Jenna Bush Hager Shares The One Activity She Regrets Not Trying In High School

"I was too nervous to do things like that."

Jenna Bush Hager has said that the freedom to make mistakes as a teen was the “absolute best blessing” her parents gave her. While she appreciates the fact that George and Laura Bush let her make her own choices, she does have one big regret from her high school days. “The one regret I have is that I didn’t act," she told her Today co-host Hoda Kotb on the April 10 episode of the show. "I was too nervous to do things like that," Bush Hager added. "To go on stage." Yes, as first noted by People, the woman who is on your television set for hours every week, was “too nervous” to try acting as a teen.

Just because she was too shy to get on stage doesn’t mean that Bush Hager was a shrinking violet or a homebody while attending high school in Texas. In fact, she kept herself very busy with activities. "I ran track, poorly. I was on the newspaper. I was on the student council," she recalled, which is unsurprising for the daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H. W. Bush. She also ran cross country and played field hockey. "I loved the idea of being on a team and cheering everybody on," she explained. "I really, really loved it."

"So you were busy but you didn’t do acting, even though you wanted to," Kotb noted of Bush Hager’s impressive high school resume. "No, but I wish I had," Bush Hager said with what sounded like a hint of regret.

Now as the mother of three kids with husband Henry Hager, Bush Hager hopes to teach her children to follow their dreams into their chosen careers, and it sounds like her youngest daughter, eight-year-old Poppy, shares her mother’s love of the theater. "Mila's like 'I'm going to write a story, I'm going to be an author. I'm going to be a lawyer,'" Bush Hager said of her eldest daughter.  "Poppy's like, 'I'm going to be an actor.'" Undoubtedly her mother will do her best to make sure nerves don’t get in the way of that dream.

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