“Don’t Have a Third Child”—Jenna Bush Hager’s Offh...

“Don’t Have a Third Child”—Jenna Bush Hager’s Offhand Remark on Live TV Leaves Reese Witherspoon Visibly Shaken and Viewers Sensing an Old Wound What began as charming banter on live television took a sudden turn when Jenna Bush Hager casually referenced a private warning from Reese Witherspoon—a moment tied to Reese’s past with her ex-husband. The brief tension in Reese’s smile and the silence that followed left audiences wondering: What secret pain did Jenna accidentally reveal, and how did Reese truly feel behind the spotlight?

Witherspoon herself has three kids and urged Bush Hager not to have a third of her own

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!’ ”

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?”

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.”