Jenna Bush Hager can vividly remember her husband Henry Chase Hager’s marriage proposal — plus the secret service agent who was present!
During Today with Hoda and Jenna on Thursday, Oct. 3, Bush Hager, 42, and Hoda Kotb, 60, discussed Lady Gaga’s recent engagement to Michael Polasnky when they decided to take their own trip down memory lane.
“I love that, they went on a whole hike,” Bush Hager said of Polansky proposing to the Joker: Folie à Deux star, 38.
According to Kotb, proposing on top of a mountain is a bit “predictable.”
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“We’re at the top, let’s do a proposal,” she said.
“I got proposed at [the] top of a mountain. Are you calling that a predictable proposal?” Bush Hager asked her co-host, who laughed off the interrogation.
Bush Hager continued, “We hiked Cadillac Mountain, which is in Acadia in Maine, national park, which is so pretty. And he proposed to me at the top. Now listen, I wasn’t predicting it.”
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An intrigued Kotb wanted to know if Bush Hager was indeed surprised by the declaration of love, to which she responded that she’d actually been “very cranky” before the big moment.
“Grumpy, a little grumpy. And he said, ‘Let’s stop for a Luna bar, the sun is about to come up let’s watch it together.’ And I said, ‘No, I’m too cold to stop.’ I said, ‘Let’s please keep going.’ He said, ‘Can we please stop for a Luna bar?’ I said, ‘No we can’t!’ And then finally he said, ‘We’re stopping for a Luna bar’ and I was like, ‘Ugh,’ ” Bush Hager recalled.
“And then he proposed.”
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She added she was no longer “cranky” after that.
The two ladies then discussed the possibility of Gaga getting married in a courthouse or having an elaborate wedding.
“I think some people like to do big proposals and big things and spectacles and all that kind of stuff and then some people just do [the opposite]. Yours was private and it was in your own private time,” Kotb said to her co-host.
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However, Bush Hager, who is the daughter of former President George W. Bush, admitted there was a reason that her then-boyfriend kept things semi-private.
“Well, it was private except there was a secret service man a couple paces behind me. So it was ‘private,’ ” she quipped.
“So, after you and Henry, he was the first person who knew about your proposal?” Kotb asked of the secret service agent.
Bush Hager replied, “Yeah, very weird. That’s why I need lots of therapy.”
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