Jenna Bush Hager Reveals Her Middle School Boyfriend Broke Up with Her After Seeing Her ‘In a Bathing Suit’

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Before Jenna Bush Hager found love with now-husband Henry Hager, she dealt with her fair share of dating misadventures.“I had a boyfriend in seventh grade who broke up with me after we went swimming together after he saw me in a bathing suit,” the former first daughter, 41, revealed during the Wednesday, April 12, episode of Today With Hoda and Jenna, while discussing Ariana Grande’s recent clapback about body-shaming criticism. “It’s so interesting because people really do hit you right where it hurts.”Bush Hager, who has cohosted the fourth hour of the Today show with Hoda Kotb since 2019, further revealed that she still gets self-conscious because of her mystery ex-boyfriend’s remarks.“I feel like, even sometimes now, when I feel great — I have three kids [who were born via] three C-sections, I feel really in my body and I think of it as a beautiful thing — I’ll walk in a pool and have a moment [of panic],” the Sisters First author — who shares daughters Mila, 9, and Poppy, 7, and son Hal, 3, with Hager, 44 — confessed on Wednesday. “There’s been times when we’ve done this show when people have written about our body and it takes you back to that moment.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesWhile Bush Hager tries not to sweat outside criticism, she’s been intentional to teach her three children how to be respectful humans. “All we want is loving children.

We don’t need the star kid, the this, the that. We want kids that are kind,” the Texas native said during the live broadcast. “The way you do that is model it.”During Bush Hager and her 58-year-old cohost’s candid conversation about body positivity, the Everything Beautiful in Its Time scribe opened up about teaching her children empathy, which “not