Bush Hager and her co-host Hoda Kotb both noted that they passed on their parents' mentality with watching more mature movies down to their own children

Jenna Bush Hager told her "Today with Hoda & Jenna" co-host that NBC told her to stop using the Southern slang since it's not "for the whole country."

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,

"When you try to pretend you’re somebody else, it feels crazy," Bush Hager said The Today hosts are revealing the rules they follow on-air. On the Dec. 2 episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna, Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager shared how they had to change when they joined NBC.