Hoda Kotb

Barbara and Jenna's grandmother actually encouraged Barbara to freeze her eggs.

“Ain’t no party like a New Orleans party!”

Hoda, who is the proud mom of two daughters, shared an insightful takeaway from the experience on a recent episode of "The Drew Barrymore Show."

“It’s so funny because the stories I tell now as an adult, are the stories of how I endured or what I did to cope," she said.

“It's the little things," Jenna said of how someone can show their partner that they appreciate them.

“I remember sitting in front of the bus and listening to people make fun of me and just willing the bus to get to school,” she recalled.

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“I wasn’t going to say anything about it and I wanted to forget about it, but someone encouraged me to say something,” the TODAY host revealed.

The award-winning “Dateline” correspondent told Hoda Kotb that Perry and his mother were “closer” than they had been in decades before Perry’s death at 54.

"I think it’s been helpful to Hope, especially in this kind of period of her life.”