Hoda Kotb is marking a major family milestone.

Indeed, the former Today anchor recently shared how she tol d her and ex-fiancé J oel Schiffman ’s daughters Haley , 8, and Hope , 6, whom the former couple welcomed in 2017 and 2019, respectively, that they were adopted.

“ For my kids, they were asking me, I was telling them about adoption, and I thought, ‘How do you tell that story to your kids?’” Hoda explained during a Sept. 23 appearance on Today . “I said at first, ‘You weren’t born in my tummy, you were born in my heart,’ and they were like, ‘Oh, OK.’”

However, now that they are getting older, Hoda wanted to give her daughters more insight into their births.

“I thought, 'I have to tell them every child comes from a tummy,’” she recalled. “So

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