Former first lady Laura Bush had thoughts about daughter Jenna Bush Hager's choice for her firstborn's name. "We named our eldest daughter Mila, like a perfectly popular name," Jenna, 44, said on the Thursday, December 4, episode of Today With Jenna & Friends, also referring to her husband, Henry Hager. "Afterward, my mom called and said, 'In Texas, they're calling her My-la, the way you spelled it. Lela is [spelled] L-E-L-A, maybe you change it to M-E-L-A.'" Jenna, however, was not on board with her mom's request. (Laura, 79, and her husband, former President George W.