May 4, 2022 • 46 mins
In honor of Andy having his second baby, we wanted to do a little congratulatory episode by re-releasing our previous convo, tune in!*This week we sit down with Andy Cohen to chat about parenting! Is choosing an egg donor like choosing a sperm donor? Did Andy do as much investigating as me? Does he have a favorite housewife? Tune in to find out!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Straw Media. Oh my god, hey y'all, thank you for
joining us for another episode of Genuinely Gigi. I am
here with my crazy cookie friend Anita, who apparently does
not know what a bong is.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I know what a bong is. I just thought that
there's I think I'm thinking of.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A hookah okay, okay, okay, if that makes sense. You're
thinking like.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It has like two yeah, sorry, okay, all kinds of stuff.
Have you ever as you think I am?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But have you ever taken a bong rip?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I think I did once in college from the pink Panther.
No I didn't, I thought I did. I didn't know
any of my friends have the pink panther and I
watched them do it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Give me your hand, God bless you. I know you
haven't smoked bong before because you just said you hid
it from right here.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh you don't. You put it from here?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah? No, you you got us, so you put the
weed right and then you do like this.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh my god, yes, no, no, I knew that. I knew that.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So no, it's you did not ever take a bomb
rep And for the next episode of Genuinely Gigi, Anita
will be taking bomb reps.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, oh my god, I don't know, my god, did
I just totally like, it's so crazy that I just
did it backwards. I don't know what I was thinking. Sorry,
but no, I did see my friends do the pink
panther in college the movie. No, it was a huge
pink panther bong. It was like up to here and
they were like.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The actual they call panther friends. But you don't know
how to hit upon. That's okay, that's okay. That is
as crazy as the next thing I'm about to say,
because the word on the street is honey. Ex MLB
player Ben Zobrist sorry has filed a lawsuit against his pastor,
(01:57):
claiming he had an affair with his wife they were
in marriage counseling. Okay, I want to I want to
understand that. So baseball player guy or whatever, doesn't matter
what it feels he's in. He just you know, he
goes to his pastor with his wife or clearly having
some marital issues. So they go to the pastor say,
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you know, fix it, Jesus, fix it Jesus, and the
pastor uses his tools literally to fix it, to fix
it or fix her. Maybe she was the issue. She
maybe she needed some day. But I'm just I'm saying,
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are I don't know? I know how nuns? You're not
allowed to have sex our pastors.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's what I said. I was gonna just say, I don't.
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But they're married. You can be married and be having
sex with your wife if you're a pastor, right or
is he not? Is that Catholic? I don't. I don't know.
I don't want to be like insulting.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I don't want to insulting either.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I thought like, if you're supposed to be, if you're
allowed to have sex, if you're a pastor with other
married women, for sure, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
For sure to know. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Who's suing God? He's gonna sue God because the pastor
is gonna say he's doing God's work. Who's this baseball
player guy suing?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
How did he even find out that this was going on?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That's another question, she Well, it's probably godly men. They
came forward and were like, I sinned. Forgive me, baseball player,
I have sinned.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know, like a game like, oh yeah, that would
be fun to have him as a guest and I
can ask him questions.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That would be fun the pastor. Yeah, yes, we should
definitely get that. Whoa I mean, do you lose your
like pastor license? How does that?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't even know what that. We have to do
some research on this. Actually, it's fucked up. It is.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
People are coming to you for help. They're coming to
you for guidance for some think right, literally fix it.
Help me. I'm coming to you a man of God.
You speak for the name of God, and in order
to show you know how he helps, he has sex
with his wife. Yeah, why are they having separate counseling sessions.
I thought it's marriage counseling maybe like private sessions.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
They had to have private sessions, but I'm sure it
went on like even just be all like sessions and
stuff too. And I'm wondering, like if he probably even
if he doesn't like get I'm sure they're gonna make
him quit, like retire, or he's gonna or something. I
don't think he's gonna out or he's just gonna have
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to because no one's gonna accept him or look at
him the same way. They're gonna be like, oh my God,
you've sinned, you've done this whatever. So he's probably definitely
out of being in the church. But but I really
don't I don't know if if they can be with
someone or not. I thought they're not supposed to be
in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, I know like priests like different churches that I've
been to, that the person the preacher is married, you know,
that's okay. I think that's okay if your your marriage
is okay in the name of God, and you're only
supposed to be sleeping with your wife because how else
are you supposed to have children?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So with that movie Keeping the Faith, I don't know
with Ben Stiller and.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's like, I'm not supposed to take a movie seriously
that you with Ben Stiller in it.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, I'm just wondering because I forget if the guy,
because I feel like the priest, he will, he will.
He liked the girl and the movie. Who is his name?
The guy from Primal Fear. Okay, it's a whole other topic.
Let's not let's just take this all out.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
This is.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Ryan what's his name Primal Fear. He's one of my
favorite actors. That's Edward Norton, And so ed Norton was
the priest and Ben Steeller was the rabbi and they
like the same girl of this.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But that's a comedy, Sweetheart. You cannot bring in comedy
with an actual woman that's trying to help her marriage
fucking her pastor and now the husband is suing. I'm
just curious of who he's suing. Well, that the part
it's I mean, he popped. Yeah, I wouldn't know he's
doing because the church is gonna be like, yeah, no,
(06:16):
you're not taking the church as many, you know what
I mean? So I don't that's all kinds of fucked up,
And I don't know. It's all kinds of all kinds
of effected up, all kinds effected up. But in better
news in the sports world, because that was not a
normal situation, in better news and in world history, breaking news.
(06:39):
A NFL football player NFL football. What I say NFL,
NFL means National Football League, right, so NFL National Football
League football. That would just be weird.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So that NFL player, NFL player called Nassip. He has
come out. He is the first active the open gay
man playing for the NFL. He is twenty eight years old.
He is a hundred levels of very hot and sexy
and he's gay, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how
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you make fucking history, and that is how you set
paths for people and you become something. And I just, yeah,
that's one hundred percent. That is amazing. That is amazing.
Like I hope it doesn't get weird for him, like
you know, how guys can be douchebags. But I feel
like in this day and age, I'm not going to
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pull the whole locker room situation or you know. But
then again, we have a lot of you know, wrong
people in this world that still do have certain views
and I don't know, I just what do you think
is gonna happen for him? Do you think he'll get
heat for it?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I think a little bit. I think I think he's
gonna be praised in a lot of ways because I
feel like this is not going to open the doors
for a lot more of the NFL player or any basketball,
any any athlete to come out. But I also feel like,
and it's going to go down to like high school
and college and different levels too that maybe kids will
be you know, students will feel more comfortable coming out
(08:13):
too and being like treated. So he's really paved the
road and opened up the door for a lot of people.
So again, more power to you, Carl, But I think
he will still I don't think people will be so
openly like weird to him. But I still think he
will be discriminated a little bit. But because there are
some of those guys on the team or athlete, you know, coaches, whatever,
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that are still going to have like some type of
reaction to that and maybe not be so okay with it.
I don't know. I hope to God not I hope,
but I think like because back in twenty I think
back in twenty fourteen, another NFL player had come out
something Michaels like Sam Michaels or something, and right before
the draft or during the draft, and then he got
(08:58):
picked and then he had to I think step down. Yeah,
So that was back in twenty fourteen. So this is
a really big deal. No, this is a really huge
deal because it is the league.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The league is actually accepting this. The league is saying
we are now fine with this because it's existed before,
it's just never been able to be talked about. And
I think we're in a culture now. Again I don't
talk about cancel culture, but we're in a culture now
that you can't just get away with mistreating people anymore,
and people are stepping up for it, and people are
(09:29):
taking public leaps that they have been so scared to take.
They are doing things that are always considered controversial and taboos,
and they're being more fearless and in their approach to life.
And I love that because it just it brings us
to what we want to talk about today with our guest,
which is mister Andy Cohen. I can't believe saying that.
(09:51):
I can't believe he's saying that, But we want to
talk about those leaps, such as him being a gay
man and saying I'm going to be a single father,
I'm going to get an egg donor, I'm going to
give myself a surrogate, and I'm gonna make myself a child.
And I mean, we have some similarities. I obviously don't
have the penis. We had a few different things. But
(10:13):
it is a brilliant situation. So let's go ahead and
bring them on. You know her from Shaws of Sunset.
You know she doesn't hold back. So shake your titties again.
