Jenna Bush Hager has a close relationship with her twin sister Barbara, but they seem to have had very different experiences growing up. the today He told host Hoda Kotb all about it during Friday's broadcast (November 29) when they debated whether siblings should always be invited to the same events.
Bush Hager said that, as a twin, she can understand that children aren't always invited to the same events as their siblings.
“I will say, as twins, everything is not always going to go perfectly for both of them,” she told Kotb. “I mean my sister went to Yale, okay? I didn't even apply to an Ivy League school.”
“And it wasn't like my parents were like, 'Let's hope Jenna doesn't get hurt,'” she continued. “That was life.”
Bush Hager added that her sister won a math competition when she was growing up. “I couldn't even add 3+3!” She said. “But I think you just have to embrace each child. We were definitely invited to different things. Her mother also took them to events that they were interested in,” she explained.
“It wasn’t all together,” Kotb said.
Bush Hager spoke at length about how her college experience differed from her sister's. During a previous broadcast, she and Kotb were discussing how college rejection is a “rite of passage” for teens.
“This happens to almost everyone, except for my sister Barbara Bush,” she said. According to Bush Hager, her sister “got into every school she applied to.”
She also once admitted on the show that she tried to ride her sister's coattails to Stanford University, where she thought she would be automatically accepted because she thought they had a “double policy.”
“If one twin enters, they automatically let the other one in because they don’t want to crush souls,” she told Qutb. the people.
But her father wasn't on board with the plan. She joked that it was “the opposite of the college admissions scandal.” He reportedly discouraged her from applying, telling her: “No, I’m not.” Don't ruin her chances!'”
Today with Hoda and Jenna It airs weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.
