Tragic Details About Hoda Kotb

Hoda Kotb was dealt another blow after her breast cancer diagnosis. In People's "Me Becoming Mom" podcast, the TV host shared that she learned that the cancer treatments changed her life: She would never be able to conceive. The news would shock Kotb and she tried to cope with it for years by suppressing her yearning to have kids. "I was actually with a girlfriend and we were walking down a street and I remember it like it was yesterday," she recalled. "Because I had never shared it with anyone that I had wanted — I still yearned for [children] because it seemed like wanting to go to the moon, it's not happening, so don't even bring it up," she said. 

It seems as if her friend assumed that neither she nor her boyfriend at the time, Joel Schiffman, wanted kids. Suddenly, Kotb had an "epiphany" and decided to share her real feelings with her friend. "I looked at her and I said, 'Well, I do.' I didn't say did, I said I do." She was finally able to vocalize her desires, saying, "I was like, 'Oh my God, I do want to have children, right now. Here in my current state.'" Luckily, Schiffman agreed to adopt a child with her. Today, the couple co-parent two daughters together, Haley Joy and Hope Catherine, per People.

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