Jenna Bush Hager Admits She Sometimes Gets ‘the Ick’ with Husband Henry Hager

Jenna Bush Hager is proving that even longtime couples are not immune from “the ick.” 

Despite 16 years of marriage to her husband, Henry Hager, Jenna admitted on Today with Hoda & Jenna that she isn’t head over heels for everything he does.

The confession came when Jenna, 43, and Hoda Kotb were talking with actress Justine Lupe — who stars in the hit Netflix series Nobody Wants This — about a part of the show in which Kristen Bell’s character Joanne gets “the ick” (or suddenly turned off) from her rabbi boyfriend Noah, played by Adam Brody, based on his behavior and clothes in one scene.

“Thankfully, I don’t know if I’ve ever had ‘the ick’ with someone I’m in love with,” Lupe, 35, told the co-hosts. “Because then you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, this is intimacy. This is what we’re doing.’ ”

However, Jenna — who shares kids Mila, 11; Poppy, 9; and Hal, 5; with Henry — questioned that take, saying, “Spoiler alert — because I’ve been with my husband for 20 years — you do get it. But there’s so many more un-icks than icks.”

While Jenna tends to be an open book when it comes to her personal life, Kotb, 60, stepped in to stop her from answering when Lupe asked her to name one of Henry’s “icks.” 

“No, no, don’t. Don’t!” Kotb told her co-host. “Cause you know what happens, Justine? It gets in Page Six, and she gets in trouble. I’m protecting her from herself.”

Jenna is no stranger to talking about Henry on her morning talk show. In October she got candid about Henry’s unexpected proposal while she was “cranky” on a hike. 

“We hiked Cadillac Mountain, which is in Acadia in Maine, national park, which is so pretty,” she shared at the time. “And he proposed to me at the top. Now listen, I wasn’t predicting it.”

“Grumpy, a little grumpy,” she recalled feeling. “And he said, ‘Let’s stop for a Luna bar, the sun is about to come up let’s watch it together.’ And I said, ‘No, I’m too cold to stop.’ I said, ‘Let’s please keep going.’ He said, ‘Can we please stop for a Luna bar?’ I said, ‘No we can’t!’ And then finally he said, ‘We’re stopping for a Luna bar,’ and I was like, ‘Ugh.’ And then he proposed.”

Back in May, Jenna also said she regretted not dating more before marrying Henry in her mid-20s. 

“I dated in college, I dated in high school. But I didn’t date enough, which is what I realized,” she said on Today with Hoda & Jenna at the time. “I met the right person early and it’s great and we’ve built a really incredible life and I’m proud of it. But also, you should have fun and date while you can.”