As we mourn the loss of Gloria Vanderbilt we take a look inside her unconventional mother-son relationship with Anderson Cooper.
In Cooper and Vanderbilt's revealing 2016 book revolving around their personal emails to one another,, Cooper wrote about what it was like growing up with Vanderbilt as his mother.
Cooper has said that both he and his mother struggled with the weight of their famous family. In a 2016 interview with, Cooper admitted in the early days of his career, he didn't want to be attached to the Vanderbilt name. His mother was famous at an early age due to being in the middle of an intense custody battle between her mother and her late father's sister, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Vanderbilt's father was financier Reginald Vanderbilt, the heir to a railroad fortune.
"We were part of the conversation," he noted."We were at the dinner table. There wasn't a kids table. My mom took us everywhere." When Vanderbilt developed a respiratory infection in 2015 and became seriously ill for the first time in her life, her relationship with Cooper took another turn. The journalist said he realized he wanted to know his mother on a more personal level while she was still alive, and the two began emailing one another. The deeply personal emails became the basis for their 2016 book. In, Cooper notes that the emails had the effect of"bringing us closer than either of us had ever thought possible.
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