Anderson Cooper is a dad!

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Anonymous wrote:So whose the mother?

Probably a 20-something who just made $500k.

He mentioned that the surrogate has a family and several children and her husband was very supportive.

There was an egg donor. The surrogate carried the baby.

Which 30-something female celebrities is he known to be very close with? Can't be a very long list. Likely a smart one with a prestige college degree.

No one wants a 30 something egg. Hate to break it to you! (I'm 40, fwiw)

Touché. But since this was all IVF with (1) Anderson sperm, (2) donor egg & (3) paid surrogate, wouldn’t docs verify (2) donor egg was of high quality before beginning? Doesn’t rule out potential for Anderson to ask someone in their 30s. Likely a very long-time trusted friend.

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While I would not start my family at 50, he will be 70 when the kid graduates high school. 74 when the kid graduates college and 80 when the kid turns 30. My mother in law is 75. She is annoying AF but alive. My grandmother is 92. (So if Anderson lives that long kid will be in his 40s and many people in their 40s lose a parent).

My mom died when I was 11. Another pps sister died when daughter was 2. There are no guarantees that you will have a parent until you are 65. It’s just not a thing. He has the resources to make sure he is not a burden when he gets older (which is a huge issue for people in the sandwich generation). The kid will grow up with love and resources and will as ok as if he dad had him when he was 34.

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I find something sad about infants being taken away from their birth mother and then being raised by a single man. Maybe I’m just hormonal but infants need that warm, female, maternal energy that you can only get from women or birth mom. I’m not saying men aren’t capable but I notice a difference in the way my own children react to male relatives as opposed to female.

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Anonymous wrote:Just read that AC "quietly reunited" with his ex BF Benjamin Maisani who he was with for nine years and broke up with a few years ago. So apparently they are together again now.

AC probably orchestrated the split to avoid having to risk formalizing his parental status and being on the hook for future shared custody and child support. This is AC’s baby alone...which is kinda sad if he dies in the next 30 years.

Good for him. I love a hard worker who is smart about his money.

As for the future - you have no idea what that entails. Plenty of parents outlive kids (unfortunately) and he might like having a son so much he'll do a Cristiano Ronaldo and have the same surrogate pop out 2 more.

(The woman in this pic is only the biological mother of 1 of these kids. The other 3 were all surrogate babies for Cristiano. Great way to avoid child support payments and get biological kids)

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Anonymous wrote:I find something sad about infants being taken away from their birth mother and then being raised by a single man. Maybe I’m just hormonal but infants need that warm, female, maternal energy that you can only get from women or birth mom. I’m not saying men aren’t capable but I notice a difference in the way my own children react to male relatives as opposed to female.

To me that says your husband is distant or even abusive and doesn't shower the kids with affection like you do. So they look to female relatives to model the same attractive behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:While I would not start my family at 50, he will be 70 when the kid graduates high school. 74 when the kid graduates college and 80 when the kid turns 30. My mother in law is 75. She is annoying AF but alive. My grandmother is 92. (So if Anderson lives that long kid will be in his 40s and many people in their 40s lose a parent).

My mom died when I was 11. Another pps sister died when daughter was 2. There are no guarantees that you will have a parent until you are 65. It’s just not a thing. He has the resources to make sure he is not a burden when he gets older (which is a huge issue for people in the sandwich generation). The kid will grow up with love and resources and will as ok as if he dad had him when he was 34.

People talk about this one lived until 87 and this one until 95. In my family everyone claims the elder was sharp as a tack even when there was a known diagnosis of Alzheimers. The chances go way up after 65/70 and 75. Living long does not mean living independently and of sound mind. Yes, anyone could lose a parent anytime. However the older you are, the more likely to lose it and/or die. Stats are against him. If he had done this in his 30s I would have been much more impressed.

It's an interesting time for sure because the people I know who decided to become parents on their own in their 40s are now scared to death of developing Covid and in one case her back up parents have backed out due to a cancer diagnosis in one and serious autoimmune issues in the other which are disabling.

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Anonymous wrote:I find something sad about infants being taken away from their birth mother and then being raised by a single man. Maybe I’m just hormonal but infants need that warm, female, maternal energy that you can only get from women or birth mom. I’m not saying men aren’t capable but I notice a difference in the way my own children react to male relatives as opposed to female.

I know your comment isn’t PC and all but I get it. I feel the same. This is a tough one.

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He looks so happy!

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Anonymous wrote:I find something sad about infants being taken away from their birth mother and then being raised by a single man. Maybe I’m just hormonal but infants need that warm, female, maternal energy that you can only get from women or birth mom. I’m not saying men aren’t capable but I notice a difference in the way my own children react to male relatives as opposed to female.

I know your comment isn’t PC and all but I get it. I feel the same. This is a tough one.

Ommggg this isn’t the same thing as those baby chimps put in cages. The baby is with a warm, loving individual who wanted him. Sure he doesn’t have breasts or squishy bits, but I don’t doubt the love and warmth is there.

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He is at work all the time ( including this week)... good thing he has the money to hire an excellent nanny.

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“Old Man Buys Child”

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Anonymous wrote:Im totally against him not taking paternity leave. He is already proving that the kid is just another thing to add to his resume. He is the only parent and yet, he is not bonding or making the sacrifices a parent should make. Poor kid- raised by nannies.

I have to agree with this. The child LITERALLY has no other family than Anderson-- no other parent, no grandparents, no aunts, uncles, or cousins. And Anderson doesn't even take paternity leave when he's born? WTF? That's messed up IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:Im totally against him not taking paternity leave. He is already proving that the kid is just another thing to add to his resume. He is the only parent and yet, he is not bonding or making the sacrifices a parent should make. Poor kid- raised by nannies.

I have to agree with this. The child LITERALLY has no other family than Anderson-- no other parent, no grandparents, no aunts, uncles, or cousins. And Anderson doesn't even take paternity leave when he's born? WTF? That's messed up IMO.

This 'is' Anderson's version of paternity leave.

Before SIP, Anderson was filming the 360 show 5 nights a week then flying to foreign countries like Guatamala and Afghanistan OVER THE WEEKEND for 60 minutes specials and then the whole New Year's special he does every year which takes weeks of preparation. For awhile he also had a daily Facebook show going too.

The man's a workaholic. Only filming Anderson 360 5 nights a week is a pretty slow time commitment for him. And you know he lives close to the CNN headquaraters in NYC with a private driver.

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I would also think the baby and nanny are at the studio with him (or he’s only going in just for the show then going right home). He’s only on air like 2 hours a day and probably not mucb time in the hair and makeup chair.
He’s going to live to be 100–good genes from his mom, in great shape, and the best medical care. I’d feel differently if he was 60 but it’s extremely unlikely he’ll have any significant decline before this kid is grown.

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Anonymous wrote:I find something sad about infants being taken away from their birth mother and then being raised by a single man. Maybe I’m just hormonal but infants need that warm, female, maternal energy that you can only get from women or birth mom. I’m not saying men aren’t capable but I notice a difference in the way my own children react to male relatives as opposed to female.

I know your comment isn’t PC and all but I get it. I feel the same. This is a tough one.

Honestly, from what I've observed, it's mostly true, but not 100% accurate. My father is very gentle and attentive with babies, and he loves kids in general. When my kids were born, he flew in with my mother, but did all the diaper changes and burping and stuff, as gently as if I'd have done it myself.