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Anderson Cooper just became a dad. Here's how the son of an heiress became America's favorite news anchor.
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- Anderson Cooper is one of television's most recognizable news anchors.
- After he was born into a privileged family in New York high-society life, the journalism icon experienced adventure and tragedy.
- On April 30, Cooper announced that his son, Wyatt Morgan Cooper, was born via surrogacy on April 27.
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Though now known as the lead anchor and face of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," Anderson Cooper has led a life of adventure, tragedy, and celebrity as he has appeared right at home in high society and war-torn countries alike across the world.
Cooper has been a household name since he was born to the model, socialite, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, long before he led political coverage on one of the most prominent American news netwo
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Anderson Cooper A biography
Photograph of Anderson's (left) mother
Though, he modelled quite a bit, he never pursued it later as a teen. In an interview to Howard Stern in 2014, he revealed the reason he had quit modelling at 13 years of age. Cooper has frequently discussed his child modelling days, but he never talked about the disturbing experience that brought about an end to this brief career.
Cooper said, -I got propositioned by a photographer...a male. He somehow got my number and called me up and offered me money, and it so freaked me out. I never told anybody. I just stopped. I was like, ‗Forget it'‖. For the 13 years old boy, physical intimacy wasn't anything to think about. He thought the photographer was probably gay or probably that he saw that Cooper was on his own and didn't have a parent or guardian there.
He remembers how as a small boy his mother took him to look at the statue of his great-great-great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt at Grand Central Station as told by him in his memoir, "Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disaster
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Anderson Cooper
American journalist (born 1967)
Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967)[1] is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator who anchors the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes, produced by CBS News. After graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989, he began traveling the world, shooting footage of war-torn regions for Channel One News. Cooper was hired by ABC News as a correspondent in 1995, but he soon took more jobs throughout the network, working for a short time as a co-anchor, reality game show host, and fill-in morning talk show host.
In 2001, Cooper joined CNN, where he was given his own show, Anderson Cooper 360°; he has remained the show's host since. He developed a reputation for his on-the-ground reporting of breaking news events, with his coverage of Hurricane Katrina causing his popularity to sharply increase. For his coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Cooper received a National Order of Honour and M
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