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CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper Delivers a Moving Eulogy to his Mother, Gloria Vanderbilt

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Gloria Vanderbilt recently passed away at the age of 95. Her loving son, journalist and TV news anchor, Anderson Cooper, shared some of his feelings and thoughts in a touching eulogy.

Gloria Vanderbilt was an iconic woman, known around the world for her many talents and her beauty. She was an heiress to the Vanderbilt railroad fortune. She was married four times and gave birth to four sons. Her third marriage with Wyatt Cooper resulted in the birth of Anderson Cooper.

In Anderson’s eulogy, he talked about the significant part love had in his mother’s life: “Her private self, her real self, that was more fascinating and more lovely than anything she showed the public. And she was always in love. In love with men, or with friends, or books and art, in love with her children, and her grandchildren, and then her great-grandchildren. Love is what she believed in more than anything.”

In the 1980s, Gloria Vanderbilt was involved in painting, writing, acting, and designing. While her public face was something she was an expert in controlling, in her private life, she was a powerful and loving woman. Even when she had her trust broken countless times, she still pressed on to do better and learn from her mistakes.

Vanderbilt took the news of her advanced cancer in good faith, joking about it and saying “Well, it’s like that old song. Show me that way to get out of this world, because that’s where everything is.”

At the end of her life, Gloria was surrounded by people who loved her. Her son Cooper says that he used to tell her every day that he loved her. He ended his eulogy by remarking that “Gloria Vanderbilt was 95 years old when she died. What an extraordinary life. What an extraordinary mom. What an incredible woman.”

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