Hoda Kotb Gives Update on ‘Strong’ Daughter Hope After Her Health Scare and Hospitalization: She’s ‘Resilient’

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Like mother, like daughter. Hoda Kotb has always shown strength on and off camera — and her two girls are following in her footsteps after their family’s recent health scare.“My daughters are strong women already,” Kotb, 58, said during the Tuesday, April 25, episode of Southern Living‘s “Biscuits & Jam” podcast.The Today show cohost, who shares Haley, 6, and Hope, 3, with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman, noted that Hope’s hospitalization in February proved her little one is a fighter. (Kotb’s youngest child was discharged from the ICU in March after an undisclosed illness.)“She’s getting better,” Kotb explained, confessing that watching Hope go through that “difficult time” at such a young age was “really tough” because as the parent she was “helpless.”Looking back, the journalist said she realized “just how incredibly resilient and strong she is … And I think sometimes you learn life’s lessons from the most amazing places.”Kotb recalled her daughter’s wise words during her hospital stay, which lasted a little more than one week.“Hope said, ‘You know, I think God put me here to teach people things.’ I said, ‘What?

What? What?’ She said, ‘Yeah, because my brain’s pretty big so I think I’m supposed to teach people things,’” the I Really Needed This Today author told listeners on Tuesday. “I said, ‘Sweetie, you are gonna teach people things.’”The Today With Hoda & Jenna cohost remembered that moment having after midnight in the hospital.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“She’s blurting that out, I’m like, ‘Was that real?

What just happened? Did she say that?,’” Kotb said with a laugh. “It’s like, learn from our kids. And all we have to do is model, we don’t have to teach anything.