{"id":794232,"date":"2026-05-13T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794232\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:33:14","slug":"jenna-bush-hager-shares-offensive-nickname-her-kids-call-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794232\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Bush Hager shares offensive nickname her kids call her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Bush Hager\u2019s kids have nicknamed her \u201cBiggie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cToday with Jenna &amp; Sheinelle,\u201d the news anchor said her three kids \u2014 Mila, 13, Poppy, 10, and Hal, 6 \u2014 \u201cbrought home a term\u201d that she wished \u201cthey\u2019d left at the old door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey call me Biggie,\u201d Hager told her co-host, Sheinelle Jones. \u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018OK, Biggie!\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Excuse me?\u2019 They\u2019re like, \u2018Whatever, Biggie!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"0316534781\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSisters-First-Jenna-Bush-Hager%2Fdp%2F0316534781%2F%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F05%2F13%2Fparents%2Fjenna-bush-hager-shares-offensive-nickname-her-kids-call-her%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">\u201cSisters First\u201d<\/a> author, who shares her children with longtime husband Henry Chase Hager, said she urged their oldest to stop using the moniker after they started calling their dad the name.<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Bush Hager (seen above on Wednesday\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show) said her three kids nicknamed her \u201cBiggie.\u201d TODAY with Jenna &amp; Sheinelle<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018OK, Biggie!\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Excuse me?\u2019 They\u2019re like, \u2018Whatever, Biggie!\u2019\u201d Hager told her co-host, Sheinelle Jones (seen above). TODAY with Jenna &amp; Sheinelle<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Mila, stop saying this. Hal\u2019s gonna go to school and his teacher\u2019s gonna be like, \u2018Now, Hal, please turn in your homework.\u2019 And he\u2019s gonna be like, \u2018No way, Biggie!\u2019\u201d Hager, 44, shared.<\/p>\n<p>Jones \u2014 who shares three kids with her <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/05\/23\/celebrity-news\/today-show-co-host-sheinelle-jones-husband-dead-at-45-after-cancer-battle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">late husband, Uche Ojeh<\/a> \u2014 was stunned by the term, saying, \u201cI\u2019ve never heard that. That hurts my feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hager revealed that the term \u201cBiggie\u201d stems from \u201cBig Back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has simplified it just to Biggie. Part of me at first found it to be \u2026 I like humor in words, so I was like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s creative,\u2019\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>The TV journalist (seen above) said \u201cBiggie\u201d stems from \u201cBig Back.\u201d TODAY with Jenna &amp; Sheinelle<\/p>\n<p>Hager (seen above with her family) shares kids Mila, 13, Poppy, 10, and Hal, 6, with husband Henry Chase Hager. Instagram\/jennabhager<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m like, \u2018Stop calling everybody Biggie. It\u2019s gonna spread,&#8217;\u201d Jenna added.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing where the term derived from, Jones, 48, said it made the nickname \u201ceven worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Jenna revealed on her talk show that her eldest daughter, Mila, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/25\/celebrity-news\/jenna-bush-hager-reveals-why-she-was-banned-from-her-daughters-volleyball-games\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">banned her from her volleyball games<\/a> after the TV host had one too many over-the-top moments on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got kicked out by my child,\u201d Hager said, before clarifying, \u201cWell, I didn\u2019t get kicked out, like, removed immediately. I got put into a free zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Jenna (seen above with her husband and kids) revealed her eldest daughter, Mila, banned her from her volleyball games. Instagram\/ Jenna Bush Hager<\/p>\n<p>The teenager banned the her mom (seen above at the New York Public Library in April) for having one too many over-the-top moments on the sidelines. via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe score was 6 to 7, and I go, \u2018Six seven!\u2019\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd Mila looked at me like this\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hager mimicked her daughter\u2019s icy glare, adding, \u201cAfterwards, I was frozen out. I went to one volleyball game this year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The TV journalist said she hopes to be \u201cunfrozen\u201d to attend her daughter\u2019s games next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenna Bush Hager\u2019s kids have nicknamed her \u201cBiggie.\u201d On Wednesday\u2019s episode of \u201cToday with Jenna &amp; Sheinelle,\u201d the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":794233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,9477,1857,11869,172,171,58941,9475,220252,41336,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-794232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-moms","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-jenna-bush-hager","tag-parents","tag-sheinelle-jones","tag-today-show","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}