How Hoda Kotb Learned to Be ‘Happy’ with Her Mastectomy Scars

The 57-year-old credited two people in her life for helping her mend her relationship with her body: a person she’d dated at the time and a friend’s aunt, who also survived breast cancer. “There was a person who was in my life at that time who saw me as really beautiful,” she recalled. “That was his purpose, I think, in my life. I remembered feeling not pretty and not worthy, and somebody doesn’t see the scars…All the sudden your back is straighter, you feel better, and you made it through that hurdle,” she added. “Now I look at my scars, and I’m happy.”

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