Jenna Bush Hager.Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
WhileJenna Bush Hageris happily married to husbandHenry Hager, their relationship didn’t come without a few bumps along the way — in one case quite literally, thanks to a bike ride with her dad, former PresidentGeorge W. Bush.
During aTodaysegment on Tuesday aboutMark Wahlberg’s jointworkouts with his own daughter’s boyfriend, 40-year-old Jenna reminisced about a time Henry — then her boyfriend — went riding with her father, anavid biker.
Asked if her parents embraced her boyfriends when she was growing up, Jenna told her co-host,Hoda Kotb: “Yes, even the ones who weren’t great.”
“One time, this is terrible, but Henry and my dad went biking, when they first — like, this sort of bonding moment — they went mountain biking. And Henry had a Schwinn Twinsky, and dad had a real mountain bike,” Jenna said.
Asked if Henry managed to keep up, Jenna was quick to admit that he did not.
She continued: “So Henry’s humiliated, trying to fix his chain that broke on his Schwinn Twin. He starts going down the hill and the Secret Service open the door on Henry and Henry flies in the air and lands. So my dad calls and goes, ‘Hey, J, just want to tell ya, Henry did an okay job. He did get doored, but he’s okay. He’s got some scratches, he might have hurt his arm, but he’s okay.’ "
“He got doored?” Kotb asked.
“He got doored,” Jenna responded. “And those doors are bulletproof! They’re bulletproof!”
Afterward, Jenna said Henry confided: “I think your dad was trying to kill me.”
When Kotb offered up that perhaps the elder Bush was “testing” Henry, Jenna responded: “I think he was,” adding that Henry “hung in there.”
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He and Jenna went on to marry in 2008 and share three kids: daughters Mila, 8, and Poppy, 6, and son Hal, 2.
“So grateful,” Jenna captioned a smiling picture of their family of five.
source: people.com
