

"In these big moments.and in small moments. "We've had each other," Jenna said on the Today show this morning. We were too young and immature to consider how much my mother had wanted and wished for siblings of her own, to see how the bond between Barbara and me might have made her feel like an outsider." Jenna and her mother are now reportedly very close.īut through it all, Jenna and Barbara were in it together-they are the only twins in White House history. I didn’t always understand my mom more precisely, I didn’t think she got me. "When I was little, I was a daddy’s girl. "My mother was a librarian and an only child-a combination that sometimes made it hard to relate to her point of view," she writes. Jenna opens up about the distance she felt from her mother as a child.

I knew the signs were not personal, but it still felt like a stab each time I saw one." Their dad has a best seller with his book of paintings, and now twins Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush are writing a joint memoir, Grand Central Publishing announced Wednesday. She is the co-author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life with her twin sister, and the picture book. The only way to avoid them was to stare at the ground. I couldn’t look out my window without seeing one. "The students living in the dorm across from mine had Al Gore signs in all their windows. "Emotionally, I was unprepared," she writes. The 2000 election and subsequent recount was also difficult for Barbara at Yale.
