Savannah Guthrie Covers New York Family May 2015 Issue: "This Has Been the Best Year of My Life"

Today host got married and had a baby in 2014

By Francesca Bacardi May 01, 2015 7:49 PMTags
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There's no doubt about it: Savannah Guthrie really is having an incredible year.

She is a co-anchor on Today, a new mom and a wife to Michael Feldman, a public relations and communications consultant who also used to work as a Democratic political adviser. The last two, however, happened all in one year! Yes, she got married and delivered baby Vale all in 2014, officially making it the "best year" of her life.

Guthrie covers New York Family's May 2015 issue and inside she explains how blessed she feels for all of the opportunities she has been able to experience, especially for her life on the NBC morning show. "I've been a Today show viewer my whole life and, to me, it's this iconic, wonderful show," she explains. "To think that I get to be a part of it is just beyond imagination."

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Even though she has to wake up at a staggering 3 a.m. every day, her role on the show and the family she comes home to afterwards make it more than worth it. In fact, it's not the show that makes her feel like a star, it's her daughter!

"In my mind, of course, I always thought and hoped and wanted to have kids, but I never knew what it would be like to actually be a mom," she dishes. "I came home yesterday and she put her hands up and was jumping up and down in her highchair, just so excited to see me—I was like, 'I feel like a celebrity because Vale recognizes me and knows me!'"

As a public figure, Guthrie had to go through her pregnancy live on the air every morning, which undoubtedly could be difficult. But she took it in stride, even calling it a "very positive" experience. It seems her only complaint, however, is that it became harder to put on clothes towards the very end.

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"Of course, it's not easy, necessarily, as your body is changing, and you're getting bigger and bigger, and you're in the eighth month of pregnancy, and you're like: 'What am I going to wear today?' And you're doing that on national TV—so there were some days that were better than others, but mostly it added a real something special to the whole experience," she explains.

Guthrie is also lucky to have colleagues who are also parents, so she can turn to them when she needs advice or is just worrying about her daughter at home. But after eight months of taking care of their daughter, she and her husband have learned a few things along the way.

"Just try to be gentle on yourself. Especially in New York, we have a lot of working moms and moms who have been successful in careers," she tells the magazine. "We're used to understanding a problem and executing a strategy at work. And then you're at home with this little baby, and it's just a whole new area and you know nothing about it, and you feel so helpless and you wish you could reason your way out of this situation—and you can't!"

She continues, "You just have to trust that you know as much about this, and about your baby, as anybody else. Don't worry so much—that would be my best advice. I'd like to take it, too!"

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