Anderson Cooper is a dad!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing: if Stamos or Baio or any other rich guy has a baby with a much younger woman, it’s NBD because the mom will presumably live longer and will have plenty of money when the old rich guy dies.

Anderson doesn’t have a much younger partner. He has a somewhat younger ex. Not the same thing.

Stamps is married to a 30-year-old. Cooper is partnered to a 40-year-old. Both have guardianship rights over kids. Both have been there since birth. Both have access to substantial trusts.

Just say you’re bigoted and go.

Nice try.

Not bigoted.

All my gay friends with kids are married. Married. If they ever divorce (not likely given how long they’ve been together), the kids will be fine. They’ve established firm family bonds.

Cooper and his ex aren’t coparenting. They were barely a couple to begin with. He’s just covering the bases so the kids have someone if he dies.

I’m sure the kids will be fine regardless. But let’s not go overboard and make this out as an ideal situation. Kids are best served with younger parents—ideally two people in a loving, monogamous relationship. Couldn’t care less if they are gay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing: if Stamos or Baio or any other rich guy has a baby with a much younger woman, it’s NBD because the mom will presumably live longer and will have plenty of money when the old rich guy dies.

Anderson doesn’t have a much younger partner. He has a somewhat younger ex. Not the same thing.

Stamps is married to a 30-year-old. Cooper is partnered to a 40-year-old. Both have guardianship rights over kids. Both have been there since birth. Both have access to substantial trusts.

Just say you’re bigoted and go.

I don’t think most people thought an old man having children with a much younger woman was ever ok - it has always been weird and assumed he was largely absent. Think Tony Randall. You must be poor if you think having a substantial trust makes up for a dead or absent parent. Anderson Cooper was tossed in luxury and remains marked deeply by the absence of his father. When you get to a certain age it is selfish to have a baby. It is about you wanting that experience not about the child. That’s applies to Hoda as well. Richard Gere had a baby at 70! I mean what the actual?

I saw a clip of Rod Stewart on Graham Norton, and he told what he thought was a funny story about one of his kids. Background: Rod has had a lot of wives, and he has a bunch of kids—including some who are very young…and he’s super old. Think: legit geriatric. His story was essentially that he called home and one of his kids answered, and when they yelled for their mom to pick up they said, “Mom, Rod Stewart is on the phone.”

He thought it was funny.

I immediately thought it was sad. He’s not a dad in the traditional sense. He’s the old guy who is never around but pays the bills. I think Cooper probably isn’t that bad, but possibly pretty close. He works a lot. So does Hoda. Most celebs have a stay at home spouse who is the primary parent. Coopers kids are more like fun accessories. I suspect Elton John’s kids are in the same boat. Unmarried Madonna is the same situation, and look how that turned out; her son opted to stick with Guy Ritchie who built a new, intact family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing: if Stamos or Baio or any other rich guy has a baby with a much younger woman, it’s NBD because the mom will presumably live longer and will have plenty of money when the old rich guy dies.

Anderson doesn’t have a much younger partner. He has a somewhat younger ex. Not the same thing.

Stamps is married to a 30-year-old. Cooper is partnered to a 40-year-old. Both have guardianship rights over kids. Both have been there since birth. Both have access to substantial trusts.

Just say you’re bigoted and go.

I don’t think most people thought an old man having children with a much younger woman was ever ok - it has always been weird and assumed he was largely absent. Think Tony Randall. You must be poor if you think having a substantial trust makes up for a dead or absent parent. Anderson Cooper was tossed in luxury and remains marked deeply by the absence of his father. When you get to a certain age it is selfish to have a baby. It is about you wanting that experience not about the child. That’s applies to Hoda as well. Richard Gere had a baby at 70! I mean what the actual?

I saw a clip of Rod Stewart on Graham Norton, and he told what he thought was a funny story about one of his kids. Background: Rod has had a lot of wives, and he has a bunch of kids—including some who are very young…and he’s super old. Think: legit geriatric. His story was essentially that he called home and one of his kids answered, and when they yelled for their mom to pick up they said, “Mom, Rod Stewart is on the phone.”

He thought it was funny.

