Anderson Cooper’s cuties! The CNN anchor and ex-boyfriend Benjamin Maisani are proud parents to their two sons.Cooper announced during a May 2020 CNN Town Hall broadcast that he had secretly welcomed his first child via surrogate.“I want to share with you some joyful news.
On Monday, I became a father. This is Wyatt Cooper,” the New York native later wrote via Instagram, sharing the first photo of Wyatt. “He is named after my father, who died when I was 10.
I hope I can be as good a dad as he was.”The Vanderbilt: Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty author — who is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt and Wyatt Emory — revealed that Wyatt’s middle name is Morgan, which is also a family name. “I know my mom and dad liked the name Morgan because I recently found a list they made 52 years ago when they were trying to think of names for me,” Cooper concluded his Instagram announcement. “He is sweet, and soft, and healthy and I am beyond happy.”After Wyatt’s arrival, the TV journalist asked Maisani — whom he dated between 2009 and 2018 — to coparent his son.“I don’t really have a family, so my friends have become my family,” he explained during a May 2020 appearance on The Howard Stern Show. “This is somebody I was involved with for 10 years.
He’s a great guy. I think it’s good to have two parents if you can. … When I was a little kid, it was just my mom and my brother.
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