Andy Cohen is keeping his kids out of the spotlight.
The Bravo executive explained why he stopped showing son Benjamin’s face on social media — and plans to soon do the same for daughter Lucy — in his Today.com interview, published Wednesday.
“The last time I showed Ben’s face was when I got my star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame [in February 2022],” Cohen, 55, said of the 4-year-old.
As for Lucy, 1, he clarified, “I’m teetering towards not showing [her] anymore. I just feel funny about it.
“People need to understand that my kids are not me and they didn’t sign up for this,” the “Watch What Happens Live” host continued. “I’m figuring it out as I go.”
The radio personality noted that his mom, Evelyn Cohen, has been “really on [him] about it” and “very vocal” in her opinions.
“She’s really like, ‘You have to stop. … ‘OK, you can’t show Ben anymore. When are you going to stop showing Lucy?’” Andy explained.
Andy Cohen feels “funny” about showing his kids’ faces on social media.
The Bravo executive stopped showing 4-year-old son Ben last year.
He is “teetering” on doing the same for 1-year-old daughter Lucy.
Elsewhere in the interview, the proud dad gushed that love for his little ones has helped him ignore negativity on social media.
“If I go on Twitter at any given moment, it’s a battlefield about politics, or people telling me that I messed up a show completely, or that I’m this, that, or the other,” Cohen said. “But … I don’t give a f–k what anyone’s saying about me on Twitter.”
He added, “Today … I was like, ‘Ben, I love you.’ He goes, ‘However many stars there are in the sky is how much I love you.’ And I’m set. … This little boy loves me for as many stars as there are? The rest doesn’t really matter!”
The “WWHL” host’s mom has been pressuring him to stop.Justin J. Wee/Today
The Emmy winner welcomed his son via surrogate in February 2019 in Los Angeles.
Lucy, who joined the family three years later, was “one of the first” babies born via gestational carrier in New York after the practice was legalized.
The toddlers are “biological siblings,” Cohen said in a June 2022 “Jeff Lewis Live” interview, saying he had a “couple” embryos he was open to his children using one day.
Cohen welcomed Ben and Lucy in 2019 and 2022, respectively.Justin J. Wee/Today
Since becoming a father, Cohen has bonded with many of the Real Housewives over parenthood.
“When we’re on breaks from reunions, we’re sitting there waiting, getting touched up and stuff, and we all talk about our kids and about parenting,” he said in Wednesday’s profile.
“It’s opened up a portal to the way they parent that I never used to care about very much, frankly.”
