“I’m putting all my time and effort into what I hope will make people feel better, which was my favorite part of the show anyway,” Hoda explained. “How can we lift people up? How can we lighten the load? What can we do?”
These days, all it takes is being home with daughters Haley, 8, and Hope, 6, in order to lift Hoda up. After all, the mom—who recently shared Hope’s diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes—is now able to witness so much more of her daughters’ daily routine.
“It’s really cool to just realize that there’s so much more to life,” she explained to People in an interview published May 28. “I wasn’t able to bear witness to my kids’ daily lives because of what I was doing. I got to see Haley sing ‘What a Wonderful World’ at 9:15 a.m.—I would have missed that.”
