Jenna Bush Hager Remembers Husband Henry Hager’s Romantic Proposal With Hoda kotb

Jenna Bush Hager recalls her husband Henry Chase Hager’s marriage proposal. On Thursday, October 3, during Today with Hoda and Jenna, Bush Hager, 42, and Hoda Kotb, 60, talked about Lady Gaga’s recent engagement to Michael Polansky and took a moment to reflect on their own past experiences.

Bush Hager Jokes About “Predictable” Proposals

“I love that, they went on a whole hike,” Bush Hager stated of Polansky proposing to the Joker: Folie à Deux star, 38.

Kotb mentioned that proposing on a mountain is somewhat “predictable.”

“We’re at the top, let’s do a proposal,” she stated.

“I got proposed at [the] top of a mountain. Are you calling that a predictable proposal?” Bush Hager asked her co-host, Who dismissed the interrogation with laughter.

“We hiked Cadillac Mountain, which is in Acadia in Maine, national park, which is so pretty. And he proposed to me at the top. Now listen, I wasn’t predicting it,” Bush Hager added.

An interested Kotb asked Bush Hager if she was truly surprised by the declaration of love, to which Bush Hager replied that she had actually been “very cranky” before the big moment.

“Grumpy, a little grumpy. And he said, ‘Let’s stop for a Luna bar, the sun is about to come up let’s watch it together.’ And I said, ‘No, I’m too cold to stop.’ I said, ‘Let’s please keep going.’ He said, ‘Can we please stop for a Luna bar?’ I said, ‘No we can’t!’ And then finally he said, ‘We’re stopping for a Luna bar’ and I was like, ‘Ugh,’ ” Bush Hager recalled. 

“And then he proposed.”

Bush Hager Compares Private and Big Proposals

She mentioned that she was no longer “cranky” after that.

The two women then talked about the possibility of Gaga either getting married at a courthouse or having a lavish wedding.

“I think some people like to do big proposals and big things and spectacles and all that kind of stuff and then some people just do [the opposite]. Yours was private and it was in your own private time,” Kotb told her co-host.

However, Bush Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, acknowledged that there was a reason her then-boyfriend preferred to keep things somewhat private.

“Well, it was private except there was a secret service man a couple of paces behind me. So it was ‘private,’ ” she joked.

“So, after you and Henry, he was the first person who knew about your proposal?” Kotb inquired about the secret service agent.

“Yeah, very weird. That’s why I need lots of therapy,” Bush Hager responded.

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