Having the talk
ALEXANDRA COOPER HAS THE POWER TO FELL DOZENS OF relationships. Just 26 years old, Cooper is arguably the most successful woman in podcasting, drawing on her own experiences to dole out sex advice to millions of listeners on her weekly podcast, Call Her Daddy. “In one episode, I was jokingly like, ‘If he does this, break up with him,’” she says. “Then I got hundreds of girls DMing me being like, ‘O.K., I did it,’ and I’m like, ‘Wait, hold on, let’s make sure that’s the right choice for you specifically.’”
Cooper and I are sitting in the lounge of the Greenwich Hotel in New York City, and she leans in conspiratorially while keeping one wary but eager eye on a group of girls in the lobby who have either spotted her by happenstance or tracked her down based on clues from her frequent Instagram Stories. Though she’s the youngest of three, Cooper exudes a big-sister energy that attracts young women—ages 18 to 26, according to her agent—and she cultivates these relationships: between recording sessions in her L.A. home, she’s often direct-messaging one of her 2.2 million Instagram followers, who call
