“If someone had said to me when I was a little girl, ‘Hey Hoda, guess what your life is going to be like: When you’re 49 or 50, you’re going to meet the guy you’re going to fall in love with, and you’re going to have children at 55 and 56,’ I would have been like, ‘What?'” the 56-year-old reflected to People in 2019, mere days after accepting Schiffman’s beach proposal in Mexico. “It just shows you, the perfect life for you, and this is for me, is exactly as it comes.”
The brief marriage to tennis coach Burzis Kanga in her 40s, the subsequent two-year relationship with lawyer Jay Blumenkopf, even the heartbreaking battle with breast cancer that she once worried had robbed her of the chance to have children, were all part of her personal journey. “Everything may look out of order, and it kind of feels it a little bit,” she allowed to People, “but it is all right on time.”
It’s a truth that coalesced fully for her in early 2020 as she sat with Schiffman after their girls had gone to bed, she shared on E!’s Pop of the Morning last January: “And I thought, ‘Man, if anyone has blessings that they wonder like, when are they coming? If anyone does…your time is coming, you just don’t know when.'”