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Andy Cohenis adding to his family!
Cohen welcomed his first child, sonBenjamin Allen, via surrogate on Feb. 4, 2019. At the time, he told PEOPLE he “didn’t want to wait” any longer to become a father, even if it meantdoing it as a single parent.
Andy Cohen and Son Benjamin Allen.Andy Cohen Instagram
“It’s not something in your mind — ‘Oh, I want to do this alone.’ But I like being alone,” he explained. “I didn’t want to wait. To meit would have to be a very special person to say, ‘Let’s do this together.’ And I would love that, and that person could be having coffee down the street at this moment and I’ll meet him soon.”
Cohen added that he “always knew [he] wanted a family” but “as a gay man, I never thought it was in the cards for me.”
“When I came out to my parents in 1988, my mom said she had to mourn the life that I wasn’t going to be able to have. And that life meant getting married and having kids,” he recalled.
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“[At that time] people were dying of AIDS; [that’s] what was happening in the gay community. So all these years later, gay men are raising families and getting married. There were points where I thought that it was too late for me or that I was really focused on my career, and I was having too much fun to think about it. It was still there nagging at me in the back of my head.”
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“Turning 50 also played a big part. I just realized that now was the time. From the time I decided, ‘Okay, I’m doing this,’ which was December 2017, for the entire year of 2018 I lived my life as though it was my last year on the planet,” Cohen continued. “I knew that I was turning a page on that chapter in my life. It’s not to say that I can’t go to a party anymore, but things are changing.”
Later, in December 2019, Cohen revealed on SiriusXM Radio Andy’sJeff LewisLivethat hehad “at least one” embryo remaining, after his son was born that February.
Ben and Andy Cohen.ALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty
Earlier this year, in February, Cohen celebrated son Benjamin’s 3rd birthday on the same day as his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
The paircouldn’t stop grinning ear-to-earas they posed next to Cohen’s star.
Cohen looked dapper in a navy blue suit, crisp white shirt, black tie, and black shoes while kneeling down next to his star and his son Benjamin, who looked comfy in khaki pants, a red and blue flannel, a navy blue puffer vest that matched his dad’s suit, and brown leather velcro shoes.
Last year on Ben’s birthday, Cohen called his son “my true delight,” adding: “I can’t imagine life without him.”
source: people.com