Now that's not how you shook them.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's not shaking because it's seriously, like really tight have
a brace, but oh it's really tight, or else they
would be everywhere and they know and they're not like
like yours are like round and nice mine, they're like.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Mineer Giganda, Like I I cannot believe who I'm about
to introduce right now. Our guest today has so many
accomplishments that I wouldn't even know where to start. He
was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, but then decided to
head to Massachusetts, where he graduated from Boston University with
a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism. He began
(11:00):
his television career as an intern at CBS News and
would go on to spend another ten years with the network,
serving as a producer and senior producer of multiple shows.
But it was in two thousand and four that I'd
like to think his career was about to take off,
as he became the vice president of Original Programming a Bravo,
and in two thousand and six, he helped create a
(11:21):
show called The Real Housewives of Orange County, with nine
other cities to soon join the franchise. The Real Housewives
were a massive success, but his most noble success is
to Datar becoming the first openly gay host of a
late night talk show which he calls Watch What Happens Live,
where he showed the world what the definition of fun
hosting truly is. And his most other noble success would
(11:45):
be having his son Benjamin and the route he chose
to have him by using difficult and controversial methods such
as using an egg donor and surrogacy. He is a
New York Times best selling author. He's a producer, a host,
a great father, and he is one person who has
always been extremely accommodating to my hearing disability. Please give
a genuinely gigi. Welcome to the King of Reality TV,
(12:08):
mister Andy Collin, genuinely ggg.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
How are you good? How are you? That was a
great intro. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Oh you are you are? Really? I had such a
hard time writing your intro because I kept saying to Anita,
he has so much about him that I don't know
how I'm supposed to like keep it? How do I
condense that until a little. I am so excited to
have you. Thank you so much for being here. I'm
(12:42):
very nervous at.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
She hasn't slept and she hasn't something like too nice
for years.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know, but it's like it's always it's the other
way around, and I'm used to being, you know, in
your position. You ask me the questions, and to me,
I've always looked at you as that godfather, so it's
like there's always this level of respect. So for me
to want to, you know, ask you the tough questions,
it's just I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Know sure You're going to be great, and I'm thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh my gosh, Andy. I don't know if you remember
because it was a long time ago. Anita was on
the season one of Shaws of Sunset and I did
a bit of a karate chop to her face.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, I watched, and.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I feel like I have known you very personally for
a very long time, and not because I've been a
part of Shaws and Bravo for ten years now, but
because I was watching you and I was watching your shows.
You know, way before I was even on Shaws or
on TV, I was obsessed with reality TV. Like still
to this day, I watch every reality show out there.
(13:55):
But you have just turned something into something just so colossal,
and it's been so amazing because I joined shows in
twenty ten, so you had the franchise, the Housewives franchise.
But to see ten years, eleven years, now what you
turn that into. It's fucking awesome, Mandy. I love that.
(14:18):
I'm just I learned a lot from you, and that's
why I feel like I'm even more nervous because I
just have so many questions to ask you. But let's
just start with how's your son Ben? How's he doing?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Ben is great, He's adorable, and he is two and
five months and.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
He's great.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, has he started school?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
He was in a twes program that just ended.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
He was in it from first six from January until June,
so that was his first bit of socialization. And it
was I mean, I'm sure you can say the same thing.
I mean, the pandemic was kind of a blessing in
disguise because we got to spend so much time with
our kids.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, I agree, we're going to take a quick break.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But when we come back.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So we put we created an embryo using a sperm
and an egg, and then we just say and you
went the sarrogacy way of putting it into a different host. Yes,
was that a difficult process because in New York. It
was still illegal at that time, correct.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Correct, which is why I had been in California.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Elijah just turned one April twenty seventh. Isn't that Anderson
cooper Son's birthday April twenty seventh or is it?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Are this?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yes, it actually is.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That's Eliza's birthday too. They both had their kids, I
think because I remember seeing you posting for Anderson's son
and I was like, oh my god, the same birthday.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yes, let's do it joint birthdays some time birthdays although
we celebrate in spirit for sure, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So yeah, we're doing that the touring process right now.
We're touring schools and everyone keeps saying, oh, this is
the celebrity. I'm like, are you guys for real celebrity?
Like little daycare? Is that like a thing?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Crazy?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It is crazy, It's so crazy. Oh my gosh. You
used gestational surrogacy to have spent And for a lot
of people who don't know what that is is there's
traditional and there's gestational. Which traditional is that the woman
carrying the child is typically the biological mother. I guess
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you would say with gestational, which Andy did and I did.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, so we put we we created an embryo using
a sperm and an egg, and then we just and
you went the sarrogacy way of putting it into a
different host. Yes, was that a difficult process because in
New York it was still illegal at that time, correct.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Correct, Which is why I had been in California. You know,
he was he was carried and delivered in California, and
I had a wonderful surrogate there who I'm still in
touch with, and and and and during that process and
after that process, I worked very hard with Governor Cuomo
(17:27):
actually and and a whole team around him too, to
pass the legalization of surrogacy in New York State, which
is passed now thanks to great effort to him. And
it passed with a bill of rights for surrogates that
is really really groundbreaking and I think will be very
(17:52):
progressive and will be implemented in other states surrogacy laws.
It just gives way more part as to surrogates than
had been available in other states.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'm congratulations because I did see that it passed in
February in New York, and that is an amazing thing.
I think it should be people's choice to do that.
It's you know, my body if I want to do
that for Yeah, So congratulations, and I do hope that
all the states catch on and it can become a
federally legalized like cannabisity. So at which point did you
(18:30):
decide that I'm okay with being a single dad?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You know, I never really I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I just thought, well, I just thought that I didn't
want to wait until I fell in love. You know.
I was like, there are some things you can control
and there are some things you can't control. And I
can't control when I'm going to fall in love, but
I can control know to the best of my abilities
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that I want to begin the process of making this happen.
And so I also had the financial means that I
could do it on my own, and I think both
of those played a big part. I think if I
was at a different phase in my life where maybe
I couldn't afford it or I needed a partner to help,
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you know, because I also knew I did you know,
a budget, and I was like, Okay, well, I'm going
to be able to afford you know, to have someone
around to help me when I'm not around and all
that stuff. So it just seemed again like something that
I could I could control versus when I fall in love.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
I'm a finicky cat in terms of love me and
you know, I've.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Been in love twice and I hope that lightning strikes again,
but you never know.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And there you go, Yeah, I agree. It is very expensive.
Unfortunately it is, and it's lengthy, and it's it's it's
time consuming, and you do have to sort of have
that luxury of being able to take that time and
make the financial commitments. I know your steps were, you know,
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probably double than what mine were because I had to
freeze my eggs. Then I hired a company called Donor Concierge,
which I started fishing, you know, everywhere surrounding countries, this
whole nation for my type of sperm that I was
looking for. And it's just the weirdest process when we're building.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
What was that, Gigi wasn't for me, the whole process.
The hardest thing.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It was harder for me doing this than finding a
surrogon or anything. The hardest thing was choosing the egg
for me. And I have to assume choosing the sperm
was the hardest for you, because it's arguably the most
important decisions of our lives were choosing who the biological
you know.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Everything psychological there, everything is defined.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Wait, so this is an international you can go international.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Well, it depends on the companies that you hire, and
it depends on the neighboring countries that some companies work with.
But yeah, you know, and it depends on the financial
ability that you have to do that again with what
Andy says, it's it's literally the most difficult decision you'll
ever make. So I was okay with spending anything that
I have at the top of that because when you
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fall in love, you people say you create a child
out of love, right or because you're married and it's
time to do so, you don't necessarily think of what
the child's genetic composition is going to turn out to
be like because you're in love and that's all that matters,
you know. So having to actually create it, it's like
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going to that build a bear workshop, but it's like
that's your child. It was. It was exhausting, it was
it was very very I longed to take you.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Adam, you know what, I kept putting the decision aside.
