Today show host Hoda Kotb bravely spoke about the moment she realized she wanted to adopt children
October 26, 2021 - 18:45 BST Rebecca Lewis Today show host Hoda Kotb has bravely spoken about the moment she realized she wanted to adopt children.Hoda, who is mom to two girls, was speaking to Sheryl Crow on her podcast Making Space about the singer's adoption of two boys, who are now teenagers.
"You were here at the Today show downstairs in the dressing room with your boys when they were little," shared Hoda, adding:"And I remember watching you and thinking 'I want something like that one day.'" "And one day I was walking with a girlfriend and she said, 'me and you didn't want kids so it worked out great,' and I said, 'no I did and I thought I had missed it' and just saying it out loud, it was weird, but then I said it again, and it made it real."
The 59-year-old shared that her mom told her:"You have a family around you who will stand at the altar with you at baptism and say, 'We are his community, or her community.'"
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