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Jenna Bush Hager Recalls Daughter’s ‘Dark’ Cinderella Reaction on Today

Her on-air anecdote highlighted how young children can interpret fairy tales in starkly literal ways.

Overview

  • On Monday’s Today show, Jenna Bush Hager said her daughters once assumed she would die after watching Disney’s 1950 Cinderella.
  • She recalled that her eldest, Mila, asked an NBC colleague named Donna if she would be her stepmother when “my mom dies.”
  • Guest host Andy Cohen criticized the film’s focus on animal antics, calling it “52 minutes of cat and mouse play.”
  • Bush Hager, 44, shares daughters Mila, 12, and Poppy, 10, and son Hal, 7, with husband Henry Hager, whom she married in 2008.
  • She has recently joked that she wished she’d had one more child and previously explained she skipped her wedding ring due to a finger injury.