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Hoda Kotb Announces She Is Leaving Today Show After 17 Years to Focus on Her Kids: 'Right Decision but Painful'
Hoda Kotb announced on Thursday, Sept. 26, that she is leaving her anchor role at 'Today' to focus on her family including daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 4
Explaining her reasoning, Kotb added in part, "My broadcast career has been beyond meaningful, a new decade of my life lies ahead, and now my daughters and my mom need and deserve a bigger slice of my time pie. "I want my kids to feel grass on their feet, and play in the yard, and ride bikes down the street, and run up and down the stairs," she told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview about the move. Months in, “ things have stabilized,” Kotb told PEOPLE, adding that she hired extra help to balance the new medical demands with her highly unusual and rigid work schedule.
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