An offer he could refuse. Anderson Cooper revealed on Thursday, September 23, that he turned down his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s offer to be his surrogate 10 years ahead of her death.“Sometimes people wonder how, during interviews, I stay stone-faced and listen to people say bats–t crazy things — I grew up with Gloria Vanderbilt,” the CNN anchor, 54, joked during a The Late Show With Stephen Colbert appearance, calling the late fashion designer “kind of nutty.”The journalist explained that the socialite, who died in 2019 at age 95, visited a gynecologist when she was 85, subsequently letting Cooper that she was told she could still carry a child.“She says to me, ‘Honey, I’m not talking about having a child of my own.
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