When she isn’t spending her mornings cracking laughs and hosting The Today Show’s “late show” with Hoda Kotb, Kathie Lee Gifford can be found supporting her kids.
Like most moms, the Today Show host is beyond proud of her kids, 24-year-old Cassidy and 27-year-old Cody.
Still, it’s the one thing she’ll never tell them.
Cassidy Gifford
“We don’t say ‘proud’ in our family, we never have,” Kathie Lee says.
She recalls a time when her son, Cody, came home from his first semester at USC film school with straight A’s. The family was excited about Cody’s achievement, but Kathie Lee refrained from building him up too much.
“Cassidy was still home and she said, ‘Mom, why aren’t you saying something? Aren’t you proud of him?’ And I remember saying, ‘Cass, pride comes before the fall. A good book says that.’”