I immediately thought it was sad. He’s not a dad in the traditional sense. He’s the old guy who is never around but pays the bills. I think Cooper probably isn’t that bad, but possibly pretty close. He works a lot. So does Hoda. Most celebs have a stay at home spouse who is the primary parent. Coopers kids are more like fun accessories. I suspect Elton John’s kids are in the same boat. Unmarried Madonna is the same situation, and look how that turned out; her son opted to stick with Guy Ritchie who built a new, intact family.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:First of all he’s 54! I know you all are going to say “oh eh has lots of money and any of us could die at any time” but still this whole AARP parenting trend is concerning. I’m also getting really uncomfortable with rich people renting the bodies of women to produce children for them. It is all very freaking dystopian. I mean literally you can now order a human the same way you order a purebred dog and just pick it up when it is done.

+1 if you want kids, have them by 40.

Well, thankfully for me, Anderson Cooper, and lots of other folks-you're not the boss of that

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah and no one says nothing when a John Stamos or Scott Baio shows up old having a kid because they are straight and rush to get married. These men show up at 50 to have a kid because they can. Gay or straight. Single or married. Stop picking on Anderson. Everybody buys something. They buy a ring and a house or a surrogate.

Stupid Scott Baio had a show with several episodes on whether he should get married and have a kid and he was late 40s or early 50s. Pathetic.

A ring, a house, or a surrogate.

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things is a human being...

A living, breathing human being. Disgusting that this is how we view people, certain kinds of people, certain kinds of women, women of certain socioeconomic backgrounds. As some"thing" to be bought or rented, no different than jewelry or a home.

This.

A lot of gay white men are preying on poor women of color and no one has a thing to say because being gay is to be celebrated and women of color are perceived as dispensable body parts. The racism and narcissism are absolutely disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He's too old. Should have picked up this hobby 10 years ago if this is what he wanted to do.

How INCREDIBLY disrespectful of this new human being to call him a "hobby."

Is that how you think of your own children.

You are gross.

Um, no, Anderson is the disgusting one. He used his racial and socioeconomic privilege to exploit one woman for an egg, another for her uterus, and a third for her time. He has had minimal involvement in the creation, care, and rearing of his own child. That child isn’t a real human being to him. It’s a box he has checked on his bucket list. Little more than a luxury vehicle he bought just to say he owns one too. The nanny who is a mother figure will soon be taken from the child when it’s time for private school and expensive classes. No consideration for the attachment issues and pain he is creating for this motherless and fatherless creature he had made to cheer him up after his mother’s death.

[Anonymous]

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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.

it is different, but not worse. Love is what they need. Not a female body.[/quote

Actually, you do need a female body! And in this case two! One to get the eggs and one to be the surrogate. Did you fail biology?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's too old. Should have picked up this hobby 10 years ago if this is what he wanted to do.

How INCREDIBLY disrespectful of this new human being to call him a "hobby."

Is that how you think of your own children.

You are gross.

Um, no, Anderson is the disgusting one. He used his racial and socioeconomic privilege to exploit one woman for an egg, another for her uterus, and a third for her time. He has had minimal involvement in the creation, care, and rearing of his own child. That child isn’t a real human being to him. It’s a box he has checked on his bucket list. Little more than a luxury vehicle he bought just to say he owns one too. The nanny who is a mother figure will soon be taken from the child when it’s time for private school and expensive classes. No consideration for the attachment issues and pain he is creating for this motherless and fatherless creature he had made to cheer him up after his mother’s death.

Was Cooper raised by a nanny?

I know an affluent woman who was essentially raised by her beloved nanny. The family kept her on board as a housekeeper when she went off to boarding school. She essentially lived in the nyc penthouse until she reached retirement and the adult child was fully launched.

I think many old money families operate in similar fashion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's too old. Should have picked up this hobby 10 years ago if this is what he wanted to do.

How INCREDIBLY disrespectful of this new human being to call him a "hobby."

Is that how you think of your own children.

You are gross.

Um, no, Anderson is the disgusting one. He used his racial and socioeconomic privilege to exploit one woman for an egg, another for her uterus, and a third for her time. He has had minimal involvement in the creation, care, and rearing of his own child. That child isn’t a real human being to him. It’s a box he has checked on his bucket list. Little more than a luxury vehicle he bought just to say he owns one too. The nanny who is a mother figure will soon be taken from the child when it’s time for private school and expensive classes. No consideration for the attachment issues and pain he is creating for this motherless and fatherless creature he had made to cheer him up after his mother’s death.

+1. Well put. This is all SICK.