5 Things You Didn't Know About Jenna Bush Hager: Her Quirky Job to Proposing to Her Husband

“As a little kid, I dreamed of being a teacher, like it was something I knew I was going to do,” Hager, 42, said. “So, [when] the Today show asked if I would want to come work here, I was like, ‘No way. Teaching was my plan. It’s what I’ve always wanted to do. No.’ And then, obviously, I love my job here, and I do feel like working on television allows a different type of teaching.”

While living at the White House during her father George W. Bush’s presidency, Hager claimed she and her sister, Barbara Bush, heard “1920s piano music” coming from their bedroom’s fireplace. The ghosts were “friendly” and returned the following week! “We heard the same thing, but opera.”

“We’d only been dating three months,” Hager recalled. “He told me he loved me, and I’m like, ‘Me too! Let’s get married!’ ” Although he didn’t take her up on her offer at the time, Henry Hager proposed in 2007 and the couple wed in 2008.

“My typical day starts around 5 a.m. I work out, [then] I start meetings, and the show is from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. In the afternoons, I’m either on shoots or working on our Read With Jenna book club. I end my days with my kids," she revealed.

After her daughter Mila Hager revealed on camera that her mom once “peed her pants” during a fit of laughter at home, the news anchor said, “[My kids are] allowed to come and watch [the show]…but they’re nowhere close to microphones.”