TODAY Host Calls Her Children ‘A Miracle’
By Movieguide® Contributor
TODAY anchor Savannah Guthrie says her job as a mother is to “be just rock solid” for her kids.
“I think parenting is so hard,” she said in an interview with TODAY. “It’s so perplexing. It’s the most challenging thing you could ever take on.”
Guthrie added, “I think our job as moms is to be just rock solid. I’m here and I’m for you. You can count on that. You can take that to the bank. You might be mad at me. That’s fine. I’ll still be here and I’ll still be for you and on your side.”
The TODAY anchor shares a daughter, Vale, 10, and a son, Charley, 8, with her husband Michael Feldman.
“When I look at her I’m so proud and I can’t stop thanking God,” Guthrie said at the time of Vale’s birth in 2014. “I feel like life just started. I can’t get over the joy that she brings — it’s kind of inexpressible. Honestly, I think it is beyond words.”
Guthrie welcomed Charley two years later via IVF.
“I would say Vale was a miracle, and Charley was a medical miracle,” she said in an interview with Health magazine. “When making that decision about whether to go through IVF, my husband and I talked about it a lot. I didn’t want to start a process where we spent all of our present searching after some future…when our present was so lovely and beautiful and enough.”
Guthrie continued, “My husband and I, we decided, ‘OK, let’s give it a shot,’ you know? But it ended up taking more than one attempt. It took a few. But we were lucky. I always say, Charley was, like, the last egg out. He really was. And we’re so blessed.”
The TODAY star opened up about becoming a mother later in life in conversation with TODAY co-anchor Hoda Kotb.
“We had our kids late. You know, you go through life, you have your ups and downs, your heart breaks a few dozen times. You get some scar tissue,” Guthrie explained.
However, after having Vale and Charley, she was “so totally vulnerable to them.”
“Because I knew…if anything happened to them, I would not be OK. I wouldn’t be OK. And it was terrifying,” Guthrie shared. “I was totally terrified by my vulnerability. So that was the first thing I learned from being a mom.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Guthrie’s faith and how she instills that same faith in her children:
Co-anchor of NBC’s TODAY Show Savannah Guthrie is unashamed of her relationship with Jesus and teaches her children to rely on God’s Word.
“I think sometimes people are surprised that my faith means so much to me,” Guthrie answered during an interview with Guidepost writer Celeste McCauley. “But I think that’s less and less true because I’ve talked about it publicly a bunch. If I’m asked, I talk about it.”
She added: “I love talking about my faith. I love talking about God’s love. I love talking about how we all struggle and are on this journey together.”
Guthrie, who shares two children with her husband Michael Feldman, said she wants to raise her daughter and son with the Truth found in the Bible.
“My daughter is six and a half with a phenomenal memory. I told her, ‘I think this is your verse, and I think you can memorize it.’ I love the verse because it’s a moment in which you allow yourself to just soak in and remain in God’s love,” Guthrie said. “That’s so powerful. When you feel beloved and delighted in and rejoiced over, how can you do anything but go out into the world and spread that around? It’s the kind of verse that’s deeply fulfilling and nurturing and nourishing, but it also has an amazing and immediate effect in the world around you.”
