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The presenter said he felt it was important, amid stories about those who suffer and die during the coronavirus pandemic, “to hang on to moments of joy.”
Anderson Cooper is a father, a milestone that the CNN presenter says for a time that he didn’t think would ever happen.
Cooper announced the birth of his son, Wyatt, on Thursday night on his show and in a long Instagram post. Her son was born Monday through a surrogate, the journalist said, and is named after his father who died when Cooper was 10 years old.
“On Monday, I became a father. I’ve never said that out loud before, and it still amazes me,” Cooper said on his show, “AC360.”
The presenter said he felt it was important, amid stories about those who suffer and die during the coronavirus pandemic, “to hang on to moments of joy.”
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The segment included several photos of the newborn.
“As a gay boy, I never thought it would be possible to have a child, and I am grateful to everyone who has paved the way, and to the doctors and nurses and everyone involved in the birth of my son,” Cooper wrote on Instagram.
“Above all, I am grateful for a remarkable substitute who brought Wyatt and cared for him with love and tenderness, and gave birth to him.”
Cooper, 52, said he regretted that his parents and brother were not alive to meet their son. Cooper’s mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, died in July at age 95.
The Instagram post included a photo of Cooper feeding his son a bottle. The baby’s middle name, Morgan, is also a last name. It was a name his parents considered for Cooper, according to a list he recently found.
