On this Mother's Day, Savannah Guthrie's husband, Michael Feldman, pays homage to her unwavering strength. On Sunday, May 10th, he shared a heartwarming tribute to the mother of their two children on Instagram, as her own mother, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing. In the photo, the Today show co-anchor, 54, is seen embracing their two offspring - daughter Vale, 11, and son Charley, 9. The image depicts Savannah wrapping her arms around the children as she appears to plant a kiss on Charley.
"To the strongest person I know," Feldman, 57, wrote in the caption of the holiday post. "Surrounding you with love on Mother's Day."
Feldman's heartfelt tribute to Savannah comes as investigators continue their search for her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who was last seen on the night of January 31st. Authorities believe that the Today star's mother was abducted from her Tucson, Arizona home by a masked man who was captured on surveillance footage outside her front door in the early morning hours of February 1st. No suspects have been identified in the case.
The FBI has offered a $100,000 reward for any information leading to Nancy's recovery or an arrest in the case. Savannah and her family have since increased the reward to $1 million and donated $500,000 to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
It has been just over a month since Savannah returned to her anchor desk on the Today show in April after taking an extended leave of absence amid her mother's disappearance. Before her return, she taped an emotional interview with longtime colleague Hoda Kotb about her experience learning that her mother was missing and the ongoing investigation. She expressed that she refuses to let Nancy's abductor interfere with her relationship with her children.
"I will not fall apart. I will not let whoever did this take my children's mother from them," the journalist said through tears. "I will not let them take my joy."
In the interview with Kotb, 61, Savannah also shared what her children know about the investigation into their grandmother's abduction.
"It's so hard with kids, you know, because you want to protect them," she said of Vale and Charley, adding that when she was in Arizona during the investigation, her eldest daughter would write to her all the time, asking "Mama, any leads? You hear anything? Any hope?"
The Today co-anchor also said that she and Feldman "try to talk to" their kids about what's going on. Their goal as parents is to "try to give them a little more certainty than we have, to let them grieve."
