Jenna Bush Hager’s daughter had a “dark” reaction to the Disney movie “Cinderella.”
The talk show host recalled the experience while talking about her daughters Mila, 12, and Poppy, 10, with guest host Andy Cohen on Monday’s episode of the Today show.
The conversation began with Cohen criticizing a popular princess movie released in 1950.
“It’s a 52-minute cat-and-mouse game,” Cohen said. “I’d like to see less of the weasel and the mouse and more of the wicked stepsisters and Cinderella.”
Bush Hager then joined in to explain the girls’ bizarre experiences with the film, in which Cinderella is orphaned and lives with a wicked stepmother and step sisters.
“When my kids were little, they watched so many movies like that that I thought I was going to die,” Bush Hager said.
The proud mother, 44, said her eldest daughter tried to share her concerns with one of her colleagues at NBC.
“Mila came to work here, and Donna, lovely Donna who works here, she came up to Donna and said, ‘If my mom dies, would you be my stepmom?’ It’s dark!” Bush Hager shared.
Jenna has two daughters and a 7-year-old son, Hal, with husband Henry Hagar. (She and Henry married in 2008.)
Last month, Jenna revealed that she and Henry wanted more children.
“I would have had 22 kids…not 22,” she joked. “I had three, so it felt like 21. I would have had one more. I would have rounded.”
When her co-star Justin Sylvester suggested that they might still expand their family, she replied:
“I feel like that ship has sailed,” she said.
Jenna also talked about coming to terms with only having three kids on the show in March.
“I am confident that three is the perfect number for our family, even though it is an imperfect number,” she said.
The former eldest daughter addressed the family dynamic shortly after rumors of divorce spread after she was seen without her wedding ring.
Jenna dismissed the gossip a month ago, telling viewers she wasn’t wearing her ring because she injured her finger.
“Henry and I are still very happily married,” she admitted.
