Hoda Kotb Is Taking Her Kids on 'Toot Walks' After Dinner Since Moving to Suburbs — and Jenna Bush Hager Has Some Thoughts

Mar. 15, 2025

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Hoda Kotbis introducing her girls to many new things now that they live in the suburbs — including going on a few different kinds of walks.

On the Friday, Sept. 6 episode ofToday with Hoda & Jenna, the mom of two shared that her family of three has been going on walks after dinner to get things moving, gastrically.

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“Is that because everybody needs to every night after dinner?” Bush Hager, 42, asked, with Kotb saying it’s better to pass gas outside.

Bush Hager then asked if Kotb’s family eats a lot of beans or fiber.

“But it is a great idea. Think about it. You go on walks after dinner,” Kotb responded.

“Yeah, but it’s not just to toot!” Bush Hager joked.

“But just call it that! The kids laugh and then go out the door faster because it’s fun,” Kotb replied.

In August, Dr. Matthew Kampert, a sport and exercise medicine physician with an appointment with orthopedic and endocrinology at the Cleveland Clinic, told PEOPLE the release of gastric pressure is just one of the benefits ofwhat he calls the “Fart Walk.”

In terms of your digestion, he told PEOPLE “after you have a meal, you have what’s called the gastrocolic reflex. So whenever you put things in your mouth and you eat and you swallow, it stimulates your gut to move things forward. So it makes room for the food that you’re eating.”

“So that’s going stimulate things to empty from your stomach and your small intestine and your colon," Kampert told PEOPLE. “The colon is where most of the bacteria is. It makes the gas.”

In August, Kotb sharedwhy she moved her two kidsout of New York City and into the suburbs.

“I want my kids to feel grass on their feet, and play in the yard, and ride bikes down the street, and run up and down the stairs,” she shared. “I just see that life for them in this perfect house in this beautiful little town where I know they’ll be able to blossom into beautiful, independent, strong women.”

The timing is especially right for Kotb, who noted that she’s in a “repotting phase” of her life.

“It’s like my roots need a bigger pot,” she said. “You know when you take a plant out of a pot, and it’s roots are all twisted and tight? And then you put it in a bigger pot with fresh new soil and it just grows bigger and stronger? That’s the journey I’m on right now. And it’s going to hurt a little, to leave that pot that was so comfortable for so long. But in the end, it’s going to be exactly what we need.”

source: people.com