She’s one of the most familiar faces on morning television — but what people say to her off camera is a whole different story. During a recent on-air chat with her co-host, the former First Daughter casually revealed the surprisingly blunt — and honestly kind of awkward — comments she’s received about her real-life appearance compared to her TV look. While her co-anchor joked about being told he’s “more handsome on TV,” she dropped her own version of the story… and let’s just say the room froze for a second. It was honest, funny, and uncomfortably relatable — the kind of moment that reminds you even the most polished TV stars still have to deal with real-world commentary

TV versus real life can be a very real disparity sometimes, or at least appear to be. Just ask Jenna Bush Hager!

The TV personality and former First Daughter, 44, spoke with her co-anchor Matt Rogers on the January 7 edition of TODAY with Jenna & Friends about how people perceive them off-screen versus on.

As you can see in the video above, as Matt, 35, noted how a woman once told him he looks “so much more handsome on TV,” a shocked Jenna revealed the equally surprising (and potentially awkward) comments she herself has gotten over her appearance off the screen.

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“What would you prefer: people being, like, you look better in pictures, or people saying you look better in person,” was the question he posed to his co-anchor, who even threw in a comment from her twin sister Barbara Pierce Bush about it.

Matt is helping Jenna cap off her final week of TODAY’s Fourth Hour in its current iteration as TODAY with Jenna & Friends, one that began a year ago when Hoda Kotb left the show. Since then, she has had a host of A-list guest hosts like Matt, Scarlett Johansson, Rosie Perez, Leslie Bibb, and many more, plus more familiar faces like her TODAY colleagues and her husband Henry Hager.