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Anderson Cooper gets candid on being labeled a silver fox & why he hates to look at himself in the mirror
I don’t know how I got that [silver fox]. I think somewhere it was written down and then other people started writing it down.I liked when I had salt and pepper hair. I started going gray my senior year of college. I was on the crew team and I was starving myself to get down to race-weight of 125 pounds. I would drop 20 pounds for races and my hair by senior year started to go gray, which I think has something to do with my poor diet and starving myself.It’s definitely genetic. Both my mom and dad started going gray early. Salt and pepper I didn’t mind, and in my mind I still have that but I try to avoid looking in mirrors now because I look in the mirror and I’m like Casper the Friendly Ghost. I’m just completely white. If I took off my glasses you couldn’t see me at all.What I realized is that with my hair really short you can just see my pink rat-like scalp. It’s not that the hair itself is thinning, it’s just that you can see my little pink scalp.I think I see myself quite honestly. But who sees themselves in a real way. We all have these incredibly warped perceptions of ourselves and constantly being on television doesn’t help because we are constantly seeing ourselves on a monitor in high definition, which no one should see.A post shared by Andy Cohen (@bravoandy)The 55-year-old says meeting a shirtless Richard Gere had a big impact on him.