Hoda Kotb was initially nervous to show off her post-mastectomy body after battling cancer.

“Months and months after my surgery, but still no one has seen my breast yet,” Kotb, 61, wrote in her new Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life memoir, detailing an interaction with her friend’s then-80-year-old aunt, Harriet. “I told her I was nervous. Harriet immediately took my hand and said, ‘Come with me.’ She led me into a bathroom and closed the door behind us.”

She continued, “I looked at her like she was crazy. I thought, ‘Does she really think I’m going to show her my boob? No way, not happening.’ Well, before I knew it, she’d lifted up her shirt and showed me her knockers!”

Kotb revealed that Harriet had also undergone a mastectomy in a period before “doctors did

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