I would start to do it, I would start to
look and I was like it was.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
It was.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And then I have to say a friend of mine,
a girlfriend of mine who had done it, gave me
some really good advice about just really looking at the
medical history and then.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Just kind of focusing.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
On that and and then figuring out what was important
to you and then kind of trying to depersonalize it
in a weird way, right, So that's that that was
very helpful.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, I had very specific criteria, of course, you know,
and you do. I did a psychev ou with the
company so they can understand me as well as understand
what I wanted, and they would thought would be good
mixes as well. But I I one of my you know, my, my,
what are you? What am I? My big things was
I wasn't accepting files that didn't have photographs without I'm
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not asking for you to tell us or anything what
your donor looks like, but was that a criteria for you?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Two?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Is that you see with the person and you know
what the person actually looks like physically.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
That was one of the things that was tripping me
up because it's just such a because you're looking at
a person, and so that was one of the things
that was kind of both a benefit and an obstacle
to me, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
With you, Yeah, it is because I saw genetic profiles
when it comes to diseases and their bat you know,
all the way to the grandparents and great grandparents and aunts, uncles,
and they were pristine. But then you look at their
picture and you're like, well, maybe if they pick up
more on my gene you know what I mean. So
I get it, but I was lucky to find the
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perfect one genetically. He's very, very handsome. But that sort
of leads me into my next question, is I'm still
trying to figure out how I'm going to do it
when Elijah asks me, or because he's watching these cartoons
now and he's reading the books now and the words
are starting to come out of his mouth and Daddy,
(24:18):
these are becoming more th Ben is older, So mama
mommy is a big thing in his cartoons and his books.
You know, Jimmy Fallon wrote a book called Mama, I
swear Eli goes around the whole house screaming, Mama, mama.
So what is that like for Ben? Has he referenced
anything or anyone as mommy.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
We haven't had that conversation. And no, it's been pretty simple.
And the good news is we've there are all kinds.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Of families that are around us.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
My best friend, his daughter, he was a single parent
when he had his daughter, and I know that he
told her, you know, that families come in all different informs,
and that he went about this on his own, and.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
That it it meant that he had to.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
You know, babies are made with an egg and a sperm,
and he had the sperm, and you know, so just
that he went to extraordinary She was so wanted.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
This is what he told her.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You know, that she was so wanted that he had
to go to extraordinary measures to get her. And that's
how he you know, he just kind of kept it
scientific and and and and the truth and that is
the truth. But we haven't had the conversation and I
haven't exactly figured out, you know, what it'll be, but
it'll be something along those lines.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah. And you you I saw you left you made
a cart that said you said you was sure son
was going to have a head full of hair and
that he over exceeded that. Yes, it's adorable. Did you
were you expecting more?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Less?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
What were you were you?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I was like, oh, I hope he has some hair.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
And then I was in the delivery room and the
and the the doctor turned to me and said, oh, oh,
you're going to be very happy, and that I went
over there and saw I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. So is Ben going
to be able to have contact with his donor or
is that going to it's completely anonymous.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I think that's a conversation for later.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, I'm trying to decide that as well. I'm trying
to figure out but.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
If you had contact with that person.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, mine is completely anonymous. But I have the file,
and the file has the photo and so much information,
And to me, that's do I hand him the file?
When do I hand him the file? If he says, Mom,
help me find him? What I think you?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I think you? H I think you left him guide
that conversation, you know, because who knows.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
It could be It could be he could be twenty
and he could finally say I wish you had a
picture of my biological you know, and then you could say, well,
I do do you want to see it?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
You know? So right, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
He'll offer it. So he knows he has access to
it when he gets a little bit older, then when
he's finally ready, if he's ready, then he would come
to you.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
So you think I should make it known that there's
access to I think so.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And then also is the agency, like if you call
them up, you could just be like, no, we want
access to the father, can we know? They have nothing?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So anonymous? And there's so many legal aspects to that.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
That there's you really have to find him yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Right right? And I did. I turned into private investigator
and a couple of days before I was about to
put the embryo inside of me, and I thought, what
if everything in this file is a lie and he's
a mass killer murderer and he's a psychopath.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
So wait, you went and you went and found the
guy secretly.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I found him.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Oh, it's not a secret any You had.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
A private investigator do that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I had a private investigator, Gigi, do that?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Right?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Wow? And then but you did not need him?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You just no, no, no, no, no, I don't ever And I'm
I I regret finding him. I regret I found everything
from Instagram to businesses, home every I found everything, and
I regret it. But I made a promise to myself
that I will never again go back and check and
I haven't so I because I don't want to. I
(28:44):
just wanted the reassurance that the file that I chose
to create my child I is going to be safe.
You know. That was all I really cared about. And
he was. He matched up to everything that he said
about himself and the file based on his Instagram. Oh
breath of fresh air. Breath of fresh shair. Oh my god,
We're going to take a quick break.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But when we come back, so with Chris Jenner having
the light detector test and confirming that Kim is indeed
her favorite child. Who is your current favorite housewife?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Oh my god? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So Andy, you said that you still keep in touch
with a Saragate, do you Is that something that you're
going to keep like a relationship with.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I mean, I hope so. I mean she's a very
important person in my family and.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
So absolutely, you know, I mean, it's it's surrogates.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Are they just are angels?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I mean they're they're they're they're providing something that is
an in I mean, I can't even put words around
what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Hard because it get attached to this child inside I.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Don't think so. I don't think so. I think it
would have been something I would be able to do
only if I didn't have autoimmune disease and it didn't
cause so many issues. I would I would definitely do that.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
See, I think I would it, like so attached.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Some people might And if you know that you would,
then it's not for you. I don't know it's not
for you.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Then we tried it.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Andy, if you had a preference and having another child,
we're involved. Would you would you like to take the
same approach with your significant other and have another child
or are you done having kids?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
No? I think it would be great, you know, I
think it would be I think it would be great
for everybody. I think it would be great for Ben
most specifically. I just think it would be great for Ben,
you know, to have a saibling. I grew up with
a sister. We were really close growing up, and you
had a sister growing up, and you you know, it's
you know, it's it's nice.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
It's a family, you know, and especially as a single dad.
I mean, so, yeah, it's definitely something that I think about.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, that would be so sweet to have a little
something for I saw you had a little dog sitting
day with Waka Watcha. Oh my god, I thought it
was and I thought, yeah, I thought it was Waka.
How was that?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
It was? Really? It was really sweet.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I mean it was like it was like being with
an X, you know who you're still in love with,
but you know that you had to break up, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Would you would you ever consider getting another dog?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, I would, just one that I knew. You know
that the breed was absolutely kid friendly.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yes, sure, that's exactly what I did. I was four
months pregnant when I got my Rottweiler Jaja, but I
did so much research about breeds and knowing her pedigree
all the way to her grandparents, Like just like my sperm.
It helps in knowing what you're getting. I mean, I
hate to compare it to a dog, but it really does,
because if it's around a baby and I have two cats,
(32:03):
it's I can't take that risk. I can't take that risk.
Oh Andy, I would love to see you get a puppy.
And I am so so so grateful for you doing
this and letting me get a little bit of taste
of who Andy Cohen is. You know what I mean?
Because I have so many questions when I see you
and we're always working and we're doing a shaw's of
(32:24):
sense at a Bravo stuff. So it was cool to
get you to take a few steps away and answer
some of my personal questions about your life.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
You bet well.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I love seeing your evolution as a mom, and I
also just.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Want to commend you for doing it on your own.
I mean, how did you just before I go? How
did you know that that was the right time for you.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I think it was just I realized that I'm not
the relationship type and I didn't need to be in
love to have something that I know I've always wanted,
which was a child. So again, if I get a
partner in my life, that would be a plus, but
the child was something I needed to have, and I
got my life together emotionally, psychologically, my health was getting better,
(33:06):
and I thought, you know what, now I have the
money right now to be able to afford this. I'm
just going to do it. I'm just going to do it.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
So do you do you have other mbo's hosting?
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Look at this?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I love this. I keep going, what is it? Do
I win?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Do you have other embryos?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I do? I?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Okay? So I wash. It all happened last season. I
was pregnant. I had a rupture because of sek accident.
It went into my Philippine tubes. I got both my
Philippine tubes removed. Three months later. Pregnant, I had five
grade like AA embryos because for people who don't know,
your embryos go through like a testing process if you want.
(33:52):
I waited. I grew my embryos the ten days we
tested it for genetics, and I ended up getting five
supreme ones. I lost the one obviously, and then Elijah's
the other one. So I have three on ice? Is
that weird to say? On It's vodkast God? Yeah, three frozen.
(34:13):
But I think I'm okay with having no more kids.
I think I'm okay with my son and I My
health got worse because of my loss of pregnancy, so
I'm dealing with my ari as if it just started
all over again. So I'm okay right now, just enjoying.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
But for selfish reasons, I want her to have another one.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
You need to have one, Andy, Do you know any good,
nice successful Jewish men for Anita?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Isn't how I'm okay. I'm a past the jewish thing.
