After being told she couldn't conceive due to a cancer diagnosis, Hoda formally adopted her oldest daughter, Hayley Joy, when she was 52 years old. Despite trying to put the thought of motherhood out of her mind, at one point she just had to share her desire to be a mom with Joel. "So I never talked about it," she told Dr. Oz in an interview. "Then one day, sometimes you can only push your feelings away for so long and then you say, 'That's enough.' I have to say it out loud."