{"id":28208,"date":"2025-12-09T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=28208"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:11:10","slug":"hoda-kotb-was-blindsided-by-a-devastating-double-blow-a-painful-divorce-and-a-cancer-diagnosis-within-months-of-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=28208","title":{"rendered":"Hoda Kotb was blindsided by a devastating double blow: a painful divorce and a cancer diagnosis within months of each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Career and First Marriage<br \/>\nHoda Kotb built her journalism career as a reporter and anchor long before she became a household name on TODAY. In 2005 she married Burzis Kanga, a former University of New Orleans tennis coach.<\/p>\n<p>Their wedding took place in December 2005 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer Diagnosis and Divorce<br \/>\nIn February 2007, during a routine exam, doctors detected abnormalities \u2014 and Hoda was diagnosed with breast cancer.<br \/>\nLater that same month, she filed for divorce from Kanga.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 she underwent a mastectomy, and over time she recovered and rebuilt her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Career and First Marriage Hoda Kotb built her journalism career as a reporter and anchor long before she became a household name on TODAY. In 2005&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28213,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions\/28213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}