Andy Cohen's 2 Kids: All About Benjamin and Lucy

Mar. 15, 2025

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When he’s not hostingWatch What Happens Live!,Andy Cohenis relishing his role as a dad.

“Family means everything to meand having one of my own is something that I have wanted in my heart for my entire life,” Cohen said in 2018, shortly before his son Ben’s birth. “Though it’s taken me longer than most to get there, I cannot wait for what I envision will be the most rewarding chapter yet.”

Cohen, who was 50 when his son Ben was born, also said that he’d “never thought it would be possible” for him to have a family.

“When I was growing up and when we were growing up … I just never thought it would be possible as a gay man to grow up and have a family,” he continued. “… I’m so grateful to a wonderful surrogate that I’m working with.”

Cohen even wrote a book on parenting,The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up, andspoke about his experiencewhile promoting the book in May 2023. “I’m the only gay parent at Ben’s nursery school and the only single parent,” Cohen told his longtime friendAnderson Cooper, noting that he is “so grateful” for their friendship “because Ben sees Wyatt with two dads, and Ben’s other friend, Adrian, has two dads.”

The father-of-two added that “[Ben] has been saying lately, ‘I want another daddy, I want another daddy.’ And it’s so cool to me that he knows that it would be a daddy.”

Here’s everything to know about Andy Cohen’s two kids.

Benjamin Allen Cohen, 6

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Cohen’s first child,Benjamin, was born via surrogateon Feb. 4, 2019, in Los Angeles. He is named after Cohen’s grandfather, Ben Allen.

In the same interview, he spoke briefly about surrogacy. “I worked with an incredible surrogate,” he said. “My surrogate just viewed it as, she was giving me the ultimate gift. She gave me life. So I’ll be forever indebted to her.”

The proud dad has sharedplenty of photos of Ben on Instagram, including snapshots of hisfirst Halloween costume(he was Woodstock to Cohen’s Snoopy) and his secondHanukkah celebrationin 2020.

In May 2020, Cohen opened up to PEOPLE about life at home with then-15-month-old Ben during the COVID-19 pandemic. “He’s walking nowin a way that I can take him out on the street for walks, so that’s a totally new thing,” he shared. “I wish that I could take him to the playground, but I just can’t yet, so I love taking him out on walks.”

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Of course, Ben’s spent plenty of time withhis dad’s BFF, Cooperand his children. Cohen and Ben wereamong the first to meet Cooper’s younger son, Sebastian Maisani-Cooper, who Ben dubbed “Wheels.”

Cohen also shared that his son and Cooper’s older son, Wyatt Maisani-Cooper, became fast friends. “We go over there every Saturday or Sunday for a visit. It’s great, Anderson and I are basically just killing time between our kids' naps at this point.It’s great to see them,” Cohen shared in a 2021 interview with PEOPLE.

Ben became an older brother when his sister Lucy Eve Cohen was born in May 2022. Cohenshared a picture of the toddler planting a gentle kiss on his sister’s cheek, along with the caption, “When Ben met Lucy.”

In March 2023, Ben seemingly accidentally spilled milk in the kitchen, making a mess of the cabinets and floors.Cohen documented his then-4-year-old cleaning up the spillon his Instagram Story, saying in a video, “What did you do, Buddy? How did you get the milk there?” Then, he sternly told his son, “You spilled it? Is this the way you want to start the day? Huh?” — a response that Cohen later said prompted “a lot of DMs from people saying I was wrongly shaming Ben for spilling milk.”

In a later Instagram video, Cohen admitted to “shaming” his son, saying, “You know, the truth is, it was three hours into my day, I’m jetlagged. I probably was shaming him. Walk a mile in my shoes, what can I tell you? I did it.”

Lucy Eve Cohen, 2

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Cohen’s second child,Lucy Eve Cohen, was bornon April 29, 2022, in New York City. The proud father of two shared a photo on Instagram of himself cradling the infant, and thanked his “rock star surrogate and everyone who helped make this miracle happen.”

Lucy entered the world with plenty of fans, includingCooperand his kids, as well as her older brother, Ben.

At just 5 months old,she made an appearance at BravoConin October 2022. Cohen spoke briefly about fatherhood at the event and revealed he often turns to palsSarah Jessica Parkerand Ripa for parenting help. “Kelly found me a nanny, Sarah Jessica found me a nanny. They have both been so helpful.”

He also shared some parenting advice of his own: “Get help. Just try to be present,” he said. “Figure out your relationship with your phone. Try to have fun. And get help.”

Cohen is having fun as a father of two, often posting funny moments on Instagram. In August 2022, heshared a postcontrasting then-3-year-old Ben’s outfit that the toddler picked out himself (a pair of joggers printed with dinosaurs which he paired with a Nike tank top) with then-3-month-old Lucy’s outfit of a colorful floral onesie, which Cohen called “flawless.”

In November 2022, Cohen opened up about some ofthe changes that came with being a father of two. He shared that he’s had a “total shift in priority” toward staying home with them, whereas before parenthood he was “not someone who ever stayed at home.”

He also spoke about having to manage his time differently. “Just when I think I’ve had a lot of really quality time with Ben, I have to go to Lucy and sit with her and I just want to look in her face and I want her to see me and hear my voice and know that I’m here,” he explained. “It’s just about juggling time management with the two of them.”

In July 2023,Cohen shared photoson his Instagram Story of him and Lucy striking a pose during their Independence Day celebrations. In one picture, the father-daughter duo smiled for the camera, in the next, they playfully stuck their tongues out at each other.

Two months later, Cohen postedanother cute photoof himself and his daughter, only this time they posed in Cohen’sWatch What Happens Livestudio.

“She’s already looking at me like I’m nuts,” Cohen wrote in theInstagram caption.

“Lucy is Two! It is so exciting getting to know my daughter; she’s a smart, funny sweetheart who surprises me every day,” he wrote in his caption. “And the female energy Lucy is shining all over this house is welcome and needed! It’s getting really fun over here! Marking time through the filter of my children’s growth is blowing my mind at this later stage of my life.”

source: people.com