With just a few days left on the Today Show, Hoda Kotb is going out with a bang and a surprise here and there. She’s spending her final week making a lasting impression on viewers and guests. Christina Wong and Dean Kahn tried adopting a baby for years, but things didn’t go as planned. Hoda sat down with the couple and shared her own adoption story.
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She said, “I have to say, I remember so vividly when I got the call. It was so magical and amazing when you get a phone call. I remember mine like it was yesterday. The phone rang, and I was in my office, and I answered the phone,” she said.
Hoda Kotb Gave The Couple A Huge Surprise
The Today host continued to share her story with Christina and Dean.
“And they said, ‘Hoda.’ I said, ‘Yes?’ And she said, ‘It’s a girl.’ And I go, ‘Oh my God, it’s a girl.’ That’s what I thought. And I just want to have the privilege of telling both of you in this moment that it’s a girl. You guys have been matched with a baby,” she announced.
“Oh my God,” Dean said.
“I want to meet her and I want to love her,” Christina added.
The couple returned to Today on January 7 to introduce Hoda to their baby girl, Jacqueline.
Hoda asked how parenthood was going, and Christina said, “A whirlwind.”
Dean added, “It’s been amazing. I mean, she’s been everything we hoped for and more. It’s just so surreal, like you think perfect’s not possible and then this happens.”
The family called Hoda Kotb’s surprise a “dream come true.”
“I really wanted to soak it in, but it was overwhelming in every good way possible,” Christina said of her parenting journey.
Hoda is certainly making the best of her last minutes on Today, and we love it all.
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