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Anderson Cooper's Baby Pics Worth Thousands

Richard Lawson · 10/14/08 02:26PM

You young people probably once sat farting in a hollowed-out pumpkin for your Anne Geddes baby pictorial, but old timer silver foxes like CNN anchor Anderson Cooper posed for the real deal: legendary maverick and possible Furry Diane Arbus. Yes, at left is a strange, somewhat unpleasant photograph by Ms. Arbus—Coop's skin looks thick and almost Plasticene, his lips appear painted—but it's going to fetch a lot of clams no matter what! (Unlike Cooper, who will never fetch clams for any reason.) It's up for auction today at Christie's for around $8-12k. You should probably buy it and add it to the rest of your shrine. (I'm talking to you, Sam Champion.) Click for larger baby-to-adult comparison. It's pretty uncanny.