At this point, I'll tell you whatever.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I gotta think about it. I gotta think about it.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
You think about it. Anita has a game for you.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I have a game. You have a game. Okay, so
it's called forgive me. I have sinned? Okay. So with
Chris Jenner having the light detector test and confirming that
Kim is indeed her favorite child, who is your current
favorite housewife?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Oh my god? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Oh my god, I'm so.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
It changes every minute. And also that's major HR issue.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
That is it ship?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
We are.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Speaking of Chris Jenner. Phenomenal, phenomenal interview you did for
the hosting of that way amazing. Sorry, go back to
going back. We just got in trouble with HR.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Okay, so I cannot let me let me okay this
this one, this one might be an HR issue to
why okay with with okay, from all your gifts you
have received from your guests on the show.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
They're not just housewives everyone, okay, okay, okay, what is
your ver a gift that you've received us in their clubhouse?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
What's the most prized gift that you've received?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Uh? The shot ski from Jimmy fallon.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, I thought you were going to say Lady Gaga's urine.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yeah, that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
I got a knife from that. It's still in there. Yeah. Yeah.
So there's a lot of great stuff. A disco ball
from Mariah Carey.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Oh gosh, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
We want to start doing that too. Back here, a
disco bo no clubhouse thing.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Like I'm going to start to stopf like I was
inspired by your clubhouse. I was like, let's just do
it the way Andy does his clubhouse, and let's make
a game like Andy makes a game.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yeah, okay, yeah, we kind of want to be you.
I have like more questions, but should do it?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
No? No, no, no, wrap it up?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I wish what should we do? There's so many good.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Wrap it up? Okay, fine Andy, Andy, I know you
have an amazing UH station on Serious x Sam. I
love it. I always tune in. It's called Andy's Keeky Lounge.
So I would love if everyone can check out Andy's
Keeky Lounge.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And I have a I have a I have a
music channel and a talk channel.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
One O, one and three twelve. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I love your stuff. I love your stuff. I've always
loved you. Thank you so much for doing this. I
appreciate it. I'm still learning from you. I can't wait
to see you again on Watch Happens Live, brab coming out.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Your reunion relatively soon to see you reunion.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
And the last thing I wanted to say sorry to
switch gears is I wanted to send my condolences to
you for your friend Andy Newman. About that. I know
that was a bit of a you know, unfortunate situation.
So I'm sorry. Thank you so much for doing this Andy.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Thanks guys, got great to see you.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Bye bye, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Next time see I'm gonna light this joint.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I'm so nervous.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Did a great job.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
It was good.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
God.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
More fun questions, Oh my god, I really wanted to
ask him. There one that would have been fun. Oh
and then the Shaws one. We had so many good questions.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
You, Anita, you came over here last night, we decided
exactly what you were going to ask, and for some reason,
you completely went off script. I did you were supposed
to ask the Shaws thing at the end, Yeah, but I.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Didn't ask it because you said that was my next question.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
No I didn't. You're like, oh, I have so many
questions and I have no You only had one question left.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
To ask, had the Aretha Franklin one?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
We only talked about three that were confirmed. Good God,
I'm sitting here trying to impress mister Cohen, and you
got me all sorts of fucked up in the game. Girl,
do you want to smoke this? No? But that was
fucking cool.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
No, man, that was great. He loved he loved Listen.
Did you see him flip his glasses off when you
asked that question? He was like fuck because he never
he couldn't answer it.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I thought he would.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I thought I didn't know it would be an HR issue.
I hope he's not saying that to get out. I
think he is.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
There's no way because even if he says.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
That, he doesn't really say that, because then if there
is a difference in that maybe what if that person
gets a different paycheck or that person gets a different contract.
When they're going to say it's because it's Andy's, you know, favorite,
it's different to say one of your children are your favorite,
especially when Hello, it's obvious that Kim Kardashian was Chris
Jenner's favorite. She's the biggest money maker until Kylie came along.
(39:54):
So now Kylie is actually Chris's favorite.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
And what's the light he checked her test done?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
That was before Kylie was a billionaire. Kylie was like
ten years old at that time.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No, no, no, no, no no. Everyone even says Kylie's the favorite.
Even Kim says Kylie's now the favorite. So yeah, that
was not an HR issue. It's in the family. I
guess Andy could not give that to us. I know
who my favorite of all the housewives are. I mean
well depends if, okay, is it my favorite from watching
(40:27):
them on TV or from like interactions in person from both.
From from from TV, you would have to be Ramona
from Housewives of New York because she's just she's just
so authentically herself, good or bad. Okay, trust me. The
woman's got all kinds of bad things about her as
(40:49):
well as her good. But she's just so authentically herself
and I just respect that. Lee's favorite is the bitch
that just got fired Kelly what fraud dog?
Speaker 3 (41:01):
What?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Oh dog? Yes that one?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Okay, I could guess you brought it up, didn't Yeah?
I could?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Oh my gosh, Well that was great to have Andy on.
I was really wanting to know a lot of those
questions about his surrogacy and egg donor concept because it's
different for different people. You know, he got the egg donor,
and I've what I've heard is it's a hundred times
harder to find an egg donor than it is to
(41:33):
find a sperm donor. You know, I feel like a
bunch of guys in college are all just going and
you know, jizzy and tubes because money.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, it's for them. It's not sentiment.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
It's just yeah, it means nothing. For a woman, it's
a bunch of injections. It's taking hormones. I did it.
I did egg freezing. It's the same concept. It was
not easy. Three needles in the stomach every day, so
it's a lot harder, and it makes me so much
happier to see that people are able to take this
route and I actually have this information I want to share. Okay, So,
(42:05):
because this sarrogacy and donor situation is very, very expensive,
and a lot of families are out there not doing
it because of the luxury of doing it the way
I did or Andy did, but because they have medical
difficulties conceiving or having children, have poor sperm, poor eggs,
cannot create embryos, can't hold embryos. There is a company
(42:27):
called babyquest dot com and they help with fertility grants.
Oh yeah, so that's a really good thing. Yeah it is.
I didn't even know that that existed when I did
my process, but yeah, that's really great.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
But he was like, I don't know. He was like,
he just seems like such a great father, and he's like, yeah,
and it's cool that he wants to bring another one
into the world. And I agree, And I think that's
nice to have siblings. It's really important. And that's why
keep trying to push you to kind of take that
route to.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Do another one. You have such a good relationship with
your sister, Yes, you really do have that, And I mean,
I love my sister and we're fine, you know. But
I think that for me, if I were younger, I
would maybe consider having a sibling for Elijah, but I
think that, I mean, I'm a boss to be forty
(43:21):
and having a second one it's not something for me
because I think my autoimmune disease is really kicked in
full fledged and seeing how how impaired I am because
of it, and I have to always have a nanny
here or one of my parents here to help me
because if I'm in too much pain and I can't
(43:42):
help my own son. So right now, it's more of
a fear to have a second child. I'm like, oh
my god, how would I even give any part of
myself to one of these kids? So I'm going to
take a backseat to that. I don't have any Filippian tubes,
so I can have as much sex as possible and
I won't. You're pregnant, so I think.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
It's been like three years, so I think it's time
to have sex.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Yeah, my god, you have no idea. You really have
no idea, I do. Have you ever gone three years?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
I think I'm I think I'm close to that, are you?
I don't even know? I think I no, I definitely
at well, COVID has been like a year and a half.
COVID right, COVID has and it'll be March. Okay, Yeah,
I'm like maybe like two years, a little over tires,
so I'm not far behind.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Oh my god, have you ever thought about doing the
speed dating thing?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (44:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Wait? Oh when you sit on the table and you
go around yes, that still that doesn't even happen anymore.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
There's no way, well because of COVID, but I mean,
I don't know it still happens. I was.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
I dated it up.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Oh really, I looked it up. They do it at
clubs and like fancy restaurants. So once it works out,
you stay either for the lounge and have drinks with
the person you matched with, or you stay the restaurant
and have a dinner with a person.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
I will do it if you do it with me.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Well, that's the only reason why I'm asked you down.
I'm down. Should we take the microphones with us?
Speaker 5 (45:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (45:09):
And the camera, the camera and yeah, can you guys
picture her speed dating? I feel like it's gonna like,
what are you gonna what do you have a couple
of minutes to Okay, we're going way off. So we're
gonna have another episode that we're gonna go into speed dating.
That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk about speed dating,
and we're gonna write down what our questions are going
to be for our people, and we're gonna do them
(45:30):
to each other. Or maybe we should bring someone in,
a guy in and you could practice.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
I could practice on him. You could bring a speed
dating coach if there is one exist.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
She's name, yes, my dear, you see you see, this
is what it is. This is what it is. You guys,
thank you for tuning in to another episode of Genuinely.
If you loved us, rate us, review it, subscribe to it.
