Jania Ashlynn
The Emmy Award-winning journalist has made her awaited return to the air. She appeared alongside Savannah Guthrie on the Today show. She thanked viewers for their thoughts and prayers while she dealt with her family health issues for the past two weeks.
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Hoda Kotb shared a few details about her absence. “You know what I realized too, Savannah? It’s like, when your child is ill, the amount of gratitude you can have for people who helped you out,” Kotb shared. “So I’m grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell who were amazing and the nurses. And I’m grateful for my family and I’m grateful to friends like you who were there every single day. So I want to say thank you for that. I love you.”
It’s All Love
Guthrie has returned to the air after a brief absence due to COVID-19. She responded to Kotb’s kind words with a few of her own.
“I love you too. You have a lot of friends out there. We are right there with you, lifting you up and holding you. So let’s do this. It’s nice to have you right back where you belong.”
During her two-week break from co-hosting the show, she was busy sharing uplifting messages to her social media.
She posted captions like “Choose hope” and “Sometimes miracles are just good people with kind hearts.”
On the 24th, she shared another post that read, “Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”
She captioned the photo, “I see you…you strong women.”
Journeys
Kotb has been known to share other details about her life as a mother. She spoke on a podcast called Me Becoming Mom about her journey into motherhood.
“I was actually with a girlfriend and we were walking down a street and I remember it like it was yesterday,” she shared. ” … Because I had never shared it with anyone that I had wanted — I still yearned for [having children] because it seemed like wanting to go to the moon, it’s not happening, so don’t even bring it up.”
She went on to share how she discovered that she wanted children after all. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I do want to have children, right now. Here in my current state.”
