When Jennifer Griffin, national security correspondent for Fox News, was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, she says the hardest part of sharing the news with her three young kids was telling them she was going to be bald. Watch as she shares her story with TODAY and explains how she turned what could have been a very emotional moment into something that wasn't so scary:

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