“Call Her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper is getting candid about waiting to have a baby with her husband, Matt Kaplan.
“I just felt in my body that I want to grind at work and I want to be selfish a little longer. I wanna enjoy what I’ve worked so f***ing hard for,” Cooper, 30, admitted during a solo podcast episode released on Wednesday, June 4. “I wanna go on a weekend trip with my husband and f*** and have no responsibilities after the longest work week. I wanna throw Unwell parties after a million meetings that week — get on a plane and go fly and have drinks with the Daddy Gang.”
She added: “I wanna host events where we get to talk and connect and meet and celebrate everything we’ve built, which is this gorgeous, incredible community of women. So, this past year, that’s what I’ve been doing. I’ve been being selfish and I’ve been living.”
Cooper told listeners that she and Kaplan, 41, decided to start “trying to get pregnant” in summer 2024 — but things started to go awry when she went off birth control.
Initially, the podcast host felt “pretty normal” but started to get bouts of “extreme vertigo and dizziness” which was impacting her day-to-day life.
“I would pass out in the shower. I was so f***ing emotional all the time. It was frustrating,” Cooper recalled. “I just felt so out of control with what was happening to my body. I could tell something wasn’t right.”
Cooper started “spiraling” over her health, so she and Kaplan “put a pause” on pregnancy. Then the “doubts” started creeping in.
“As s***ty as all of this was, that things weren’t exactly going according to plan or our timeline, about getting pregnant, my career on the other hand had never been busier and never been bigger,” Cooper recalled. “I felt like I really had hit my stride in feeling so confident in running a company.”
She added, “At that time, I didn’t want to slow down and getting pregnant inevitably would mean I had to slow down.”
Cooper said these feelings started to “eat me alive” — and she had to tell Kaplan.
“I don’t know exactly when it hit me, but in the moments where I was being really honest with myself, which took a minute, but I eventually realized I wasn’t ready,” Cooper said. “When I got to feeling healthier again, as nice as that was, it didn’t make me want to rush and have a baby. Instead, it made me more anxious because I should have felt ready and I felt so frustrated with myself and I felt guilty.”
One night during dinner, Cooper “word-vomited” all her concerns to Kaplan.
“It always makes me emotional because I remember, I’m going on and on and on — like I do — and Matt literally grabbed me and put me on his lap,” she said, getting emotional. “He was like, ‘Look at me. Alex, how long have you been carrying [this]?’ He was like, ‘I love you so much. When it is the right time, it will be the right time. I love you and I will support you no matter f***ing what.’”
