For the release of a documentary on their lives, Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper sat down with Vogue in 2016 to discuss their relationship and the making of the film. In honor of Gloria Vanderbilt, we are republishing this story today.
Anderson Cooper has been worrying about his mom’s stuff for most of his life. “She never throws anything away,” he explains. A few feet away, Gloria Vanderbilt smiles adoringly at her son. “It’s true,” she agrees. “I still have the love letter from my first boyfriend when I was thirteen.”
Anderson Cooper is a busy man. Weeknights, he anchors his own newscast on CNN. Other times, he’s on the road, around the world, gathering material for stories. But on the rare weekend off, he can be found in one of those basements, sorting through his mother’s stuff, a determined archaeologist on an emotional dig. It’s a job that requires patience and a sense of humor. “You open a box,” he says, “and there’s a chandelier; then you open another box, and there’s a box of cornflakes from 1953.
Never underestimate the power of a well-connected friend. One day Cooper mentioned the idea of a documentary to Sheila Nevins, who then mentioned it to documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus, who was riding a wave of critical success for her Academy Award–nominated film on the life of Nina Simone. “At first I thought, Gloria Vanderbilt?” Garbus says. “Hasn’t that story been told?” But when she started looking deeper, she saw that, in fact, there were many chapters in Vanderbilt’s saga.
As if that explains everything! In a way, it kind of does. Vanderbilt’s own mother was eighteen when she gave birth to Gloria. Soon after, she took off for a months-long voyage with husband Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, leaving their infant child to be raised by a beloved Irish nanny—Dodo, a reassuringly solid silhouette who appears again and again in Vanderbilt’s paintings. Within two years, Reginald had died, but the young Mrs. Vanderbilt’s parenting skills never improved much.
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