly. I’d ask a query, slight roast.”
Later, Obama, 63, who “should have seen a few of the roasting,” mentioned to Bush Hager, “This have to be onerous for you.”
“And I mentioned, ‘Sure it’s,'” she advised her co-host Hoda Kotb.
