Reese Witherspoon Reflects on Telling Jenna Bush Hager Not to Have a Third Kid: 'Why Didn't You Listen to Me?' Rachel McRadyOctober 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM 0 From Left: Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon on 'Today with Jenna & Friends' Jenna Bush Hager recalled how Reese Witherspoon warned her not ...
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Rachel McRadyOctober 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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From Left: Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon on 'Today with Jenna & Friends' -
Jenna Bush Hager recalled how Reese Witherspoon warned her not to have a third child
Both stars now have three kids and discussed Witherspoon advising Bush Hager against the decision when she already had a third kid
Witherspoon's concern surrounded the idea of having three teenagers at once
Reese Witherspoon can't really fault Jenna Bush Hager for not following her parenting advice because she didn't follow it either.
Witherspoon, 49, is mom to three kids — Ava, 26, Deacon, 21, and Tennessee, 13 — but when Bush Hager, 43, interviewed her years ago, she was against the idea of the TV personality having a third child.
"You may not remember this, but I once interviewed you and I told you I was maybe going to have a third baby," Bush Hager reminded Witherspoon on Today with Jenna & Friends on Tuesday, Oct. 14. "And you were like, 'You can't do that.' And I'm like, 'You have three children!' "
Reese Witherspoon on 'Today with Jenna & Friends' on Oct. 14, 2025
The Morning Show star said that her first reaction to Bush Hager's desire to have a third kid was "Why?"
Bush Hager said that Witherspoon warned her that she'd one day have "three teenagers" if she tried for a third kid.
"I said, 'One day there will be three teenagers.' Oh my God, that's such good advice, why didn't you listen to me?!" Witherspoon asked Bush Hager, who laughed and replied, "I don't know. But why didn't you listen to yourself?"
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Reese Witherspoon (right) with kids Ava, Tennessee, and Deacon
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Witherspoon quipped that her decision to have three kids was "clearly insanity." She joked, "I've been really lucky. I feel so blessed and tired, so, so, so, so tired."
The Oscar winner shares Ava and Deacon with her ex Ryan Phillippe and son Tennessee with her ex Jim Toth.
As for how she prepares her son Tennessee to be a teenager navigating the world of social media, Witherspoon said it's a collaborative effort. "You have to have a strategy," she said. "You have to work with your coparenting partners and your extended family and your schools to make sure we're doing what's right for their mental health."
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Jenna Bush Hager and husband Henry Hager (right) with kids Mila, Poppy and Hal
As for Bush Hager, she and husband Henry Hager share three kids — daughters Mila, 12, Poppy, 10, and son Hal, 6.
She's previously opened up about three being the "perfect" number of kids for their household. "I'm pretty sure I've come to terms that three, even though it's an imperfect number, is the perfect number for our house," she told Savannah Guthrie on the show in March.
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