Hoda Kotb and ex Joel Schiffman coparented for Christmas.
Kotb, 61, took to Instagram on Thursday, December 25, to share a family photo that included Schiffman, 67, and their two daughters, Haley, 8, and Hope, 6. Kotb’s mother and sister were also featured in the selfie as the group posed in matching green plaid pajama pants and green Santa-themed T-shirts. The adults also sported mini light-up Santa hat headbands.
“Merry Christmas🎄❤️,” Kotb captioned the post.
Kotb and Schiffman called off their engagement in 2022 after eight years together.
“Joel and I have had a lot of prayerful and meaningful conversations over the holidays and we decided that we are better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple, so we decided we are going to start this new year on our new path as loving parents to our adorably delightful children and as friends,” the TV personality said on Today after fans noticed that she wasn’t wearing her engagement ring, which the financier gave to her in 2019.
“It’s not like something happened,” Kotb continued. “They say sometimes relationships are meant to be there for a reason or a season or for a lifetime. And I feel like ours was meant to be there for a season.”
Kotb further broke down their decision to split in her book Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life, which was released in September.
“Our decision to part wasn’t one that we took lightly, but we knew it was the right one,” she wrote. “It came from a place of love, not anger, which makes a big difference.”
Kotb added, “There was no cheating, no scandal, no big crisis. It sounds cliché, but truth is, we were just growing apart. There wasn’t the drama you hear about in all the great country songs. The no-good, two-timing, whiskey-loving heartbreakers. It simply wasn’t us.”
Kotb and Schiffman became parents in 2017 when they adopted Haley, followed by Hope two years later. After their split, the exes continued to amicably coparent their daughters, often celebrating holidays and the girls’ birthdays together.
“He sees the kids,” Kotb exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2022. “He takes them to school some, and he sees them on weekends. We’ve got a really nice, easy situation.”
The I’ve Loved You Since Forever author continued, “We make sure that the kids get plenty of him and plenty of me.”
Kotb also reassured Us that she and Schiffman are still “close friends.”
Hoda Kotb and Joel Schiffman have remained on good terms after their split. The couple met and started dating in 2013. As their relationship progressed, the TV personality was often asked whether she wanted to walk down the aisle again. Kotb was previously married to Burzis Kanga from 2005 to 2008. After Kotb adopted daughter Haley in […]
Though she and her ex-fiancé have maintained a positive relationship in the years since their split, Kotb admitted earlier this year that she has wondered what impact her life as a single mom would have on her daughters.
“I’m raising my kids essentially by myself,” Kotb said during a May appearance on the “Making Space” podcast. “I often think about, like, ‘How will they understand what love looks like?’”
Kotb has dipped her toes into the dating pool since her split from Schiffman.
“I do have to say something, something did happen the other day that hasn’t happened in two years,” she said during a 2024 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “I had a date! I had a date.”
Months later, Kotb revealed that she had hit pause on the new relationship.
“I did go on the third date, but I did kind of decide in that space — because this person who’s a lovely human being has a lot of … things that are being worked out — that I think I’m looking for more … simplicity,” she said during an August 2024 episode of “The Jamie Kern Lima Show” podcast. “He’s very cute, by the way, extremely handsome. I’ll show you a picture after, but [things are] tabled for now.”
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