Hoda Kotb Sends Selena Gomez Supportive Message Amid Fertility Journey

Hoda Kotb is praising Selena Gomez for her candidness.

After the Rare Beauty founder revealed she cannot carry children due to her complex medical history, the Today show anchor—who faced her own fertility struggles before becoming a mom—responded with a heartfelt show of support.

“I think it was something she always dreamt that would happen,” Kotb told co-host Jenna Bush Hager during the Sept. 10 episode of Today. “You know how you kind of write your story in your head? ‘I’ll get married here or there or at this age, and then I’ll have kids,’ and you can kind of imagine it. And I think that was probably the toughest part.”

Referring to Gomez saying she intends to explore alternative routes to motherhood, Kotb—who adopted daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman—added, “Families come in all shapes and sizes, and they are your kids 100 thousand percent.”