Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb on Motherhood After Miscarriage and Cancer
21.03.2022 - 19:25
/ etonline.com
Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie know what it's like to run a broadcast together. And as parents, they know the obstacles in the road to motherhood. As the cover stars of 's April issue, out Tuesday, the morning news duo opened up about the challenges they overcame in growing their families. For Kotb, fighting breast cancer spurred a challenge with fertility. «I remember that my oncologist called and we were talking about freezing my eggs.
She basically said that given my age and [my breast cancer treatment], it was pretty close to a dead end,» she recalled to the magazine. «I was in my room and I just sobbed. I thought, Well, that’s that, isn’t it? Like, you almost blame yourself. Why didn’t I do this? Why didn’t I do that?»To cope, «I just pushed it away,» Kotb continued, «because the reality seemed impossible to bear.
How do you survive knowing you can’t have what you desire and what you feel like you actually physically need?»However, that road hadn't come to an end for Kotb. The journalist, who was dating now-ex Joel Schiffman at the time, ultimately adopted two daughters, Haley, 5, and Hope, 2 — with some inspiration from fellow mom . A post shared by Hoda Kotb (@hodakotb)«I don’t think I would’ve adopted if it hadn’t been for Joel. Having a stable relationship in that moment was really important,» she explained.
«Once that fell into place, it didn’t seem as scary to me. I also read about Sandra Bullock and the children she adopted. I’d always felt a weird connection to her, though I only knew her from the show.
But she was my age, and I just thought, Wow, she’s really cool. I called her, and we talked. She said adopting was the most important thing she’d ever done.