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Hoda Kotb<\/a><\/strong> is already starting to feel the heat in her new hot seat gig, and now RadarOnline.com<\/em> can exclusively reveal the pressures from the coveted position are already having a serious affect on her personal and family life.<\/p>\n As the new main anchor of the TODAY<\/em> show, Kotb, 53, is beside herself as execs continue to pile her with a grueling schedule.<\/p>\n As Radar<\/em> readers know, now that Kotb has taken Matt Lauer<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s job as Savannah Guthrie<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s permanent cohost, travel will become a much more frequent part of her job!<\/p>\n PHOTOS: New Mom At 52! Hoda Cradles Adopted Baby Before Returning To Work<\/a><\/p>\n As readers know, Kotb was \u201criddled with gried\u201d after she had to leave her adopted baby daughter behind<\/a> in order to cover the Olympics in South Korea.<\/p>\n \u201cHoda Kotb didn\u2019t bother to stay in South Korea for the closing ceremony of the Olympics and was just ready to get home to daughter, Haley Joy and partner, Joel,\u201d an informant told Radar<\/em> exclusively. \u201cIt was a grueling almost two and a half weeks to be away from Haley<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n While Kotb managed to do video chats with her family while she was away, it just wasn\u2019t the same as being there, says the source. \u201cShe missed Haley\u2019s 1st birthday on February 14 because she was already in South Korea. They celebrated before Hoda left, but it was just weighing on Hoda that she wasn\u2019t with Haley on her birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n PHOTOS: Sexting, Cheating & Bad Behavior: Inside Matt Lauer\u2019s Most Shocking Sex Scandals<\/a><\/p>\n As fans know, Kotb expressed her grief over missing her baby\u2019s birthday<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s already Valentine\u2019s Day in South Korea and I am missing my Valentine\u2019s baby! We celebrated little Haley\u2019s bday before I left,\u201d Kotb wrote on a sweet Instagram video of her singing \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to her stunned child.<\/p>\n Just hours after touching back down in the Big Apple after a long and tiring trip, Kotb is said to have to be back at work first thing on Monday morning, and \u201cHoda isn\u2019t happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe had wanted to take some time off to make up for the time spent away from Haley, but her bosses said no. The morning news ratings race takes precedence over everything.\u201d<\/p>\n