Gloria Vanderbilt, American Fashion Icon, Has Died at 95

Jun 17, 2019 by apost team

American fashion icon and socialite, Gloria Vanderbilt passed away Monday, June 17th at 95 years old according to CNN. Anderson Cooper, her son, narrated a eulogy video that was aired on CNN and went over Gloria’s extraordinary life. “Gloria Vanderbilt, my mom, lived her entire life in the public eye,” Cooper says, “Born in 1924, her father, Reginald Vanderbilt, was heir to the Vanderbilt Railroad fortune but gambled away most of his inheritance and died when my mom was just a baby.”

Gloria had worked as a painter, a writer, an actress and a designer throughout her lifetime. Cooper said his mother was diagnosed with stomach cancer earlier this month. He said when his mother found out about the diagnosis she said, “It’s like that old song, show me the way to get out of this world because that’s where everything is.” Gloria passed away at home among friends and family at her side.

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Cooper went onto say in the video, “She was the strongest person I’ve ever met, but she wasn’t tough, she never developed a thick skin to protect herself from hurt. She wanted to feel it all. She wanted to feel life’s pleasures, its pains as well.

She trusted too freely, too completely, and suffered tremendous losses, but she always pressed on, always worked hard, always believed the best was yet to come.” Ending the video Cooper’s final words rung out “What an extraordinary life. What an extraordinary mom. And what an incredible woman.”

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