What To Know
- Hoda Kotb shared Halloween photos with her daughters, Haley and Hope, and ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman.
- Fans praised the former couple’s co-parenting after seeing them celebrate together.
- Kotb has described their relationship as a close friendship centered on co-parenting.
Hoda Kotb just shared Halloween photos with her kids and ex — and Today fans praised their”amazing” co-parenting.
On Saturday, October 31, the former Today co-host took to Instagram with a short slideshow showing how she and her family spent the spooky holiday.
“Happy Halloween,” she captioned the update, alongside Jack-o’-lantern emojis.
In the post, Kotb included three photos. One showed the family dog, Waffles, dressed as a pumpkin. Two other snapshots featured Kotb and her ex-fiancé, Joel Schiffman, dressed as “deviled eggs” (sunny-side-up eggs with devil horns) posing next to their daughters, Haley and Hope, also dressed up for Halloween.
Kotbb, 62, and Schiffman, 68, dated from 2013 to 2022. During that time, they welcomed Haley, 9, and Hope, 7, through adoption.
In the comments, Kotb’s followers marveled at how well she and her ex appear to be co-parenting their daughters. One Instagram user shared, “Happy Halloween. The way you co-parent is amazing.”
Another wrote, “Hoda, nice to see you all together, Joel too! He really is a good man. Loving dad and great friend!”
Someone else echoed, “Beautiful family. Great to see you all together. Happy Halloween.”
A different follower commented, “Love your coparenting. Truly selfless & so admirable.”
Meanwhile, yet another Instagram user quipped, “Hoda, you really are one eggcelent human!”
In her book Jump and Find Joy, Kotb detailed her and Schiffman’s approach to raising their children despite no longer being a romantic couple.
“We will co-parent in a beautiful way,” she wrote, per Today.com. “But I also think our ‘us’ is more of a, like, we’re dear friends now. And that’s beautiful, and it’s enjoyable, and it feels right. We were laughing the other day just in hysterics, and I feel like this is the right relationship for us to have.”
Kotb added, “I loved Joel then, and I love Joel now. I just had to remind myself that it was a different kind of love.”