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Jenna Bush Hager Made Millions Going From Teacher’s Aide to ‘Today’ Cohost! See Her Staggering Net Worth
Most people know Jenna Bush Hager as the Today cohost who replaced Kathie Lee Gifford. Others know her best as a former first daughter after her dad, George W. Bush served as president from 2001 to 2009. Since stepping into the public eye, the television personality has amassed an impressive net worth. Keep scrolling to see how much money she makes and learn some interesting facts about her.
What Is Jenna Bush Hager’s Net Worth?
Jenna’s estimated net worth is $14 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She joined the Today staff back in 2009 as a correspondent who contributed once-a-month stories focused on education.
“It wasn’t something I’d always dreamed to do. But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change,” she said at the time, per the New York Times. “I hope to focus on what I’m passionate about because I think I’d do the best job on them — education, urban education, women and children’s issues, and literacy.”
Jenna worked at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School for a year and a half back in the mid-2000s. She took a leave of absence in the summer of 2006 to participate in an internship for UNICEF’s Educational Policy Department in Latin America, during which she worked in a shelter.
Since her early correspondent days, a lot has changed, including her salary. Now as a full-time cohost on NBC, Jenna has a much bigger presence on the morning talk show and her paycheck is seeing the difference. She has an estimated yearly salary of $4 million doing a job she loves.
“I love to tell people’s stories,” Jenna said in an October 2017 interview. “I think it’s an honor to interview people and listen to what they have to say and authentically portray what people are doing, so nine years later, I’ve been working for them [Today]. And I do love my job. I think it’s a privilege.”
Does Jenna Bush Hager Have Any Children?
Jenna married her husband, Henry Chase Hager, on May 10, 2008. They’ve since welcomed three beautiful children. Margaret Laura “Mila” Hager was born in April 2013 and Poppy Louise Hager was born in August 2015.
The journalist revealed she and her husband were expecting again during a Monday, April 22, 2019, episode of Today. “I am very pregnant … I don’t know how I hid these!” she joked. “[The girls] are so happy, I mean to the point where they’re telling strangers.”
Jenna gave birth to her third child and first son, Henry Harold “Hal” Hager, in August 2019.
Does Jenna Bush Hager Have Any Siblings?
Jenna has a fraternal twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush. Barbara was born before Jenna, so she’s the older one of the two. Before she and her sister were born, though, George and Laura Bush had planned to adopt.
“You know, my parents put in their adoption papers before [Barbara] and I were born,” she told her former costar Kathie Lee on Today back in February 2017. “They tried for five years and they weren’t getting pregnant — and I have a picture by my bed [of my parents] actually that they had sent to the adoption agency and my mom always says, ‘Doesn’t this look like a couple that’s just desperate for children?’ — and then the day they found out they’d been accepted to adopt, they found out they were pregnant with us.”
While Jenna has shifted her career goals more towards television news, Barbara is the co-founder and president of a public health-focused non-profit, Global Health Corps. She focuses on humanitarian work and trying to improve the lives of people in lesser developed countries. They both are passionate about helping others! Both sisters are legacy members of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, but not at the same college. Barbara attended Yale University and Jenna attended the University of Texas at Austin.
How Many Books Has Jenna Bush Hager Written?
Jenna has already written several books! Her first, Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, was released in September 2007 and is about her experiences working with UNICEF-sponsored charities in Latin America. Her next book, this time a children’s book titled Read All About It!, was published in April 2008 and was her first collaboration with her mother. In June 2010, Jenna and Laura’s second children’s book was released. Titled Our Great Big Backyard, it’s a love letter to nature and America’s National Parks that teaches kids how wonderful nature can be.
Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life was released in October 2017. Co-written with sister Barbara, it’s the first memoir Jenna has penned. The novel provides intimate details about the twins’ lives growing up in the Texas countryside and being thrown into the spotlight during their time at the White House. She released another book in September 2020 called Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss. It’s about the wisdom she learned from her beloved grandparents.
“I was always a writer,” Jenna said. “I wrote for my school newspaper, and I’ve been working with Southern Living for seven years, writing about travel and entertaining and the South and just columns based on my life.”
In April 2022, Jenna released another children’s book with Barbara called The Superpower Sisterhood. The book is a “celebration of friendship and sisterhood,” the perfect ode to their special bond as twins.
