On the Monday episode of Right now with Hoda and Jenna, the host revealed that she might relate with actor Timothée Chalamet, who lately mentioned he misplaced gigs for not having “the correct physique” for motion roles in movies like Divergent and The Maze Runner.

After discussing his quotes with cohost Jenna Bush Hager, Kotb, 60, opened up about her private expertise with criticism about her physique.

“I nonetheless bear in mind I had simply began working at a small market, and I performed basketball in highschool, so I all the time assumed I used to be in form although actually after faculty and stuff, I wasn’t,” she mentioned.

“I nonetheless bear in mind my boss going to me, ‘Hey, Hoda … I acquired an thought, possibly you would possibly wanna attempt to get on the treadmill,’” she claimed.

Kotb mentioned she had a special notion of herself “that isn’t the notion of the world” — with Bush Hager chiming in, “reverse physique dysmorphia” — earlier than revealing she reacted by saying, “What are you speaking about?”

“For those who do not match, they need you put on one thing a sure means, lower your hair a sure means, communicate a sure means,” she continued, as Bush Hager mentioned she was informed she could not say, “Y’all” after getting an on-camera gig as a result of it “is not for the entire nation.”

“I feel you already know whenever you’re pretending deep down,” added Hoda, “and it doesn’t matter what it’s, you begin dropping who you might be.”

Hager beforehand opened up about her expertise rising up because the daughter of former President George W. Bush — and claimed she was informed she was “chubby” by her grandmother, former First Woman, Barbara Bush.

“I really feel like even generally now once I really feel nice—I’ve three youngsters, three C-sections; I really feel actually in my physique, and I consider it as a fantastic factor—I will stroll in a pool and have a second,” she admitted in 2023.

Though Kotb did not reveal the id of the boss that physique shamed her, she beforehand labored at a CBS native station in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1986. She additionally labored for a 12 months at an ABC native station in Moline, Illinois — and, from 1992 to 1998, she was a information anchor at a CBS station in New Orleans.

She later joined Right now in September 2007.