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Andy Cohen has a new addition to his family, his baby girl Lucy Even Cohen.
The Bravo personality, 53, welcomed his second child to the world on Friday.
“HERE’S LUCY!!!! Meet my daughter, Lucy Eve Cohen! She’s 8 pounds 13 oz and was born at 5:13 pm in New York City!!!” Cohen wrote on an Instagram post that also features a picture of him holding baby Lucy.
“Her big brother can’t wait to meet her! Thank you to my rock star surrogate (ALL surrogates are rockstars, by the way) and everyone who helped make this miracle happen. I’m so happy,” he added.
Anderson Cooper commented, congratulating his friend on the new bundle of joy: “Amazing! Congratulations! Welcome Lucy!!!!” he wrote.
Cohen welcomed his first child, his son Benjamin Allen, who was born via surrogate on Feb. 4, 2019.
Cohen previously told PEOPLE he “didn’t want to wait” any longer to become a father, even if it meant he would have to do so as a single parent.
“It’s not something in your mind — ‘Oh, I want to do this alone.’ But I like being alone,” he explained. “I didn’t want to wait. To me, it would have to be a very special person to say, ‘Let’s do this together.’ And I would love that, and that person could be having coffee down the street at this moment and I’ll meet him soon.”
Cohen also said that he “always knew [he] wanted a family,” but “as a gay man, I never thought it was in the cards for me.”
“When I came out to my parents in 1988, my mom said she had to mourn the life that I wasn’t going to be able to have. And that life meant getting married and having kids,” he continued.
“[At that time] people were dying of AIDS; [that’s] what was happening in the gay community. So all these years later, gay men are raising families and getting married. There were points where I thought that it was too late for me or that I was really focused on my career, and I was having too much fun to think about it. It was still there nagging at me in the back of my head.”
“Turning 50 also played a big part. I just realized that now was the time. From the time I decided, ‘Okay, I’m doing this,’ which was December 2017, for the entire year of 2018 I lived my life as though it was my last year on the planet,” Cohen continued. “I knew that I was turning a page on that chapter in my life. It’s not to say that I can’t go to a party anymore, but things are changing.”
In 2019, Cohen revealed on SiriusXM Radio Andy’s Jeff Lewis Live that he had “at least one” more embryo left, after the birth of his son.
“I’m thinking about it,” said the Watch What Happens Live host at the time after Jeff Lewis asked whether there was a “baby cooking right now.”
