NEWSJenna Bush Hager Says 'Beautiful' Salma Hayek Going Skinny-Dipping for Her Birthday May Inspire Her to Do the Same: 'Can You Imagine Me?'
Jenna Bush Hager revealed Salma Hayek inspired her to go skinny-dipping.
Sept. 8 2026, Published 5:55 p.m. ET
Jenna Bush Hager has a scandalous idea for her upcoming birthday.
The anchor stole the celebratory move from Salma Hayek, who celebrated her 60th birthday by posting sultry images of herself skinny-dipping in the ocean.
Bush Hager and her co-host, Sheinelle Jones, discussed stripping down to swim on the Tuesday, September 8, episode of TODAY With Jenna and Sheinelle.
Salma Hayek skinny-dipped for her 60th birthday.
"She makes me want to swim in my birthday suit," Jones admitted.
Bush Hager quickly agreed, noting the "beautiful" actress looked like a mermaid as she splashed around in the picturesque ocean.
"You have a milestone birthday coming up," Jones addressed her counterpart, speaking of her upcoming 45th birthday in November. "Would you swim to celebrate?"
'Can You Imagine?'
Jenna Bush Hager refused to pose like Salma Hayek.
Bush Hager immediately answered that she would be more than happy to take a dip in her birthday suit in honor of the milestone.
"I'm not sure that I would post it," she admitted, referring to Hayek's carousel of seemingly totally naked images. "Can you imagine me? I'm not going to do that."
Jones said she could picture Bush Hager's carefree spirit posing naked in the water and tried to encourage her to at least take a couple of snaps of the nude escapade.
"You have a long torso. It would be nice," she gushed.
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Sheinelle Jones was baffled that Jenna Bush Hager has skinny-dipped.
Jones admitted she had never even tried skinny-dipping but recalled being told to give it a chance by a woman who gave her a tour of a home in upstate New York.
"You haven't lived until you've gone swimming naked in the moonlight," she recalled the woman saying. "And I was like, 'I'm not swimming naked in the moonlight.'"
The declaration prompted outrage from her coworkers, who were totally baffled that the 48-year-old wouldn't even give it a chance.
'We're Free'
Jenna Bush Hager feels 'free' while swimming naked.
"There's only like one other person in our staff who hasn't skinny-dipped," she noted. "Next time you see the staff of the fourth hour and you see them in the building, look at them like 'nasty.'"
Jones admitted that once, her top slid down while she was swimming alone and she felt a glimpse of what skinny-dipping may be like, but refused to commit to the process.
Bush Hager, on the other hand, seemed disappointed in her coworkers for not plunging into the water naked at some point or another in their lives.
"We're free," she raved to her co-host.
