Jenna Bush Hager has admitted she finds Instagram “addictive” and is deleting the social media app from her phone to feel more like a “present mum” to her three young children.
During Thursday’s episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the 42-year-old revealed she planned to follow in the footsteps of her twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush, who recently deleted Instagram from her cell phone and didn’t miss it at all.
Jenna and her co-host, Hoda Kotb, were discussing wellness trends and the art of “going with the flow,” when the mother of three opened up about spending too much time on her phone, which she sometimes has a hard time managing.
“I have to say this is what I think distracts me, but probably others, from getting into a rhythm… I bet you can guess,” she explained to Hoda, 60, as they both said in unison, “Look down!”
Jenna continued: “Looking at my phone. Sometimes when I feel like something’s not right, if I’m honest with myself, it’s because I’ve been spending too much time[on it]…” to which Hoda replied: “I actually feel like I’ve been doing that lately.”
Jenna Bush Hager has admitted that she finds Instagram “addictive” and plans to delete the app from her cell phone.
Jenna pictured with her husband, Henry Hager, and their three children: Mila, 11; Poppy, nine, and Hal, five.
“What a numbing thing to do!” Jenna said, before adding: “So whenever I feel like I’m losing control, I take Instagram off my phone. My sister has been off Instagram for… she still uses it, but she took it off her phone.”
The former First Daughter then admitted, “This is what I have to do to get out of this… I have to have someone else change my password because it’s addictive,” before referring to her brother once again.
‘So she pulls it out and says, ‘I haven’t had it on my phone and I feel like a present mom, I feel like I’ve been looking up, walking around and meeting friends, things happening that make you happy.’
“And she’s like, ‘and I don’t miss anything, all the stuff he gave me actually made me feel less joy,’ so I’m taking it off today!” Jenna confirmed.
Hoda, a mother of two, revealed she’s also trying to “go with the flow” more, especially when heading home after a day at work.
“I walked home through Central Park, and as I walked, I took slow steps. Instead of walking to get somewhere, I just kept walking, ‘one step, one step, one step,'” he explained.
“I felt like I had arrived home in five seconds, it was the strangest thing. I tried to walk slower because I had read a book about how to walk slowly, so I tried it. I looked around and saw that it was a great walk to get home.”
Jenna replied, ‘The thing is, if you had been watching or even listening to a podcast or music, which is what we always do, but if you hadn’t been really present, you wouldn’t have been in the flow.’
Jenna revealed that her twin sister, Barbara, told her she felt “like a present mother” since she deleted the Instagram app from her phone.
Jenna admitted that when she feels like “something’s not right,” she knows she’s been spending too much time on her phone.
The TV presenter’s comments come just a couple of weeks after she took to Instagram to share her joy at becoming an aunt again after Barbara welcomed her second child.
“My sister had a baby and I fell head over heels for Edward Finn!” she wrote in the caption, which included a sweet photo of Jenna holding the newborn in her arms while bottle-feeding him.
Later photos show the sisters posing side by side with Edward, and a close-up of her face wrapped in a striped blanket.
Barbara already shares a daughter named Cora with husband Craig Coyne, while Jenna has three children with husband Henry Hager; Mila, 11, Poppy, nine, and son Hal, five.
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