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Jenna Bush Hager’s Daughters Fear Loss After Cinderella

11/26/2025

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On the Today show, Jenna Bush Hager said her daughters Mila and Poppy were unsettled by Disney's Cinderella and feared for their mother's mortality.
The concern stemmed from the film's themes of loss and abandonment that worried the children.
Mila asked an NBC colleague, "When my mom dies, will you be my stepmother?"
Hager was co-hosting with Andy Cohen, who criticized the film's focus on "cat and mouse" antics.

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On the Today show, Jenna Bush Hager said her daughters Mila and Poppy were unsettled by Disney's Cinderella and feared for their mother's mortality.
The concern stemmed from the film's themes of loss and abandonment that worried the children.
Mila asked an NBC colleague, "When my mom dies, will you be my stepmother?"
Hager was co-hosting with Andy Cohen, who criticized the film's focus on "cat and mouse" antics.