Kathie Lee Gifford said the legacy of her late husband, Frank Gifford, lives on in their grandchildren.<\/p>\n
The couple had two kids, Cody Gifford and Cassidy Gifford. Cassidy Gifford and husband Ben Wierda share son Finn, 2, and daughter Rosie, 9 months. Cody Gifford, and his wife, Erika, are parents of sons Frank, 3, and Ford, 2, and Faith, who was born<\/a> in September 2025.<\/p>\n As a grandmother of five<\/a>, Kathie Lee says she can see Frank in them.<\/p>\n \u201cThey all have Frank\u2019s cleft chin,\u201d Kathie Lee told Hoda Kotb while appearing on TODAY March 9.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd they\u2019re all absolutely athletic,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Frank famously played for the New York Giants and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977. He died<\/a> in 2015 at the age of 84. <\/p>\n Kathie Lee, whose new historical novel, \u201cNero & Paul: How the Gospel of Grace Defeated the Ruler of Rome,\u201d comes out March 10, also gushed about the newest addition to the family, Faith, and how her brothers have taken a shine to her.<\/p>\n \u201cThe latest one is another little girl named Faith, and she is this delicate \u2014\u00a0she looks like a little Elizabeth Taylor,” she said. “And those boys of Cody\u2019s are so rambunctious. But they get around their baby sister, and it\u2019s just gentleness. We\u2019re blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n Kathie Lee has said she loves being a grandmother.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019Bubbe\u2019 is my name,\u201d she told TODAY.com<\/a> in 2024 about her chosen grandmother name<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s Yiddish.\u201d<\/p>\n She also loves seeing her own kids become parents, noting the \u201csheer joy of watching my children with their children.”<\/p>\n While appearing on Hoda’s “Making Space”<\/a> podcast in January, Kathie Lee gushed over her kids’ parenting skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s one of the most joyful things in my life is watching my children be such amazing parents,\u201d she said. \u201cIf Frank and I did anything right, it would be that.\u201d<\/p>\n Kathie Lee also recalled how she insisted her kids say “please” and “thank you” as children, which are lessons they have passed on to their own offspring. <\/p>\n She said her grandchildren have gone \u201cbeyond that\u201d and make sure to make eye contact when greeting people and wishing them well when they say goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kathie Lee Gifford said the legacy of her late husband, Frank Gifford, lives on in their grandchildren. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-321262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}