Alex Cooper Announces Pregnancy and First Child With Matt Kaplan

American podcaster Alex Cooper announced she is pregnant and expecting her first child with her husband, film producer Matt Kaplan, sharing the news in an Instagram post posted on May 17. In the photos, Cooper, 31, is shown cradling her growing baby bump while Kaplan sits beside her, with the couple captioning the announcement “Our family.”

Cooper also posted the announcement to her Instagram Stories, adding “Daddy Gang, there is something I’ve been waiting to share with you.” The posts prompted immediate reactions from fans and other public figures, who sent congratulations to the couple.

The pregnancy comes as Cooper, the host of the top-ranked “Call Her Daddy,” remains one of the best-known figures in the podcast space. She and Kaplan have largely kept their relationship private compared with her highly public career. Cooper and Kaplan first connected through a Zoom meeting in July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. They later became engaged, and married in April 2024 in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Cooper described the wedding as tailored to how they had envisioned it, saying it was “everything we wanted it to be,” and added that she was “quite stress free,” crediting Kaplan with...