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- Change recently came within Cohen’s own household, when he decided to become a father through surrogacy with the birth of his son Ben in February 2019.
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May 7, 2023 · We vacation together, spend New Year's Eve together, and both of us decided to become dads in our early fifties. Lucy, Andy's daughter, just turned one; his son, Benjamin, is four. I have a...
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Feb 14, 2019 · Andy Cohen “always knew [he] wanted a family,” but he admits that he wasn’t sure becoming a father would ever become a reality for him.
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- Benjamin Allen Cohen, 4
- Lucy Eve Cohen, 15 months
Andy Cohen became emotional while recounting a story about a time he felt like he had failed his 4-year-old son, Ben.
“Ben goes to a progressive nursery school in New York City. I’m the only single parent and I’m the only gay dad,” Cohen, 55, revealed during a conversation with NPR in May. It’s an experience the Bravo host once described as “surprisingly lonely.”
During his chat with NPR, Cohen illustrated what he meant by lonely, when he recalled a birthday party Ben attended at a playground.
“It was unseasonably warm and all of a sudden, the sprinklers went on and all the moms suddenly had changes of clothes for the kids so they could run around in the sprinklers and Ben didn’t,” Cohen said. “He was the only child who couldn’t play in the sprinklers.”
The Bravo host said he cried when he got home.
“I just felt so, like, ‘Maybe you don’t know what you’re doing,’” Cohen said.
Cohen announced the birth of his son, Benjamin Allen, with a sweet selfie on Instagram.
“He is named after my grandfather Ben Allen,” Cohen wrote, in part. “I’m in love. And speechless. And eternally grateful to an incredible surrogate. And I’m a dad. Wow.”
In the picture, a beaming Cohen is shown cradling newborn Ben to his chest. Later that month, Cohen opened up about fatherhood to TODAY anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb.
“There is a comfort in knowing that he’s there waiting for me,” Cohen said. “I went out for my first night away from him, just for dinner with friends the other night, and I was sitting there and I realized, ‘Wow! I love it that he’s there at home for me.’ It’s an anchor. It’s my family. I was like, ‘I love this feeling.’”
When Anderson Cooper welcomed his son Wyatt in 2020, the two boys became besties, just like their dads.
“We’ll get over there and Wyatt will be sleeping and Anderson will say, ‘Do you want to come into his room to wake him up with me?’” Cohen told People in 2021. “And Ben’s like, ‘Yeah.’ And so they go in there and they wake them up and it’s really cute.
Cohen surprised fans on April 29, 2022, when he announced the arrival of his daughter, Lucy, with a photo.
“HERE’S LUCY!!!!! Meet my daughter, Lucy Eve Cohen!” Cohen wrote on Instagram. “She’s 8 pounds 13 oz and was born at 5:13 pm in New York City!!! Her big brother can’t wait to meet her!”
The TV personality also shouted out his”rock star” surrogate adding, “ALL surrogates are rockstars by the way.”
During a 2023 appearance on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, Cohen revealed that Lucy was one of the first children born via gestational surrogate in the state of New York.
Gestational surrogacy uses the egg of the mother and the sperm of the father or sperm donor to create an embryo, which is then transferred to the uterus of the surrogate via in vitro fertilization. It was illegal in New York until February 2021, when the Child-Parent Security Act was passed.
Lucy’s moniker has special meaning, Cohen explained on “Watch What Happens Live.”
- Rachel Paula Abrahamson
Mar 7, 2019 · On February 4, Benjamin Allen Cohen was born, turning Andy Cohen into a a fully formed daddy. Needless to say, life has changed for the former carefree bachelor.
- Spencer Bergen
Aug 24, 2023 · He explained that “Ben goes to a progressive nursery school in New York City” where he is not just the only single parent but also the only gay father.
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