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Hoda Kotb is a new mom! The co-host of the fourth hour of Today announced Monday morning she adopted a sweet baby girl named Haley Joy Kotb.
"She's a Valentine's baby so she's a little nugget," Kotb said on a call to her Today show colleagues. "She is the love of my life!"
Her co-hosts shared their congratulations on Twitter.
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Kotb, 52, often talks about her close relationship with her two nieces, Hannah and Ella, on the morning show. And she's been open about her longtime desire to become a mom, telling People in January: "I feel that I belong somehow with kids, and I don't know how that will unfold in life, but I'm hopeful that somehow I can find the right lane there."
Kotb was divorced in 2007 and last year moved in with her boyfriend since 2013, Joel Schiffman.
There's a bit of a baby boom happening on the NBC morning show. December 9, anchor Savannah Guthrie had her second baby, Charley. And December 17, host Dylan Dreyer welcomed baby boy Calvin.
Congrats to the new moms!
Kate Storey is the author of White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port and the senior features editor at Rolling Stone. She was previously a staff writer at Esquire, where she covered culture and politics, and has written long-form profiles and narrative features for Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Town & Country, and other publications.
