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Jenna Bush Hager is getting honest about a “embarrassing” Valentine’s Day minute in between her and her other half, Henry Hager, when they were dating.
The Today with Hoda & Jenna host, 41, remembered providing her future other half a final notice to either propose to her otherwise she would transfer to Latin America.
“I had type of — in a significant style that you might or might not acknowledge — said, ‘Listen, if you do not desire me to transfer to Latin America, we require to get engaged,'” she said, confessing, “It was type of like a manipulative warning.”
However, she said he wasn’t keen on the concept, and outright informed her, “I’m not going to ask you to wed me.” But she started to believe he’d altered his mind when they headed out on a date around Valentine’s Day to an elegant restaurant called Asia Nora.
“They brought 2 glasses of champagne at the end of the meal and connected around one was the fortune which they got incorrect. It was expected to state something like, ‘Go and when you return, I’ll be here.’ But all it said was, ‘Don’t go.’ With champagne,” she said.
“And Henry is not a champagne fella, so I resembled, YES! I WILL WED YOU!,'” she continued. And his face dropped. He might have wept.”
But that wasn’t completion of it, as she said another couple at the restaurant called The Washington Post and informed them what took place, leading the story to be printed.
“And so in The Washington Post there was a post that resembled, ‘On a date night Jenna believed she was getting engaged however ends up no she wasn’t.’ Restaurant eaters heard her say, ‘I almost (beeped) my trousers’ — it said the word ‘stained,'” she said.
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REX/Shutterstock Henry Hager and Jenna Bush in 2006
“So, Henry discovered that post from The Washington Post, called The Washington Post, got the post, and framed it for Valentine’s Day so that we might constantly keep in mind the embarrassment that features love,” she continued.
She said her family would likewise frequently weigh in on her getting a proposition.
“Barbara kept informing my mama – cause I would call and be type of bad-tempered. She’d resemble, ‘I do not believe he’s going to do it. He’s going to back out. There’s no chance it’s taking place,'” Bush Hager said.
Henry ultimately proposed years later on, and the two wed in a private 2008 ceremony at previous President Bush’s separated 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. They went on to invite 3 kids: Margaret “Mila” Laura, 9; Poppy Louise, 7; and Henry “Hal” Harold, 3.
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Having been wed for almost 15 years, the couple is still going strong. On Monday’s episode of Today, Bush Hager was fit with an EEG cap, a test that keeps an eye on and determines electrical activity in the brain and revealed photos of Harry Styles, Tom Brady and even her cat Hollywood Hager. Her brain waves reacted the most highly to her other half, who even appeared to send her a message.
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“Jenna, I comprehend you simply ended up a love research study which I triumphed,” he said in the message. “You do actually love me, (and) I love you,” including that “it’s difficult to think” he triumphed.
He likewise wanted her a Happy Valentine’s Day.
