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Feast Shares new details about her 6 year old daughter’s health battles Hope-and how they played part in her decision to leave Today.
In an interview with People It was announced on Wednesday, May 28, Kotb, 60, revealed that hope has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
“She had shots – four or five a day – every day for a year. Now she gets them less often because we have some other way to get what she needs, but there’s a lot for him,” Kotb explains. “Some children can get sweets and she can’t. If it’s up at night, we have to take care of it in the evenings.”
Despite her health battles, Kotb said Hope was a “happy, healthy, fragile, amazing child, and we have to watch it.” He added, “Diabetes is a part of it, but not all of it. Hopefully it shapes it but never defines it.”
Hoda Kotb has shared many life milestones – triumphant and difficult – with television audiences for years. Kotb failed several episodes of The Today Show in early 2023. Her Cohosts Craig Melvin and Sheinelle Jones announced March that her absence was due to “family health issue,” which KotB revealed later in question (…)
Hope’s Type 1 diabetes diagnosis played in her decision to Step away from Today Earlier this year. “I really wanted and I needed to be here to watch for her. So whenever she needs anything, and it can happen at night, many times, I’m up – I’m up up,” Kotb told the outlet. “But I would never want hope to grow up one day and say, ‘Oh, my mother left her job because (of me).’ That was not alone.
Post-TodayKotb’s banter that her children have a “split verdict” because she worked on her new welfare brand, Joy 101, from home. “I think they love it on a few days and sometimes I think I may cramp their style a little, because they were used to morning routine without me,” he quoted. “I still feel like I’m learning how to be a quieter mother, and I want to be that mother for them, so I’m still a work in the pipeline there.”
Kotb-which shares Hope and Haley’s daughter, 8, with her former festival, Joel Schiffman – previously taken a a week -long absence from Today early in 2023 because of a The issue of family health. After returning to the NBC Show of that parade, he revealed that the reason behind their hiatus was because there had been hope At the hospital in the ICU.
“I’m so grateful she’s home,” said Kotb on the air at the time, without specifying the details of her daughter’s condition. “I was waiting for that day to come. And we watch it closely. I’m so happy.”
Hoda Kotb with Hope and Haley girls.
Courtesy of Hoda Kotb/InstagramKotb opened for the Hope Hospital For the first time in March 2024. “Any parent who has been through a scary with their child understands. It’s like you can’t believe that your child is ill,” he shared in an interview with People. “You can’t believe that there is nothing you can do. You can’t believe, no matter what you do, you can’t give it away or protect it, or all the things we’re supposed to do as parents. And it’s a job I’ve never found myself in.”
Kotb told the outlet she didn’t want hope to “be labeled” because of her medical condition, noting, “She’s so vibrant, and most days everything is absolutely right. I don’t want people to look at it differently.”
Kotb noted that he would not “put my concern on (hope),” as it was “too much for a child to carry.” She also credited her family’s faith for being a sense of strength during their difficult time.
“I’m looking at her, and I think, ‘Wow, you bloomed into this amazing child who is as durable and with good tools for her whole life despite these things that have happened to her,'” Kotb said of her most. “She just shows when you have whatever she has inside her, this, this fighting, will do everything … she can withstand anything. This child is going to get the easiest adulthood because she has got a try hard early.”
Truly grateful. Hoda Kotb thanked her supporters for their messages of support after her recent health daughter Hope. “I’ve read your notes … your posts … thank you,” tweeted the show today, 58, on Tuesday, March 7. “Meaning more than you’ll ever know xo.” The Oklahoma native returned to his job (…)
Shortly after she and her daughters move out of New York City And into the suburbs, Kotb revealed that Hope was “thriving” In an interview October 2024 with People. “She gets better, we watch it, and I think that as time goes on, we’ll have a better handle on it, but we’re already seeing big differences,” he said. “We have very excellent care, I have people who help us out. I feel she finds a consistent foundation.”
Haley and Hope were beside Kotb during her last chapter of Today On January 10. Kotb shared sweet new pictures of herself and her children to celebrate Mothering Sunday earlier this month. “Happy Mothers’ Day from our family to yours Xoxoxo,” she headed Instagram photos from their family holiday break.