We love you guys so much. I am so appreciative
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(46:01):
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Straw Media. Oh my god, hey y'all, thank you for
joining us for another episode of Genuinely Gigi. I am
here with my crazy cookie friend Anita, who apparently does
not know what a bong is.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I know what a bong is. I just thought that
there's I think I'm thinking of.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A hookah okay, okay, okay, if that makes sense. You're
thinking like.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It has like two yeah, sorry, okay, all kinds of stuff.
Have you ever as you think I am?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
But have you ever taken a bong rip?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I think I did once in college from the pink Panther.
No I didn't, I thought I did. I didn't know
any of my friends have the pink panther and I
watched them do it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Give me your hand, God bless you. I know you
haven't smoked bong before because you just said you hid
it from right here.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh you don't. You put it from here?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah? No, you you got us, so you put the
weed right and then you do like this.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh my god, yes, no, no, I knew that. I knew that.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So no, it's you did not ever take a bomb
rep And for the next episode of Genuinely Gigi, Anita
will be taking bomb reps.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, oh my god, I don't know, my god, did
I just totally like, it's so crazy that I just
did it backwards. I don't know what I was thinking. Sorry,
but no, I did see my friends do the pink
panther in college the movie. No, it was a huge
pink panther bong. It was like up to here and
they were like.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The actual they call panther friends. But you don't know
how to hit upon. That's okay, that's okay. That is
as crazy as the next thing I'm about to say,
because the word on the street is honey. Ex MLB
player Ben Zobrist sorry has filed a lawsuit against his pastor,
(01:57):
claiming he had an affair with his wife they were
in marriage counseling. Okay, I want to I want to
understand that. So baseball player guy or whatever, doesn't matter
what it feels he's in. He just you know, he
goes to his pastor with his wife or clearly having
some marital issues. So they go to the pastor say,
(02:21):
you know, fix it, Jesus, fix it Jesus, and the
pastor uses his tools literally to fix it, to fix
it or fix her. Maybe she was the issue. She
maybe she needed some day. But I'm just I'm saying,
(02:42):
are I don't know? I know how nuns? You're not
allowed to have sex our pastors.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's what I said. I was gonna just say, I don't.
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But they're married. You can be married and be having
sex with your wife if you're a pastor, right or
is he not? Is that Catholic? I don't. I don't know.
I don't want to be like insulting.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I don't want to insulting either.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I thought like, if you're supposed to be, if you're
allowed to have sex, if you're a pastor with other
married women, for sure, that's.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
For sure to know. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Who's suing God? He's gonna sue God because the pastor
is gonna say he's doing God's work. Who's this baseball
player guy suing?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
How did he even find out that this was going on?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That's another question, she Well, it's probably godly men. They
came forward and were like, I sinned. Forgive me, baseball player,
I have sinned.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You know, like a game like, oh yeah, that would
be fun to have him as a guest and I
can ask him questions.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That would be fun the pastor. Yeah, yes, we should
definitely get that. Whoa I mean, do you lose your
like pastor license? How does that?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I don't even know what that. We have to do
some research on this. Actually, it's fucked up. It is.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
People are coming to you for help. They're coming to
you for guidance for some think right, literally fix it.
Help me. I'm coming to you a man of God.
You speak for the name of God, and in order
to show you know how he helps, he has sex
with his wife. Yeah, why are they having separate counseling sessions.
I thought it's marriage counseling maybe like private sessions.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
They had to have private sessions, but I'm sure it
went on like even just be all like sessions and
stuff too. And I'm wondering, like if he probably even
if he doesn't like get I'm sure they're gonna make
him quit, like retire, or he's gonna or something. I
don't think he's gonna out or he's just gonna have
(04:38):
to because no one's gonna accept him or look at
him the same way. They're gonna be like, oh my God,
you've sinned, you've done this whatever. So he's probably definitely
out of being in the church. But but I really
don't I don't know if if they can be with
someone or not. I thought they're not supposed to be
in a relationship.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, I know like priests like different churches that I've
been to, that the person the preacher is married, you know,
that's okay. I think that's okay if your your marriage
is okay in the name of God, and you're only
supposed to be sleeping with your wife because how else
are you supposed to have children?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So with that movie Keeping the Faith, I don't know
with Ben Stiller and.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's like, I'm not supposed to take a movie seriously
that you with Ben Stiller in it.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, I'm just wondering because I forget if the guy,
because I feel like the priest, he will, he will.
He liked the girl and the movie. Who is his name?
The guy from Primal Fear. Okay, it's a whole other topic.
Let's not let's just take this all out.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
This is.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Ryan what's his name Primal Fear. He's one of my
favorite actors. That's Edward Norton, And so ed Norton was
the priest and Ben Steeller was the rabbi and they
like the same girl of this.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
But that's a comedy, Sweetheart. You cannot bring in comedy
with an actual woman that's trying to help her marriage
fucking her pastor and now the husband is suing. I'm
just curious of who he's suing. Well, that the part
it's I mean, he popped. Yeah, I wouldn't know he's
doing because the church is gonna be like, yeah, no,
(06:16):
you're not taking the church as many, you know what
I mean? So I don't that's all kinds of fucked up,
And I don't know. It's all kinds of all kinds
of effected up, all kinds effected up. But in better
news in the sports world, because that was not a
normal situation, in better news and in world history, breaking news.
(06:39):
A NFL football player NFL football. What I say NFL,
NFL means National Football League, right, so NFL National Football
League football. That would just be weird.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So that NFL player, NFL player called Nassip. He has
come out. He is the first active the open gay
man playing for the NFL. He is twenty eight years old.
He is a hundred levels of very hot and sexy
and he's gay, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how
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you make fucking history, and that is how you set
paths for people and you become something. And I just, yeah,
that's one hundred percent. That is amazing. That is amazing.
Like I hope it doesn't get weird for him, like
you know, how guys can be douchebags. But I feel
like in this day and age, I'm not going to
(07:35):
pull the whole locker room situation or you know. But
then again, we have a lot of you know, wrong
people in this world that still do have certain views
and I don't know, I just what do you think
is gonna happen for him? Do you think he'll get
heat for it?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I think a little bit. I think I think he's
gonna be praised in a lot of ways because I
feel like this is not going to open the doors
for a lot more of the NFL player or any basketball,
any any athlete to come out. But I also feel like,
and it's going to go down to like high school
and college and different levels too that maybe kids will
be you know, students will feel more comfortable coming out
(08:13):
too and being like treated. So he's really paved the
road and opened up the door for a lot of people.
So again, more power to you, Carl, But I think
he will still I don't think people will be so
openly like weird to him. But I still think he
will be discriminated a little bit. But because there are
some of those guys on the team or athlete, you know, coaches, whatever,
(08:37):
that are still going to have like some type of
reaction to that and maybe not be so okay with it.
I don't know. I hope to God not I hope,
but I think like because back in twenty I think
back in twenty fourteen, another NFL player had come out
something Michaels like Sam Michaels or something, and right before
the draft or during the draft, and then he got
(08:58):
picked and then he had to I think step down. Yeah,
So that was back in twenty fourteen. So this is
a really big deal. No, this is a really huge
deal because it is the league.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The league is actually accepting this. The league is saying
we are now fine with this because it's existed before,
it's just never been able to be talked about. And
I think we're in a culture now. Again I don't
talk about cancel culture, but we're in a culture now
that you can't just get away with mistreating people anymore,
and people are stepping up for it, and people are
(09:29):
taking public leaps that they have been so scared to take.
They are doing things that are always considered controversial and taboos,
and they're being more fearless and in their approach to life.
And I love that because it just it brings us
to what we want to talk about today with our guest,
which is mister Andy Cohen. I can't believe saying that.
(09:51):
I can't believe he's saying that, But we want to
talk about those leaps, such as him being a gay
man and saying I'm going to be a single father,
I'm going to get an egg donor, I'm going to
give myself a surrogate, and I'm gonna make myself a child.
And I mean, we have some similarities. I obviously don't
have the penis. We had a few different things. But
(10:13):
it is a brilliant situation. So let's go ahead and
bring them on. You know her from Shaws of Sunset.
You know she doesn't hold back. So shake your titties again.
Now that's not how you shook them.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's not shaking because it's seriously, like really tight have
a brace, but oh it's really tight, or else they
would be everywhere and they know and they're not like
like yours are like round and nice mine, they're like.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Mineer Giganda, Like I I cannot believe who I'm about
to introduce right now. Our guest today has so many
accomplishments that I wouldn't even know where to start. He
was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, but then decided to
head to Massachusetts, where he graduated from Boston University with
a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism. He began
(11:00):
his television career as an intern at CBS News and
would go on to spend another ten years with the network,
serving as a producer and senior producer of multiple shows.
