Call her mommy.
Alex Cooperconfirmed on Oct. 20 that she gave birth to her first child with husbandMatt Kaplan.
Though theCall Her Daddyhost kept much of the details private—including her baby’s name and birthday—she captioned her social media announcement with a blue heart, confirming she and Kaplan had welcomed a baby boy.
Accompanying the caption was a picture of her baby, his head just out of frame, bundled in a fuzzy blue outfit and lying on top of a matching blanket.
Cooper firstshared her pregnancyon May 17, posting a carousel of photos showing off her baby bump with the caption, “Our family.”
Ahead of her baby’s arrival, the Barstool Sports alum opened up about the moment she realized she was ready to be a mother. After her parents moved to Los Angeles to be closer to her, she had a revelation while sitting in a hot tub with Kaplan one night.
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“The only thing that feels like it’s truly missing right now is a child and starting our own family together and I have never felt more ready,” she recalled saying during the June 10 episode ofCall Her Daddy. “And when I said that out loud in that moment, it was such an exciting feeling, but also I don’t know how to describe it. Like, it almost felt just like such a calm feeling as well.”
Before this realization, Cooperpreviously sharedthat she was waiting to start a family so she could focus on her and Kaplan’s relationship while continuing to grow her career.
“Now almost two years later I lived, I did kind of, what feels like, everything I wanted to do,” she confessed,“and now I am pregnant and I couldn’t be happier.”
Indeed, Cooper and Kaplantied the knotin April 2024 during a beachside ceremony in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
“It was everything we wanted it to be,” the podcaster toldVogueat the time. “It was emotional, heartfelt, and we tailored it to exactly how we always envisioned it.”
Although she previously admitted she never planned on marrying, Cooper has been open about how her relationship with Kaplan changed her mind. After meeting the film producer on a Zoom call in 2020 during the pandemic, the influencer felt a strong connection.
“We went on a few dinner dates in L.A. and sat in parking lots, pandemic-style, and there was no doubt in my mind after the first dinner that he would be the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with,” she continued. “I’m extremely picky so this was big for me.”
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“There are no words to describe this feeling once again. What a blessing,” Cuoco—who’s also mom to daughter Matilda—shared on instagram. “We are so grateful for the crazy wild up and down journey that brought us to our little Philo! Family officially complete.”
The two are already parents to son Charvarius Ward Jr. as well as daughter Amani Joy, who died in 2024 at 23 months.
Hinting at their daughter’s birth date, the couple wrote on Instagram, “We took Labor Day literally this year.”
And yes, the couple did make a reference to their identical names when choosing a moniker for their new daughter Lennon Taylor Lautner.
“Hello. I’m your mama,” she recalled telling her baby in a Vogue essay. “You … you look nothing like I thought you would, but exactly right. We’ve been waiting for you, do you know that? It was so nice of you to come.”
A birth certificate obtained by E! News later revealed that their child—a girl named Rose Bean Polansky—was born on June 9 in Los Angeles.
“Okay so…Charlotte and I would like to announce that [we] have indeed created a Human Bean!” Ono Lennon wrote. “His name is, Aurelius! Thank you!”
“The baby was born weighing 6 pounds 9 ounces,” a statement read on the royal family’s official Instagram page, adding that King Charles III and Queen Camilla “were delighted to be informed of the news.”
“With a 2-week early grand entrance, we’d like to welcome Vincent John into the world,” Compono wrote on Instagram Aug. 3. “What originally was a checkup due to cramping led to a medically necessary induction due to low fluid (Oligo). Love you to bunches, my little Vinny boy.”
“What a great blessing to be able to share with you the arrival of our precious MYLA,” the couple wrote in a joint statement. “You can’t imagine the happiness we have at home.”
“She was supposed to be born August 26, and she was born July 19,” Tobin revealed, explaining how her surrogate had to induce labor due to preeclampsia. “The doctor was like, ‘You know what? At this point, the baby is cooked pretty nicely.'”
“These last couple of weeks have been chaos, but in the best possible way,” Mariano wrote in an Instagram post. “Welcome back home Rock-Anthony Makoa Ventimiglia. Can’t wait for all of the adventures ahead with our family of 5!”
“Feels like heaven on earth,” she captioned a July 1 video of her cradling the newborn. “Baby is here and healthy.”
Yes, the Love Is Blind couple gave their son what they described as a “three-dimensional name represented in two-dimensional space” when he was born on June 29.
The reveal of the unconventional moniker—an homage to three J-named family members—comes two years after the birth of their daughter Galileo Terri Rayne Goytowski.
“Our daughter has been the greatest gift,” they told People in an interview published June 23, “and we are loving getting to know her better with each passing day.”
“He’s heading to summer camp at NICU for the first 2/3 months in this world, but mom and dad can’t wait to bring him home hopefully soon,” Heavey wrote on Instagram. “Dad was a nervous, terrified, sobbing mess but couldn’t ask for a better first Father’s Day.”
“Baby boy is here,” she captioned Instagram photos of herself holding the newborn in the hospital after her C-section, “and we are so grateful and so in love.”
“House is full,” Barash—who also shares son Joaquin with Devoto and daughter Harper with ex-wife Kirsten Storms—wrote on Instagram. “Hearts fuller.”
“The process of us having a child took four or five years,” Hoying told People in an interview published June 23. “It’s been a long time coming and just looking at her, I started crying because it was just such a beautiful thing that I feel really, really lucky.”
“There were tears and anxiety was through the roof,” she noted about her pregnancy in an Apple Music interview published May 29. “It’s what I wanted but I was just like, ‘Wait, this real life, like am I really ready?’ But ultimately, obviously had her and I’m glad I made the decision to do it.”
“Suddenly the world just got a whole lot brighter,” Madeleine posted to Instagram June 2. “06.01.2026 4lbs and 17.2 inches. We love you so much and are so proud to be your parents x.”
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