TODAY host Hoda Kotb fought back tears during Tuesday’s broadcast as former co-host Kathie Lee Gifford gushed about her two daughters.
In 2017, Hoda announced she’d adopted daughter Haley Joy, and two years later revealed she’d adopted another baby girl, Hope Catherine.
Kathie Lee joined as a guest on Today, one year after leaving the morning show, to discuss her new book, It's Never Too Late: Make the Next Act of Your Life the Best Act of Your Life.
While opening up about her decision to step down as co-host and start a new chapter in her life by writing a memoir, the 67-year-old said she had to stop making excuses and just get to work.
After explaining that people have to go after what they want, even if they didn’t originally think they could do it, she turned the focus onto Hoda.
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She said to her: “I mean, Hoda, you longed to be a mother, and now look at you.”
Kathie Lee, who's considering making a return to TV, continued: “She sent me a videotape of the two most beautiful little girls on the planet this morning. And I just started to cry.
“I remember when you thought, ‘I could never do that. I could never be a mother at this point.’ And look at how God has blessed [you].”
She wasn’t the only one who was crying about Hoda’s kids, though, as the 56-year-old worked to hold back tears while listening to her friend speak about her journey to motherhood.
Hoda, with one hand on her heart, got choked up and responded simply: “Yeah, you know, boy, yes. Yes and yes!”
Just a couple of months ago, the mother-of-two revealed she and fiance Joel Schiffman are planning on expanding their family even more.
The two want to adopt a third child and have already “filled out the paperwork.”
Hoda told Entertainment Tonight: "Joel and I have had this conversation because — you feel like you get a limited amount of time on Earth and your heart expands.
"And sometimes you don't realize your heart's ability to expand until you've filled (it), and sometimes you think you're at the top, and then you realize that there's more room.
"And we wondered, would our family be better with another child? Do we have enough love? Do we have enough time? Will we be a better family? And the answer to all those questions seems to be yes.
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"But you can't control how life works. All we can do is put it into the universe and fill out papers and then wait and if it happens wow, you know, that was meant to be."
Hoda and Joel were also planning on getting married this year but had to postpone due to the pandemic.
They've been together since 2013 and became engaged in November 2019.