But it was in two thousand and four that I'd
like to think his career was about to take off,
as he became the vice president of Original Programming a Bravo,
and in two thousand and six, he helped create a
(11:21):
show called The Real Housewives of Orange County, with nine
other cities to soon join the franchise. The Real Housewives
were a massive success, but his most noble success is
to Datar becoming the first openly gay host of a
late night talk show which he calls Watch What Happens Live,
where he showed the world what the definition of fun
hosting truly is. And his most other noble success would
(11:45):
be having his son Benjamin and the route he chose
to have him by using difficult and controversial methods such
as using an egg donor and surrogacy. He is a
New York Times best selling author. He's a producer, a host,
a great father, and he is one person who has
always been extremely accommodating to my hearing disability. Please give
a genuinely gigi. Welcome to the King of Reality TV,
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mister Andy Collin, genuinely ggg.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
How are you good? How are you? That was a
great intro. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Oh you are you are? Really? I had such a
hard time writing your intro because I kept saying to Anita,
he has so much about him that I don't know
how I'm supposed to like keep it? How do I
condense that until a little. I am so excited to
have you. Thank you so much for being here. I'm
(12:42):
very nervous at.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
She hasn't slept and she hasn't something like too nice
for years.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know, but it's like it's always it's the other
way around, and I'm used to being, you know, in
your position. You ask me the questions, and to me,
I've always looked at you as that godfather, so it's
like there's always this level of respect. So for me
to want to, you know, ask you the tough questions,
it's just I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Know sure You're going to be great, and I'm thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh my gosh, Andy. I don't know if you remember
because it was a long time ago. Anita was on
the season one of Shaws of Sunset and I did
a bit of a karate chop to her face.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, I watched, and.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I feel like I have known you very personally for
a very long time, and not because I've been a
part of Shaws and Bravo for ten years now, but
because I was watching you and I was watching your shows.
You know, way before I was even on Shaws or
on TV, I was obsessed with reality TV. Like still
to this day, I watch every reality show out there.
(13:55):
But you have just turned something into something just so colossal,
and it's been so amazing because I joined shows in
twenty ten, so you had the franchise, the Housewives franchise.
But to see ten years, eleven years, now what you
turn that into. It's fucking awesome, Mandy. I love that.
(14:18):
I'm just I learned a lot from you, and that's
why I feel like I'm even more nervous because I
just have so many questions to ask you. But let's
just start with how's your son Ben? How's he doing?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Ben is great, He's adorable, and he is two and
five months and.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
He's great.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, has he started school?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
He was in a twes program that just ended.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
He was in it from first six from January until June,
so that was his first bit of socialization. And it
was I mean, I'm sure you can say the same thing.
I mean, the pandemic was kind of a blessing in
disguise because we got to spend so much time with
our kids.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, I agree, we're going to take a quick break.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But when we come back.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So we put we created an embryo using a sperm
and an egg, and then we just say and you
went the sarrogacy way of putting it into a different host. Yes,
was that a difficult process because in New York. It
was still illegal at that time, correct.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Correct, which is why I had been in California.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Elijah just turned one April twenty seventh. Isn't that Anderson
cooper Son's birthday April twenty seventh or is it?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Are this?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yes, it actually is.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
That's Eliza's birthday too. They both had their kids, I
think because I remember seeing you posting for Anderson's son
and I was like, oh my god, the same birthday.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yes, let's do it joint birthdays some time birthdays although
we celebrate in spirit for sure, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
So yeah, we're doing that the touring process right now.
We're touring schools and everyone keeps saying, oh, this is
the celebrity. I'm like, are you guys for real celebrity?
Like little daycare? Is that like a thing?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Crazy?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It is crazy, It's so crazy. Oh my gosh. You
used gestational surrogacy to have spent And for a lot
of people who don't know what that is is there's
traditional and there's gestational. Which traditional is that the woman
carrying the child is typically the biological mother. I guess
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you would say with gestational, which Andy did and I did.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah, so we put we we created an embryo using
a sperm and an egg, and then we just and
you went the sarrogacy way of putting it into a
different host. Yes, was that a difficult process because in
New York it was still illegal at that time, correct.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Correct, Which is why I had been in California. You know,
he was he was carried and delivered in California, and
I had a wonderful surrogate there who I'm still in
touch with, and and and and during that process and
after that process, I worked very hard with Governor Cuomo
(17:27):
actually and and a whole team around him too, to
pass the legalization of surrogacy in New York State, which
is passed now thanks to great effort to him. And
it passed with a bill of rights for surrogates that
is really really groundbreaking and I think will be very
(17:52):
progressive and will be implemented in other states surrogacy laws.
It just gives way more part as to surrogates than
had been available in other states.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'm congratulations because I did see that it passed in
February in New York, and that is an amazing thing.
I think it should be people's choice to do that.
It's you know, my body if I want to do
that for Yeah, So congratulations, and I do hope that
all the states catch on and it can become a
federally legalized like cannabisity. So at which point did you
(18:30):
decide that I'm okay with being a single dad?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You know, I never really I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I just thought, well, I just thought that I didn't
want to wait until I fell in love. You know.
I was like, there are some things you can control
and there are some things you can't control. And I
can't control when I'm going to fall in love, but
I can control know to the best of my abilities
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that I want to begin the process of making this happen.
And so I also had the financial means that I
could do it on my own, and I think both
of those played a big part. I think if I
was at a different phase in my life where maybe
I couldn't afford it or I needed a partner to help,
(19:24):
you know, because I also knew I did you know,
a budget, and I was like, Okay, well, I'm going
to be able to afford you know, to have someone
around to help me when I'm not around and all
that stuff. So it just seemed again like something that
I could I could control versus when I fall in love.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
I'm a finicky cat in terms of love me and
you know, I've.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Been in love twice and I hope that lightning strikes again,
but you never know.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And there you go, Yeah, I agree. It is very expensive.
Unfortunately it is, and it's lengthy, and it's it's it's
time consuming, and you do have to sort of have
that luxury of being able to take that time and
make the financial commitments. I know your steps were, you know,
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probably double than what mine were because I had to
freeze my eggs. Then I hired a company called Donor Concierge,
which I started fishing, you know, everywhere surrounding countries, this
whole nation for my type of sperm that I was
looking for. And it's just the weirdest process when we're building.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
What was that, Gigi wasn't for me, the whole process.
The hardest thing.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
It was harder for me doing this than finding a
surrogon or anything. The hardest thing was choosing the egg
for me. And I have to assume choosing the sperm
was the hardest for you, because it's arguably the most
important decisions of our lives were choosing who the biological
you know.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Everything psychological there, everything is defined.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Wait, so this is an international you can go international.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Well, it depends on the companies that you hire, and
it depends on the neighboring countries that some companies work with.
But yeah, you know, and it depends on the financial
ability that you have to do that again with what
Andy says, it's it's literally the most difficult decision you'll
ever make. So I was okay with spending anything that
I have at the top of that because when you
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fall in love, you people say you create a child
out of love, right or because you're married and it's
time to do so, you don't necessarily think of what
the child's genetic composition is going to turn out to
be like because you're in love and that's all that matters,
you know. So having to actually create it, it's like
(21:50):
going to that build a bear workshop, but it's like
that's your child. It was. It was exhausting, it was
it was very very I longed to take you.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Adam, you know what, I kept putting the decision aside.
I would start to do it, I would start to
look and I was like it was.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
It was.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And then I have to say a friend of mine,
a girlfriend of mine who had done it, gave me
some really good advice about just really looking at the
medical history and then.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Just kind of focusing.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
On that and and then figuring out what was important
to you and then kind of trying to depersonalize it
in a weird way, right, So that's that that was
very helpful.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, I had very specific criteria, of course, you know,
and you do. I did a psychev ou with the
company so they can understand me as well as understand
what I wanted, and they would thought would be good
mixes as well. But I I one of my you know, my, my,
what are you? What am I? My big things was
I wasn't accepting files that didn't have photographs without I'm
(23:05):
not asking for you to tell us or anything what
your donor looks like, but was that a criteria for you?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Two?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Is that you see with the person and you know
what the person actually looks like physically.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
That was one of the things that was tripping me
up because it's just such a because you're looking at
a person, and so that was one of the things
that was kind of both a benefit and an obstacle
to me, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
With you, Yeah, it is because I saw genetic profiles
when it comes to diseases and their bat you know,
all the way to the grandparents and great grandparents and aunts, uncles,
and they were pristine. But then you look at their
picture and you're like, well, maybe if they pick up
more on my gene you know what I mean. So
I get it, but I was lucky to find the
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perfect one genetically. He's very, very handsome. But that sort
of leads me into my next question, is I'm still
trying to figure out how I'm going to do it
when Elijah asks me, or because he's watching these cartoons
now and he's reading the books now and the words
are starting to come out of his mouth and Daddy,
(24:18):
these are becoming more th Ben is older, So mama
mommy is a big thing in his cartoons and his books.
