They were like], ‘Hey, y’all,’ isn’t for the whole country.’ And I was like, ‘Well, but it’s who I am,’” Jenna Bush Hager said.

Despite being unapologetically themselves on the Today show, Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb faced some struggles to be able to do so. “If you don’t fit, they want you to wear something a certain way,

Today show co-host Jenna Bush Hager is peeling back the curtain about her experience with the morning show. According to Bush Hager, the network was fairly strict when it came to her saying "y'all." During the December 2 installment of Today With Hoda & Jenna,

Today with Hoda & Jenna, Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager shared how they had to change when they joined NBC. Bush Hager, who started as a correspondent in 2009, claimed there was one phrase the network banned her from using at the time.