A New Mattress

Anderson Cooper Is Renovating His Apartment

4/16/09 at 3:45 PM

If you are a regular watcher of Live With Regis and Kelly, (see post below) you know that Anderson Cooper has been sleeping on the same mattress for decades. Yes, that's the same Anderson Cooper who is a highly paid television personality and also a Vanderbilt heir. You'd think someone who has spent the night in his apartment over the past few years would have gotten fed up and made him change it, right? No — turns out the person pushing him to change the bed is his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. Buried in this (quite awesome) story about her decorating choices for her showroom in the Kips Bay Decorator Show House is news that the Manderson is doing some redecorating of his own:

[Vanderbilt's design partner Matthew Patrick Smyth] also had a unicorn painted on the side of the chest of drawers. He covered the headboard of the bed in a silver-blue moiré fabric that he had designed for Schumacher. (Ms. Vanderbilt reported that she had sent a swatch of it to Mr. Cooper, who she said is redoing his apartment. “It’s very subtle,” she added. “Anderson liked it.”)

Coop's getting a new bed! With silver-blue moiré fabric on the headboard, maybe! We hope they sent over the bureau with the unicorn, too.

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In Bed With Anderson Cooper

By Margaret, 3:40 PM on Fri Feb 27 2009

This morning, while filling in as host for Regis again on Live With Regis and Kelly, Anderson Cooper gave us some insight into his problems in the bedroom.


Anderson is still sleeping on the same bed his mom bought for him when he was a toddler because he can't handle the stress of buying a mattress. He says he doesn't know what kind of mattress he wants, and "you look like an idiot lying on the mattress in the store and then people come and take pictures of you." Though most of us can't relate to being stalked by the paparazzi while mattress shopping, Anderson proves that he's still a man of the people. It's comforting to know that even though he's a Vanderbilt, paying $6,000 for bedding causes AC to "let out a little yelp."