Selena Gomez said that she is unable to carry her own children, and Hoda Kotb expressed empathy for her
The news anchor adopted her daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman.
Hoda Kotb is relating to Selena Gomez, after she recently revealed she’s unable to carry her own children despite her strong desire to become a mother.
Speaking to Vanity Fair for the outlet’s October issue, published Monday, Sept. 9, the Rare Beauty founder, 32, revealed, «I unfortunately can’t carry my own children.”
Kotb, 60, then touched on the topic on the Tuesday, Sept. 10 episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna, recalling her personal experience welcoming her daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, through adoption with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman.
«I think it was something that she dreamt would always happen,» the news anchor said of Gomez before thinking back to when she came to terms with her own fertility struggles.
«You know how you kind of write your story in your head? [Like,] ‘I’ll get married sometime here or there or at this age, and then I’ll have kids,’
and you can kind of imagine it?» she asked co-host Jenna Bush Hager. «I think that was probably the toughest part, is like, you know that you can see it.”
