CouldHoda Kotb‘s daughters be getting a new little sibling soon?
“I don’t know. I’m not 100 [percent] sure,” Kotb said after a lengthy pause whenEllen DeGeneresasked her about the potential of expanding her family. “I’m a sign person — I always look for signs — and I feel like there are some signs out there that are pointing to [having more kids].”
“I was scribbling in my journal and I was asking myself that question and I wrote in there, ‘I’m wondering if we should.’ And I wrote, ‘Do we have enough love?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes,’ ” she continued. “And I said, ‘Do we have enough time?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘Wouldour family be more enhanced?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes.’ ”
“So I was thinking maybe the answer’s yes,” Kotb said.
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“And plus, when you’re parents later in life … watching Haley and Hope together, all I really want is for them to have someone to hold their hand forever, and that’s it,” Kotb continued. “That’s all I want. I was scared, because we’re older, like maybe [it’s too late]. But then I realized they’ll have each other.”
Kotb and her financier beau Schiffman, 61, havebeen together for six years,and gotengaged in November during a beach trip. And at this juncture, as a mom, the longtime television journalist feels like her “life, finally, makes sense.”
“I think I thought it did [before] but now, when I get home after work — and that’s usually in the afternoon — Haley, my older one, jumps 5 feet, 9 inches into my arms,” she shared. “I get that when I go home. And Hope smiles at me. And I said to Joel, I’ve worked my whole life, and my work has always ridden sidecar, forever. And all of a sudden, I have clarity. It’s weird.”
“I still remember walking down the street one dayafter I had adopted Haley and this ladycame up and she said, ‘Do you have children?’ And for a hundred years I said, ‘No, I don’t, but I have nieces.’ And I looked at her and said, ‘I have a daughter.’ And she goes, ‘You have a daughter?’ I was like, ‘A daughter.’ I kept repeating it because it seemed so foreign.”
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In the meantime,Kotb is focusing on her healthand stamina, making sure she’s in tip-top shape to handle all the activity having small children at home brings.
“I actually, for the first time got a trainer, and he said, ‘What do you want to do?’ I said, ‘I want to get on the floor and get up a hundred times.’ I said, ‘I want to be able to lift up 35 lbs. and throw 35 lbs. in the air,’ ” she recalled.
“He goes, ‘Do you want toned arms?’ [I said] ‘I don’t care. I want to get down and get up, get down and get up,’ ” the mother of two told DeGeneres, 62. “And that’s what I’ve been doing. And I think it’s funny —when you want to do something, yourenergy kicks in.”
“How much are you paying this trainer to get down and get up? Because I can train you, if you’d like,” the host joked, to the laughter of her guest and studio audience. “I got some ideas about getting down and up.”
source: people.com
