Andy Cohen Introduces Baby Benjamin, Opens Up About The Surrogacy Process
Andy Cohen is one happy dad, and we couldn’t be prouder of him!
In a new interview with People, the Bravo host opened up about the first time he met his baby boy, Benjamin Allen Cohen, born February 4 via surrogate.
“I was in the delivery room. I had been hoping that he would have a full head of hair, and he really overdelivered,” he joked. “That was the first thing you see, the head of hair coming out. And I was amazed.”
After Andy “cut the umbilical cord” himself, doctors cleaned Benjamin off and brought him over to the new dad, who then went skin-to-skin with his newborn for the first time. “He was so alert for the first two hours. His eyes were wide open. He didn’t cry; he was just calm. I kind of have no words for it.”
Andy worked with an organization that helps find an egg donor and the surrogate, where you kind of package the whole process.
“I worked with an incredible surrogate,” he explained. “She was in California. Surrogacy is illegal in so many states, including New York. I don’t understand why. It’s a voluntary process, obviously. 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.”
Read more at People.