I Still Have Pinch Me Moments

Beloved Today coanchor Savannah Guthrie reflects on her career, motherhood and why she has no plans to leave the famed morning show anytime soon: "I'm pretty darn happy right now"

- CHRISTINA GARIBALDI & JAIME HARKIN

Back in 2008, a young Savannah Guthrie was working as a White House correspondent for NBC when Today sent her to Crawford, Texas, to cover Jenna Bush Hager's wedding to her now-husband, Henry.

"I was outside with fake hay bales," Guthrie recalls with a giggle, confessing that she had very little intel on the couple or the event. "[I was] reporting about Jenna and Henry with no information. We've watched it back together and laughed," she adds. "Jenna's like, 'Oh, my gosh, you didn't know anything!"

The Arizona native, 53, never imagined that some 16 years later, she'd be working with Hager - whom she calls "one of her closest friends" - or that she'd be a coanchor on TV's most popular morning show.

"I still have 'pinch me' moments," says the mom of two (she shares daughter Vale, 10, and son Charley, 8, with her husband of nearly 11 years, consultant Michael Feldman). “Most days, when I walk in and see the plaza all lit up, I can’t believe it’s me. I grew up watching these shows; Katie Couric was my idol. I was just a kid from Tucson with no ins or connections. I know how improbable and miraculous it is that I’m here.” The busy journalist took some time out of her hectic schedule to talk to Us about her new children’s book, Mostly What God Does is Love You (a follow-up to her bestselling 2024 collection of essays, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere), the recent departure of her longtime coanchor Hoda Kotb and why she’ll never write a memoir.

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