“No! No! Did somebody actually do that?”
Jenna Bush Hager’s family had mixed reactions to her new hairstyle.
The 43-year-old talk show host shocked viewers on June 16 when she had celebrity hairstylist Chris McMillan give her a classic bob hairstyle live on “Today with Jenna & Friends.”
The new hairdo was inspired by guest host Leslie Bibb’s “The White Lotus” character, Kate Bohr.
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“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 at the start of the segment.
As McMillan was chopping her hair, Bush Hager joked that her daughter begged her not to get the haircut and warned her that she was “going to regret it.”
But she did it, anyway — and her children got to see it later that day.
“I don’t like it,” Bush Hager’s 12-year-old daughter, Mila, said without hesitation.
“Why would you do that,” her 5-year-old son, Hal, quipped as her other daughter, Poppy, 9, ran away crying — though Bush Hager later clarified that it was “fake crying.”
But while her children didn’t like the new haircut, her husband more than approved.
“He was like, ‘Damn, that’s hot!’ Which was sweet…” Bush Hager said of her husband, Henry Chase Hager, who earned even more points when he witnessed their childrens’ reactions.
“She’s nine…. She don’t know fashion…” Henry Chase Hager said after one of their daughters told his wife that she “didn’t look good.”
Bush Hager says she feels ‘a little embarrassed’ by all the attention
Fans were quick to share how much they loved Bush Hager’s new haircut.
“You were made for this cut!!” one fan, who described herself as an “almost lifetime Bob wearer,” wrote in the comment section of one of the “Today” show’s Instagram posts.
Several fans even encouraged Bush Hager to go as much as one inch shorter next time.
“Love it. I think she could’ve done even shorter Bob,” one fan commented, while another wrote, “I love it so much. I may actually get the same haircut - and my hair is really long. It’s so pretty.”
Despite all the compliments, Bush Hager said she feels “a little embarrassed” by all the attention.
Meanwhile, her guest host Leslie Bibb praised her for being brave enough to go through with the cut.
“It’s vulnerable, which I think is a way more exciting thing to be,” Bibbs explained. “To be vulnerable, which somehow is very scary, but it’s one of the biggest lessons I took from the ‘White Lotus.’”
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Fans can catch more of Bush Hager’s new hairstyle weekdays at 10 a.m. ET on NBC.