You know, Jimmy Fallon wrote a book called Mama, I
swear Eli goes around the whole house screaming, Mama, mama.
So what is that like for Ben? Has he referenced
anything or anyone as mommy.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
We haven't had that conversation. And no, it's been pretty simple.
And the good news is we've there are all kinds.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Of families that are around us.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
My best friend, his daughter, he was a single parent
when he had his daughter, and I know that he
told her, you know, that families come in all different informs,
and that he went about this on his own, and.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
That it it meant that he had to.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
You know, babies are made with an egg and a sperm,
and he had the sperm, and you know, so just
that he went to extraordinary She was so wanted.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
This is what he told her.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You know, that she was so wanted that he had
to go to extraordinary measures to get her. And that's
how he you know, he just kind of kept it
scientific and and and and the truth and that is
the truth. But we haven't had the conversation and I
haven't exactly figured out, you know, what it'll be, but
it'll be something along those lines.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah. And you you I saw you left you made
a cart that said you said you was sure son
was going to have a head full of hair and
that he over exceeded that. Yes, it's adorable. Did you
were you expecting more?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Less?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
What were you were you?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I was like, oh, I hope he has some hair.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
And then I was in the delivery room and the
and the the doctor turned to me and said, oh, oh,
you're going to be very happy, and that I went
over there and saw I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. So is Ben going
to be able to have contact with his donor or
is that going to it's completely anonymous.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I think that's a conversation for later.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, I'm trying to decide that as well. I'm trying
to figure out but.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
If you had contact with that person.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, mine is completely anonymous. But I have the file,
and the file has the photo and so much information,
And to me, that's do I hand him the file?
When do I hand him the file? If he says, Mom,
help me find him? What I think you?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I think you? H I think you left him guide
that conversation, you know, because who knows.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
It could be It could be he could be twenty
and he could finally say I wish you had a
picture of my biological you know, and then you could say, well,
I do do you want to see it?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
You know? So right, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
He'll offer it. So he knows he has access to
it when he gets a little bit older, then when
he's finally ready, if he's ready, then he would come
to you.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
So you think I should make it known that there's
access to I think so.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And then also is the agency, like if you call
them up, you could just be like, no, we want
access to the father, can we know? They have nothing?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So anonymous? And there's so many legal aspects to that.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
That there's you really have to find him yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Right right? And I did. I turned into private investigator
and a couple of days before I was about to
put the embryo inside of me, and I thought, what
if everything in this file is a lie and he's
a mass killer murderer and he's a psychopath.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
So wait, you went and you went and found the
guy secretly.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I found him.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Oh, it's not a secret any You had.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
A private investigator do that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I had a private investigator, Gigi, do that?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Right?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Wow? And then but you did not need him?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You just no, no, no, no, no, I don't ever And I'm
I I regret finding him. I regret I found everything
from Instagram to businesses, home every I found everything, and
I regret it. But I made a promise to myself
that I will never again go back and check and
I haven't so I because I don't want to. I
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just wanted the reassurance that the file that I chose
to create my child I is going to be safe.
You know. That was all I really cared about. And
he was. He matched up to everything that he said
about himself and the file based on his Instagram. Oh
breath of fresh air. Breath of fresh shair. Oh my god,
We're going to take a quick break.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But when we come back, so with Chris Jenner having
the light detector test and confirming that Kim is indeed
her favorite child. Who is your current favorite housewife?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Oh my god? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So Andy, you said that you still keep in touch
with a Saragate, do you Is that something that you're
going to keep like a relationship with.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I mean, I hope so. I mean she's a very
important person in my family and.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
So absolutely, you know, I mean, it's it's surrogates.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Are they just are angels?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I mean they're they're they're they're providing something that is
an in I mean, I can't even put words around
what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Hard because it get attached to this child inside I.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Don't think so. I don't think so. I think it
would have been something I would be able to do
only if I didn't have autoimmune disease and it didn't
cause so many issues. I would I would definitely do that.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
See, I think I would it, like so attached.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Some people might And if you know that you would,
then it's not for you. I don't know it's not
for you.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Then we tried it.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Andy, if you had a preference and having another child,
we're involved. Would you would you like to take the
same approach with your significant other and have another child
or are you done having kids?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
No? I think it would be great, you know, I
think it would be I think it would be great
for everybody. I think it would be great for Ben
most specifically. I just think it would be great for Ben,
you know, to have a saibling. I grew up with
a sister. We were really close growing up, and you
had a sister growing up, and you you know, it's
you know, it's it's nice.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
It's a family, you know, and especially as a single dad.
I mean, so, yeah, it's definitely something that I think about.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, that would be so sweet to have a little
something for I saw you had a little dog sitting
day with Waka Watcha. Oh my god, I thought it
was and I thought, yeah, I thought it was Waka.
How was that?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
It was? Really? It was really sweet.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I mean it was like it was like being with
an X, you know who you're still in love with,
but you know that you had to break up, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Would you would you ever consider getting another dog?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, I would, just one that I knew. You know
that the breed was absolutely kid friendly.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yes, sure, that's exactly what I did. I was four
months pregnant when I got my Rottweiler Jaja, but I
did so much research about breeds and knowing her pedigree
all the way to her grandparents, Like just like my sperm.
It helps in knowing what you're getting. I mean, I
hate to compare it to a dog, but it really does,
because if it's around a baby and I have two cats,
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it's I can't take that risk. I can't take that risk.
Oh Andy, I would love to see you get a puppy.
And I am so so so grateful for you doing
this and letting me get a little bit of taste
of who Andy Cohen is. You know what I mean?
Because I have so many questions when I see you
and we're always working and we're doing a shaw's of
(32:24):
sense at a Bravo stuff. So it was cool to
get you to take a few steps away and answer
some of my personal questions about your life.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
You bet well.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I love seeing your evolution as a mom, and I
also just.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Want to commend you for doing it on your own.
I mean, how did you just before I go? How
did you know that that was the right time for you.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I think it was just I realized that I'm not
the relationship type and I didn't need to be in
love to have something that I know I've always wanted,
which was a child. So again, if I get a
partner in my life, that would be a plus, but
the child was something I needed to have, and I
got my life together emotionally, psychologically, my health was getting better,
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and I thought, you know what, now I have the
money right now to be able to afford this. I'm
just going to do it. I'm just going to do it.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
So do you do you have other mbo's hosting?
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Look at this?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I love this. I keep going, what is it? Do
I win?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Do you have other embryos?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I do? I?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Okay? So I wash. It all happened last season. I
was pregnant. I had a rupture because of sek accident.
It went into my Philippine tubes. I got both my
Philippine tubes removed. Three months later. Pregnant, I had five
grade like AA embryos because for people who don't know,
your embryos go through like a testing process if you want.
(33:52):
I waited. I grew my embryos the ten days we
tested it for genetics, and I ended up getting five
supreme ones. I lost the one obviously, and then Elijah's
the other one. So I have three on ice? Is
that weird to say? On It's vodkast God? Yeah, three frozen.
(34:13):
But I think I'm okay with having no more kids.
I think I'm okay with my son and I My
health got worse because of my loss of pregnancy, so
I'm dealing with my ari as if it just started
all over again. So I'm okay right now, just enjoying.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
But for selfish reasons, I want her to have another one.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
You need to have one, Andy, Do you know any good,
nice successful Jewish men for Anita?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Isn't how I'm okay. I'm a past the jewish thing.
