They were like], ‘Hey, y’all,’ isn’t for the whole country.’ And I was like, ‘Well, but it’s who I am,’” Jenna Bush Hager said.

Jenna Bush Hager claims she was told not to say "Hey, y'all" when she joined NBC in 2009 on the Dec. 2 episode of 'Today.' Co-host Hoda Kotb added that she also felt like she had to "change" for the network and said it took "a long time" to be herself on air again.

Despite being unapologetically themselves on the Today show, Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb faced some struggles to be able to do so. “If you don’t fit, they want you to wear something a certain way,

Today show co-host Jenna Bush Hager is peeling back the curtain about her experience with the morning show. According to Bush Hager, the network was fairly strict when it came to her saying "y'all." During the December 2 installment of Today With Hoda & Jenna,