Kathie Lee GiffordWe already gave you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at NBC's 'Today,' now let's get good and intimate with the show's fourth hour star, Kathie Lee Gifford. Sitting in her dressing room, with pictures of her family and some killer heels sitting nearby, KLG opened up to PopEater about why she thinks she's outlasted so many of her peers, her sincere love for Hoda Kotb and her frustration with the caliber of some of the stars she's chatting with each morning.

"This is my 45th year in this business," she tells me. "You don't survive because you have thick skin, you just develop a very thick skin against the people that don't matter." Watch after the jump!