At this point, I'll tell you whatever.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I gotta think about it. I gotta think about it.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
You think about it. Anita has a game for you.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I have a game. You have a game. Okay, so
it's called forgive me. I have sinned? Okay. So with
Chris Jenner having the light detector test and confirming that
Kim is indeed her favorite child, who is your current
favorite housewife?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Oh my god? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Oh my god, I'm so.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
It changes every minute. And also that's major HR issue.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
That is it ship?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
We are.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Speaking of Chris Jenner. Phenomenal, phenomenal interview you did for
the hosting of that way amazing. Sorry, go back to
going back. We just got in trouble with HR.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Okay, so I cannot let me let me okay this
this one, this one might be an HR issue to
why okay with with okay, from all your gifts you
have received from your guests on the show.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
They're not just housewives everyone, okay, okay, okay, what is
your ver a gift that you've received us in their clubhouse?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
What's the most prized gift that you've received?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Uh? The shot ski from Jimmy fallon.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, I thought you were going to say Lady Gaga's urine.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yeah, that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
I got a knife from that. It's still in there. Yeah. Yeah.
So there's a lot of great stuff. A disco ball
from Mariah Carey.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Oh gosh, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
We want to start doing that too. Back here, a
disco bo no clubhouse thing.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Like I'm going to start to stopf like I was
inspired by your clubhouse. I was like, let's just do
it the way Andy does his clubhouse, and let's make
a game like Andy makes a game.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yeah, okay, yeah, we kind of want to be you.
I have like more questions, but should do it?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
No? No, no, no, wrap it up?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I wish what should we do? There's so many good.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Wrap it up? Okay, fine Andy, Andy, I know you
have an amazing UH station on Serious x Sam. I
love it. I always tune in. It's called Andy's Keeky Lounge.
So I would love if everyone can check out Andy's
Keeky Lounge.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And I have a I have a I have a
music channel and a talk channel.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
One O, one and three twelve. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I love your stuff. I love your stuff. I've always
loved you. Thank you so much for doing this. I
appreciate it. I'm still learning from you. I can't wait
to see you again on Watch Happens Live, brab coming out.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Your reunion relatively soon to see you reunion.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
And the last thing I wanted to say sorry to
switch gears is I wanted to send my condolences to
you for your friend Andy Newman. About that. I know
that was a bit of a you know, unfortunate situation.
So I'm sorry. Thank you so much for doing this Andy.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Thanks guys, got great to see you.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Bye bye, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Next time see I'm gonna light this joint.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I'm so nervous.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Did a great job.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
It was good.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
God.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
More fun questions, Oh my god, I really wanted to
ask him. There one that would have been fun. Oh
and then the Shaws one. We had so many good questions.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
You, Anita, you came over here last night, we decided
exactly what you were going to ask, and for some reason,
you completely went off script. I did you were supposed
to ask the Shaws thing at the end, Yeah, but I.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Didn't ask it because you said that was my next question.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
No I didn't. You're like, oh, I have so many
questions and I have no You only had one question left.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
To ask, had the Aretha Franklin one?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
We only talked about three that were confirmed. Good God,
I'm sitting here trying to impress mister Cohen, and you
got me all sorts of fucked up in the game. Girl,
do you want to smoke this? No? But that was
fucking cool.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
No, man, that was great. He loved he loved Listen.
Did you see him flip his glasses off when you
asked that question? He was like fuck because he never
he couldn't answer it.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I thought he would.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
I thought I didn't know it would be an HR issue.
I hope he's not saying that to get out. I
think he is.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
There's no way because even if he says.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
That, he doesn't really say that, because then if there
is a difference in that maybe what if that person
gets a different paycheck or that person gets a different contract.
When they're going to say it's because it's Andy's, you know, favorite,
it's different to say one of your children are your favorite,
especially when Hello, it's obvious that Kim Kardashian was Chris
Jenner's favorite. She's the biggest money maker until Kylie came along.
(39:54):
So now Kylie is actually Chris's favorite.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
And what's the light he checked her test done?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
That was before Kylie was a billionaire. Kylie was like
ten years old at that time.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No, no, no, no, no no. Everyone even says Kylie's the favorite.
Even Kim says Kylie's now the favorite. So yeah, that
was not an HR issue. It's in the family. I
guess Andy could not give that to us. I know
who my favorite of all the housewives are. I mean
well depends if, okay, is it my favorite from watching
(40:27):
them on TV or from like interactions in person from both.
From from from TV, you would have to be Ramona
from Housewives of New York because she's just she's just
so authentically herself, good or bad. Okay, trust me. The
woman's got all kinds of bad things about her as
(40:49):
well as her good. But she's just so authentically herself
and I just respect that. Lee's favorite is the bitch
that just got fired Kelly what fraud dog?
Speaker 3 (41:01):
What?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Oh dog? Yes that one?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Okay, I could guess you brought it up, didn't Yeah?
I could?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Oh my gosh, Well that was great to have Andy on.
I was really wanting to know a lot of those
questions about his surrogacy and egg donor concept because it's
different for different people. You know, he got the egg donor,
and I've what I've heard is it's a hundred times
harder to find an egg donor than it is to
(41:33):
find a sperm donor. You know, I feel like a
bunch of guys in college are all just going and
you know, jizzy and tubes because money.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, it's for them. It's not sentiment.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
It's just yeah, it means nothing. For a woman, it's
a bunch of injections. It's taking hormones. I did it.
I did egg freezing. It's the same concept. It was
not easy. Three needles in the stomach every day, so
it's a lot harder, and it makes me so much
happier to see that people are able to take this
route and I actually have this information I want to share. Okay, So,
(42:05):
because this sarrogacy and donor situation is very, very expensive,
and a lot of families are out there not doing
it because of the luxury of doing it the way
I did or Andy did, but because they have medical
difficulties conceiving or having children, have poor sperm, poor eggs,
cannot create embryos, can't hold embryos. There is a company
(42:27):
called babyquest dot com and they help with fertility grants.
Oh yeah, so that's a really good thing. Yeah it is.
I didn't even know that that existed when I did
my process, but yeah, that's really great.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
But he was like, I don't know. He was like,
he just seems like such a great father, and he's like, yeah,
and it's cool that he wants to bring another one
into the world. And I agree, And I think that's
nice to have siblings. It's really important. And that's why
keep trying to push you to kind of take that
route to.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Do another one. You have such a good relationship with
your sister, Yes, you really do have that, And I mean,
I love my sister and we're fine, you know. But
I think that for me, if I were younger, I
would maybe consider having a sibling for Elijah, but I
think that, I mean, I'm a boss to be forty
(43:21):
and having a second one it's not something for me
because I think my autoimmune disease is really kicked in
full fledged and seeing how how impaired I am because
of it, and I have to always have a nanny
here or one of my parents here to help me
because if I'm in too much pain and I can't
(43:42):
help my own son. So right now, it's more of
a fear to have a second child. I'm like, oh
my god, how would I even give any part of
myself to one of these kids? So I'm going to
take a backseat to that. I don't have any Filippian tubes,
so I can have as much sex as possible and
I won't. You're pregnant, so I think.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
It's been like three years, so I think it's time
to have sex.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Yeah, my god, you have no idea. You really have
no idea, I do. Have you ever gone three years?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
I think I'm I think I'm close to that, are you?
I don't even know? I think I no, I definitely
at well, COVID has been like a year and a half.
COVID right, COVID has and it'll be March. Okay, Yeah,
I'm like maybe like two years, a little over tires,
so I'm not far behind.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Oh my god, have you ever thought about doing the
speed dating thing?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (44:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Wait? Oh when you sit on the table and you
go around yes, that still that doesn't even happen anymore.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
There's no way, well because of COVID, but I mean,
I don't know it still happens. I was.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
I dated it up.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Oh really, I looked it up. They do it at
clubs and like fancy restaurants. So once it works out,
you stay either for the lounge and have drinks with
the person you matched with, or you stay the restaurant
and have a dinner with a person.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
I will do it if you do it with me.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Well, that's the only reason why I'm asked you down.
I'm down. Should we take the microphones with us?
Speaker 5 (45:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (45:09):
And the camera, the camera and yeah, can you guys
picture her speed dating? I feel like it's gonna like,
what are you gonna what do you have a couple
of minutes to Okay, we're going way off. So we're
gonna have another episode that we're gonna go into speed dating.
That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk about speed dating,
and we're gonna write down what our questions are going
to be for our people, and we're gonna do them
(45:30):
to each other. Or maybe we should bring someone in,
a guy in and you could practice.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
I could practice on him. You could bring a speed
dating coach if there is one exist.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
She's name, yes, my dear, you see you see, this
is what it is. This is what it is. You guys,
thank you for tuning in to another episode of Genuinely.
If you loved us, rate us, review it, subscribe to it.
We love you guys so much. I am so appreciative
to all our guests, to all of our audience, I
(46:01):
love this girl and we are going speed dating, speed
dating hand rating. Bye. Thanks for listening to Genuinely Gigi.
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