{"id":267438,"date":"2019-02-13T07:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1014657"},"modified":"2019-02-13T07:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T14:19:46","slug":"andy-cohen-reveals-the-first-photos-of-his-baby-boys-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/andy-cohen-reveals-the-first-photos-of-his-baby-boys-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Cohen Reveals the First Photos of His Baby Boy&#8217;s Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.010752688172\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019113\/rs_634x845-190213060622-andy-cohen-people.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Andy Cohen, People Magazine\" alt=\"Andy Cohen, People Magazine\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">People\/Mei Tao<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.984910836763\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/andy_cohen\">Andy Cohen<\/a><\/strong> has revealed the first photos of his son&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the\u00a0<em>Watch What Happens Live<\/em> host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/999712\/andy-cohen-welcomes-baby-boy-via-surrogate-find-out-his-meaningful-name\" target=\"_blank\">announced the arrival<\/a> of his baby boy,\u00a0<strong>Benjamin Allen Cohen<\/strong>.\u00a0&#8220;WOW! This is my son, Benjamin Allen Cohen. He is 9 lbs 2 ounces !!&#8221;\u00a0Cohen, who welcomed his son via a surrogate, wrote on Instagram. &#8220;20 inches !! Born at 6:35 pm, PT He is named after my grandfather Ben Allen. I&#8217;m in love. And speechless. And eternally grateful to an incredible surrogate. And I&#8217;m a dad. Wow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Cohen has shared several pictures with his son on social media, the baby&#8217;s face had been kept covered up, until now! Cohen and his son appear on the cover of this week&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/andy-cohen-son-benjamin-first-photos-people-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/em>\u00a0magazine, showing the father-son duo staring up at the camera.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>&#8220;This is my son!! I grew up reading @People cover to cover, at a time when being gay meant there was no way to have a family. Now I&#8217;m honored to be the first gay dad featured on the magazine&#8217;s cover,&#8221; Cohen wrote on social media alongside the cover picture.\u00a0&#8220;Thank you @mrjesscagle for sharing my story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201915\/rs_834x1024-190205080959-andy-cohen-baby-2.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Andy Cohen, Baby\" alt=\"Andy Cohen, Baby\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18\">\n<p>Inside the magazine, Cohen opens up about the birth of baby Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in the delivery room. I had been hoping that he would have a full head of hair, and he really overdelivered,&#8221; Cohen recalls. &#8220;That was the first thing you see, the head of hair coming out. And I was amazed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cohen, who cut the umbilical cord, went skin-to-skin with his baby boy shortly after his birth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was so alert for the first two hours. His eyes were wide open. He didn&#8217;t cry; he was just calm,&#8221; Cohen says. &#8220;I kind of have no words for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21\">\n<p>Explaining the process, Cohen tells <em>People<\/em> he &#8220;worked with an organization that helps you find the egg donor and the surrogate, and you kind of package the whole process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I worked with an incredible surrogate,&#8221; Cohen shares. &#8220;She was in California. Surrogacy is illegal in so many states, including New York. I don&#8217;t understand why. It&#8217;s a voluntary process, obviously. My surrogate just viewed it as, she was giving me the ultimate gift. She gave me life. So I&#8217;ll be forever indebted to her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cohen also joined NBC&#8217;s TODAY via video chat on Wednesday to talk about his son.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just sit and stare at him. I can&#8217;t get over his head of hair,&#8221;\u00a0Cohen said.\u00a0&#8220;He&#8217;s adorable, he&#8217;s so cute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"68.054229934924\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"26.824295010846\">\n<p>&#8220;I was in the delivery room. They cleaned him [Benjamin Cohen] up little bit, I took my shirt off, and they put him right there, and he was so alert,&#8221; Cohen went on to share.\u00a0&#8220;He wasn&#8217;t crying. His eyes were open, and we just stared at each other for about two hours, just looking at each other, and he was touching my face\u2026.it was just incredible, and I was hoping he was going to have a little hair on his head, and the kid&#8217;s already over delivering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cohen also added, &#8220;It&#8217;s not that easy for a single guy to do this on his own. It takes a village, as they say so I really wanted him, and the fact that he&#8217;s here and he&#8217;s so perfect and he&#8217;s in wonderful health and I have great gratitude for my surrogate and all the people who helped me get to this place and I&#8217;m just thrilled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more of Cohen&#8217;s interview, head on over to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/andy-cohen-son-benjamin-first-photos-people-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/em>. You can also pick up the cover story\u00a0on newsstands nationwide Friday, Feb. 15.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1014657\/andy-cohen-reveals-the-first-photos-of-his-baby-boy-s-face?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People\/Mei Tao Andy Cohen has revealed the first photos of his son&#8217;s face. Last week, the\u00a0Watch What Happens Live host announced the arrival of his baby boy,\u00a0Benjamin Allen Cohen.\u00a0&#8220;WOW! This is my son, Benjamin Allen Cohen. He is 9 lbs 2 ounces !!&#8221;\u00a0Cohen, who welcomed his son via a surrogate, wrote on Instagram. &#8220;20 inches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 06:36:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}