Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb on NBC’s TODAY
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THEY (TRY TO) STAY HEALTHY
As much as Guthrie once thrived on running,
she admits that she’s not always religious
about it anymore. “I definitely feel like exercise
is, for me, always the first thing to go; it’s the
first thing to drop,” she admits. “I’m not one
of those people that loves to exercise, or even
feels like, ‘Oh, I have to exercise, or I don’t feel
good.’ I want to do it. I know I should do it. So,
I do try to do it. But for example, I don’t think
I’ve done any actual real exercise in weeks.”
She says that her fitness level varies based on
how busy things are with work and her kids.
Sound familiar?
Besides running, she says there have been
times that she’s been passionate about
dance cardio and aerobics, too. “But I’m
like anybody, sometimes I’m into it, and
sometimes I’m not,” she discloses.
Kotb agrees. She has it in her calendar to run
every day at 4 pm with her daughters and
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their stroller, but admits that she’s only done
it once. “I feel like, sometimes you have to
realize you can’t be everything for everybody,
and so you just do the best you can,” she says.
But if there’s anyone for whom she wants to
be everything, it’s for the kids, who are both
under age three.
She says that she used to work out for herself,
to feel good but now she says it’s because she
wants to be there for her girls. “I’m not doing
it just so ‘Oh, can I fit into my stupid size 10
dress?’ which is getting harder. I want to do it
so that 10 years from now, I am on the floor
still active with those kids.”
She doesn’t take for granted the fact that
she was able to become a mom later in life.
She compares the delight she feels with her
little family to when Bonnie Raitt won her
first Grammy and declared that it took her
40 years to become an overnight sensation:
“I feel like Bonnie Raitt times 10 — like how
Kotb’s new book,
I Really Needed This Today
someone would feel when you wait so long
for something, and then you can’t believe you
have it. It’s not lost on me for one minute that
I get the privilege of raising two children. I’m
not going to waste or squander my time. It’s
an amazing thing I get to do.”