Hoda Kotb is sharing how a simple question to her 6-year-old daughter revealed an emotional answer that had Hoda looking at her in a new way.

The former TODAY co-anchor spoke with Jenna Bush Hager on the Sept. 23 episode of the "Open Book with Jenna" podcast about asking her daughter Hope what it's like to live with Type 1 diabetes .

Hoda was reading Hope a book about Cinderella when she decided to broach the subject of her daughter's life with the autoimmune disorder.

"I close the book and I look at her, and she’s just looking at me with those big brown eyes," Hoda said. "And I go, 'Can I ask you something, honey?' And she goes, 'Yeah.' And I go, 'What’s it like to have diabetes?'

"And she looked at me and she goes, 'Well, it hurts with the needles,'" Hoda continued. "'And it hurts

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