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Hoda Kotb is celebrating this holiday season in the suburbs — starting with Thanksgiving.
“Happy thanksgiving from our family to yours xo,” Kotb, 60, wrote via Instagram on Friday, November 29, alongside a carousel of family photos from Thanksgiving dinner, which was spent in the former Today host’s new home in New York’s Westchester County after moving from Manhattan.
The photos featured a sweet snap of everyone smiling around a dinner table full of food, and included Kotb’s two daughters — Hope, 5, and Haley, 7 — as well as her mother Sameha, sister Hala, brother Adel and sister-in-law Colleen, and two nieces Hannah and Ella. Another photo showed her daughters and nieces sitting together in a red sleigh, as well as another snap of the family in front of a giant tree in New York City.
Kotb has been embracing the suburban lifestyle after moving herself and her daughters out of New York City earlier this year. Kotb also announced in September that she would be leaving the Today show in January 2025 after nearly 30 years with NBC.
“I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60, and to try something new. This is the right time for me to move on,” Kotb said at the time. She cited her kids as a major factor in her decision to leave.
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“I had my kiddos late in life, and I was thinking they deserve a bigger piece of my time, the pie that I have. I feel like we only have a finite amount of time,” she continued. “And so, with all that being said, this is the hardest thing in the world.”
However, Kotb has no regrets since trading in city life for the calmness of the suburbs.
“Everything changed like that. I have a whole new town and a whole new school and all the new things,” Kotb said of her and her daughters’ move on the September 4 episode of Today With Hoda & Jenna. “We went for our first day of school, I carried a coffee and I had sneakers [on], and I walked my kids to school like normal people. It was awesome.”
Hoda Kotb has often gushed about how her loved ones have defined her life — especially her daughters, Haley and Hope. The Today anchor became a mother when she adopted her little ones in 2017 and 2019, respectively, with her then-partner, Joel Schiffman. The former couple got engaged after six years of dating in 2019 […]
Before enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with her family, Kotb was in NYC on Thursday, November 28, for live coverage of the 98th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which marks the host’s final parade as an NBC host before leaving Today.
Kotb will be succeeded by Craig Melvin as Savannah Guthrie’s Today coanchor, while her show with Jenna Bush-Hager will become Today With Jenna & Friends, with a rotating cast of guest hosts until a suitable replacement for Kotb is found.