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Jenna Bush Hageris thrilled to be welcoming her daughter home from summer camp.
On Monday’s episode ofToday with Hoda and Jenna, Bush Hager opened up to co-hostHoda Kotbabout picking up her oldest child, daughterMargaret “Mila” Laura, from her summer at Camp Longhorn in Texas. The camp is the same one Bush Hager attended as a kid.
Bush Hager shared videos on Instagram and later, on the show, that illustrate just how happy Mila, 9, was to reunite with dad Henry Hager. “We got our girl,” she captioned the video where Mila hugs him tight.
The sweetest part was watching Mila reunite with younger siblingsHenry “Hal” Harold, 3, andPoppy Louise, 6.
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Last summer, theTodayco-host revealed on air that she received the “saddest"letter from her then-8-year-oldthat “broke my heart in a million pieces.” Bush Hager read the heart-wrenching letter on the broadcast, with the emotional note going viral afterward.
Though things got off to a rough start, Bush Hager later told PEOPLE that Mila eventually got acclimated and came to “love” her camp experience.
“It broke both of our hearts, but I didn’t think that … I just put it out there. People would stop me on the street and be like, ‘When are you going to get Mila?’ I’m like, ‘I was just reading a letter!’ Then, the camp called, they felt really bad,” she said in a conversation with PEOPLE ahead of theGeorge H.W. Bush Points of Light Awards. “They were like, ‘Don’t worry, she’s happy.’ I was like, ‘No, it’s all okay.’ "
The mom of three explained to PEOPLE that Mila “was really homesick.”
“She went to camp in Texas; she’s from New York City and it’s like 97 degrees outside on a lake in Texas, so there might’ve been some slight culture shock that I don’t really appreciate because I went to that camp but I was from Texas and was used to the summers,” Bush Hager explained.
source: people.com
