Jenna Bush Hager Refuses to Set a Diet New Year's Resolution After Finding Heartbreaking Childhood Diary Entry

Daughter of former Republican president shares revelation after discovering kid journal

By Samantha Schnurr Jan 05, 2016 7:04 PMTags

Now that the holiday fanfare has officially come to a close for 2015, men and women are flocking back to the gym in herds. 

Whether it's a morning news segment sharing the keys to shedding those Christmas pounds or a celebrity flaunting their rock hard abs during their  New Year's getaway, the pressure to get into tip top shape seemed to be on as soon as it struck midnight on Jan. 1. 

Jenna Bush Hager isn't having any of it. 

The 34-year-old journalist and mother of two has lead a public life since her earliest days as the daughter of a politician and later American president. Forgotten for years, a childhood diary entry gave Hager a holiday revelation—dieting will no longer be included in her New Year's resolution. 

"This diary that broke my heart—my sister told me she'd found it four years before, but she never told me because it broke her heart."

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In an entry dated Jan. 1, 1991, a 10-year-old Hager wrote that she wanted to lose 4 pounds. 

Confused by her premature inclination to diet, the Today contributor, who is now the mother of two daughters of her own, declared she would eliminate the notion of any dieting from her 2016 goals. 

"This year that is not going to be on my list and it has probably been on in some form or another on my list for 25 years," she proclaimed.

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