{"id":649050,"date":"2026-05-17T19:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:11:09","slug":"call-her-daddy-podcast-host-alex-cooper-announces-pregnancy-with-1st-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649050\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; podcast host Alex Cooper announces pregnancy with 1st child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Cooper, the host of one of the most popular podcasts in the United States, announced Sunday that she is expecting her first child.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; host shared the news in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYcNSWLjsjV\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram post<\/a> that showed her in a white crop top and sweatpants while looking at her husband, producer Matt Kaplan. Cooper and Kaplan tied the knot in April 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our family,&#8221; Cooper wrote, along with a white heart emoji.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cooper also shared the post on her Instagram story, along with a more candid selfie of herself and Kaplan. In another post, she joked that she was &#8220;honestly happy&#8221; to &#8220;finally stop trying to hide the bump.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cooper did not share a due date or any other information about her pregnancy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gettyimages-2276122448.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"YouTube Brandcast Event at Lincoln Center \" height=\"930\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan attend the YouTube Brandcast event at Lincoln Center on May 13, 2026 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>                Noam Galai<\/p>\n<p>Cooper&#8217;s &#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; podcast has over 2.1 million subscribers on YouTube, while Cooper herself has over 7.2 million followers on Instagram. Cooper was also the subject of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/alex-cooper-call-her-daddy-boston-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent Hulu documentary<\/a> &#8220;Call Her Alex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most &#8220;Call Her Daddy&#8221; listeners are Gen Z and millennial women, according to CBS Boston. The program features frequent celebrity guests, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kamala-harris-call-her-daddy-childless-cat-ladies-jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">former Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> during her 2024 run for president. Conversations on the podcast often cover relationships, celebrity gossip and pop culture. The conversation with Harris focused on women&#8217;s issues, which Cooper said was the topic she as a podcaster was most qualified to ask about, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/call-her-daddy-kamala-harris-podcast-alex-cooper\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to CBS Boston<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Cooper, the host of one of the most popular podcasts in the United States, announced Sunday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,11282],"class_list":["post-649050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}