Hoda Kotb Shares Emotional Update On 4-Year-Old Daughter's Health Scare
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The “Today” co-host took two weeks off last year to be by her daughter’s side.
Hoda Kotb is sharing new details about the health crisis that kept Hope, her young daughter, in intensive care for several days and, later, hospitalized for over a week last year.
The “Today” co-host told People in an interview published Wednesday that she and her family have been focused on “trying to make everything normal” as they settle into a long-term plan to maintain the 4-year-old girl’s health.
“We had a scary stretch,” Kotb explained. “Any parent who’s been through a scary thing with their child understands. It’s like you just can’t believe that your child’s sick. You can’t believe that there’s nothing you can do. You can’t believe that no matter what you do, you can’t will it away or protect her, or all the things that we’re supposed to be doing as parents. And it’s a position I’ve never found myself in.”
In February of last year, Kotb took two weeks off of “Today” as she tended to Hope during her illness. The journalist has never publicly disclosed her daughter’s diagnosis due to the child’s age, but has previously said that her condition required constant monitoring by medical professionals at first.
More than a year later, Kotb ― who is also mom to a 7-year-old daughter, Haley ― has had to take steps to keep her own concerns from overwhelming Hope.