Many Spanish given names honor the Virgin Mary. Girls are frequently given the name Maria or Maria followed by a suffix name and boys are sometimes given the name Maria as a middle name. Girls with Marian composite names may use the suffix portion of their name as their main informal name.
Cooper's father and Vanderbilt's husband Wyatt Emory Cooper, who Vanderbilt still believes is the love of her life, died at a young age and Vanderbilt never married again. Anderson was only ten years old when his father died suddenly of heart failure.
Anderson Cooper reveals brother Carter's suicide led him to seek out a job where he confronts death daily and that he and mom Gloria Vanderbilt stopped celebrating Christmas in the wake of his death. 1  Anderson Cooper talks about the 1988 suicide of his 23-year-old brother Carter Cooper in an emotional new interview. Carter jumped off the balcony of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt's apartment while she stood nearby trying to talk him off the ledge.