Everything To Know About Her 2 Adopted Daughters – Hollywood Life

• Hoda Kotb has been an anchor on ‘Today’ since 2007
• The famous TV personality welcomed her first of two adopted daughters in 2017 at the age of 52
• In January 2022, she broke off the 2-year engagement to her boyfriend of 10 years
• In February of 2023, her youngest daughter was hospitalized.

Hoda Kotb has announced her plans to leave the Today show to devote more time to her family. In a clip shared on X by Today, the 60-year-old expressed her desire to focus on her family, stating, “a new decade of my life lies ahead, and now, my daughters and my mom need and deserve a bigger slice of my time pie.” After several years on the show, the mother of two realized it was time to prioritize her daughters. This decision highlights how Kotb values family in times of need and how she thrives in motherhood, which began later in life at age 52.

“Sometimes I wonder like, ‘How did this happened? How did I get this?’” Hoda said of becoming a parent to E News. “I used to feel almost undeserving of it. But I don’t anymore. Something happened within me where I was like, ‘You know what, I’m worthy of these children, I’m worthy of myself. I’m enough just as I am. I will nurture and love these little girls, as long as God lets me have them for as long as I’ll be here.’”

And she’s very much open to adopting another child to expand her brood! Or at least she was toying with the idea in 2020, while she was still engaged to her boyfriend of 9 years, financier Joel Schiffman. “We wondered, you know, would our family be better with another child? Do we have enough love, do we have enough time, you know, will we be a better family unit?” she recalled to ET. “And the answer to all those questions seems to be ‘yes, we would be.’ But you can’t control how life works,” she added. “It’s in God’s ha…

Sadly, Hoda announced she and Joel broke off their engagement in January 2022.  “We decided that we are better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple, so we decided that we are going to start this new year on our new path as loving parents to our adorably delightful children and as friends,” Hoda said on the third hour of Today. It remains to be seen if Hoda’s two daughters will still end up with another sibling, but drama did rock the family in February of 2023 when Hoda disappeared from the Today Show, later to reveal that her youngest daughter Hope had been hospitalized. She’s since been brought home and is recovering.

Let’s meet Hoda’s two girls, below!

Hayley Joy

In February 2017, at the age of 52, Hoda told her Today family that she welcomed her first child, Hayley Joy Kotb. “She’s a Valentine’s baby. She is the love of my life,” Hoda said on the show at the time. “I didn’t know my heart could feel like this. This is a moment in my life that I never thought would happen, and here it is, happening to me.”

Hoda, who was previously married to Burzis Kanga from 2005 to 2007, also celebrated the news on her Instagram. “And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, ‘Oh there you are. I’ve been looking for you,’” read the inspirational message.

Hope