Jenna Bush Hager discusses body image after revealing her grandmother’s comments on her weight

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. I was laying next to my sister and my grandmother, who I adored but had kind of a biting personality, said something like, ‘Oh Jenna, looking chubby.’” Bush Hager recalled how her grandmother’s comment about her body made her “feel like I wanted to hide in it.” However, the mother of three soon came to understand where her grandmother’s comments about her body were coming from, when she revealed that her own mother used to make similar remarks. open image in gallery Jenna Bush Hager and her sister, Barbara, walk into Easter Sunday service with former US President George Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush The two co-hosts went on to discuss how seemingly innocuous comments about a person’s body can have a lasting negative impact on their self-perception. However, Kotb made sure to give Bush Hager her props for raising her three children – Mila, nine, Poppy, seven, and Henry, three – with “a good body image”. open image in gallery Former First Lady Barbara Bush, Barbara and Jenna Bush, and Jenna Welch, mother of Laura Bush attend the first night session of the Republican National Convention on 31 July, 2000 “Going through my teenage years of hating myself and all that stupid s**t, a lot of it came from my anger toward my body, and how mad I was at how much pain it’s caused me, and how much I’ve lost because of things that happened to it,” Eilish admitted, referencing a growth plate injury in her hip at 13 that forced her to give up her dreams of dancing.