Jenna Bush Hager is being benched by her own children.
The “Today with Jenna and Sheinelle” co-host admitted Friday that her 13-year-old daughter Mila was effectively banned from a volleyball game after she overacted on the sideline.
“I was kicked out by a kid,” Hager said, clarifying, “Well, I wasn’t kicked out right away. I was put in a free zone.”
Bush, 44, said her enthusiasm crossed the line with her eldest daughter, Mila, during a recent game.
“The score was 6-7, so I thought, ‘Six-seven!'” she recalled. “And Mira was looking at me like this…”
Mimicking her daughter’s icy gaze, Hager added, “I froze up after that. I went to one volleyball game this year.”
She hopes to make a low-profile comeback next season.
“I think the freeze will thaw next year,” she said. “I’m not trying to be the center of attention.”
Mira is not the only one causing problems. Hager said her youngest son, 6-year-old Hal, also has plenty of energy on game day.
“Now on the flag football field, Hal is all like, ‘Don’t cheer. It’s too loud, Mom,'” she said.
Hager, who is raising Mila, 10-year-old Poppy, and Hal with husband Henry Hager, insists the side hustle mentality came naturally.
“My father worked in baseball, so I went to about 70 games a year,” she said.
“I was cheering. I loved cheering. I learned how to score. I knew how to do everything, so I’m kind of an athletic kid.”
Her father, former President George W. Bush, was part of the Texas Rangers’ ownership group from 1989 to 1998 before joining the White House in 2001, and helped shape her early love of the game.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, Hager had another family-related complaint – this time about her resemblance to her father.
In a segment featuring interviews with Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, co-host Sheinelle Jones pointed out similarities between Hager and the former president.
“I know everyone says that, but it’s outrageous,” Jones said.
Hager didn’t buy the comparison at all.
“I appreciate it,” she replied, then added, “Sometimes that’s not a compliment.”
“I think my dad is handsome, but when people say that, I think, ‘Do I look like a man?'” Hager added as the NBC production team laughed off-camera.
