![]() This is where Cooper reckons she got her knack for giving advice: having perspective from both sides. So I realised it was all really just a game – and that I could play it.” “It was like, wow, I’ve been disregarded by guys my whole upbringing and now they’re interested in me… But I’m the same person and have the same personality. Suddenly, instead of making fun of her, men were chasing Cooper only because of her looks. By the time she reached university – and after “like, four rounds” of Accutane – she had “a glow When Cooper wasn’t kicking a ball around, she was busy setting up shop in her basement, making videos and creating content “because there was no one there judging me or commenting on how I looked”.Īt this point in her life, Cooper was hell-bent on getting boys to like her. Her dad, a sports television producer, always kept cameras in the house. “I was very insecure and hated the way I looked,” she says of a sporting enthusiasm that helped her build confidence – she was good enough to play the game competitively at uni. To escape relentless bullying for being too thin and having severe acne, she played football. This was a far cry from what Cooper experienced at school, which she says contrasted sharply with her home life. If your parents are together, they still fucked you up. If your parents are divorced, they fucked you up. I always joke that they fucked me up because I’ll never find what the two of them have. My parents are still together and very much in love to this day. I was fortunate to have a loving household. Growing up in conservative Newtown, Pennsylvania, Cooper went to Catholic school and “did the whole plaid skirt thing, but not in a cute, sexy way. No wonder she’s built an empire from dishing out raunchy relationship advice and has A‑list celebrities lining up at her door to be interviewed, right? But things haven’t necessarily been plain sailing up until this point. She’s engaging and charismatic, assertive without ever being overbearing, and to put it plainly, hot. To the naked eye, it seems to make sense for Cooper – who created Call Her Daddy four years ago with a mission to offer comedic sex advice to women – to have been anointed the patron saint of podcasts (she’s known as Father Cooper to her fans). A difficult but necessary transition, it turns out, for the biggest female podcaster in the world. Her bleached blonde hair cascades down her shoulders and she is dressed all in white, save for a few flashes of gold jewellery. “Something about living has allowed me to take pause and be present in my life, not just work,” she says. ![]() She’s in the process of moving out since relocating from New York last year, but has no plans to leave LA anytime soon. A self-professed workaholic and chaser of “chaotic energy”, Cooper is Zooming in from her Los Angeles home. ![]()
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