“Today” show co-host Jenna Bush Hager and her sister, Barbara Bush, appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” Monday to debate their upcoming book “Love Comes First” — and their past as former first daughters.
Throughout the segment, host Clarkson, 41, showed the sisters a photograph of themselves taken during their father former President George W. Bush’s term in office. Within the snapshot, they wore matching blue lace dresses, to which Bush Hager, 41, remarked: “We were chubby.”
“You weren’t,” Clarkson replied.
Bush Hager then turned to her sister and asked if she thought she was chubby.
“I don’t think what chubby is,” the “Since U Been Gone” singer chimed in. “You possibly can’t ask any person that! She’s not gonna be like, ‘You were a chub club.’”
Bush Hager then clarified that she was speaking about a particular stage in her life.
“In my life was I chubby,” Bush Hager said, before asking Barbara if she agreed.
“There was a stage,” Barbara confirmed, to which Clarkson claimed that she also had “many stages.”
“I had a stage,” the musician stated. “I’ve had many stages.”
“I really like losing weight, but here’s the thing …,” the “Stronger” singer continued. “Jeans are so hard when you’ve a butt and a smaller waist.”
The singer, who lost weight in 2018, revealed she all the time felt “larger” than other girls — even when competing on “American Idol” in 2002.
“Even on ‘American Idol’ I used to be really thin, but I used to be larger than the opposite girls on the show, so people would say things to me,” Clarkson previously told People. “But luckily I’m super confident, so I’ve never had an issue with shutting people down and saying, ‘Yeah, , that’s just what I’m rocking. It’s fantastic.’”
In 2017, the “Due to You” songstress told Attitude magazine that she “desired to kill myself” because she was so miserable maintaining a slim figure.
“Once I was really skinny, I desired to kill myself. I used to be miserable, like inside and out, for 4 years of my life. But nobody cared, because aesthetically you make sense,” the singer told the outlet. “It was a really dark time for me. I assumed the one way out was quitting.”
She added: “I like wrecked my knees and my feet because all I’d do is put in headphones and run. I used to be on the gym on a regular basis.”
In accordance with the singer, she was surrounded by a ton of negative individuals who didn’t assist in her ongoing struggle.
“I used to be around some really negative people, and I got out of it because I had a number of great people there too,” Clarkson said. “It was a case of turning around, facing them and walking toward the sunshine.”