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- Whoopi Goldberg has welcomed her second great-grandchild
- On Monday, Dec. 8, Goldberg announced the exciting news on The View that she welcomed her second great-grandchild over the weekend
- “I simply think about myself ’cause I never thought I’d have two great-grandkids. To be there for that,” Goldberg said
Whoopi Goldberg is a great-grandmother of two!
On the latest episode of The View, released Monday, Dec. 8, the veteran actress and broadcaster, 70, announced that she had welcomed her second great-grandchild over the weekend.
“I’m going to start out today because I have some fun news from over the weekend. My family welcomed Lotus Dean to the world. She’s 6lbs., 3oz.,” she said. “That’s Lotus and Ruby [the dog]. She is, that’s her dad — my grandson, Mason.”
“He looks in love,” co-host Sunny Hostin added, to which Goldberg joked, “Yeah, that’ll change.”
“Congratulations,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said.
“It’s a wonderful thing,” added Goldberg. “It’s a wonderful thing. This is my second.”
Co-host Ana Navarro then said, “And congratulations to Alex, who is a grandmother again,” in reference to Goldberg’s only child, Alex Martin, whom she shares with her first husband, Alvin Martin.
“I don’t think about that, I simply think about myself,” Goldberg added. “Cause I never thought I’d have two great-grandkids. To be there for that.”
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“What do they call you? Glam-ma or…?” Hostin asked.
“No, they call me Whoopi — cause I’m not the grandma! I’m the great grandma! So just Whoopi,” the Sister Act legend replied.
Mimicking Goldberg’s first great-grandchild, co-host Sara Haines said, “Oopi, sit down!”
“She couldn’t say her Ws, so I was ‘Oopi’ for the longest time,” Goldberg explained. “So we’ll see. But I think this one, she’s ready to get stuff done.”
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“So alert!” Hostin said as photos of the newborn appeared behind the co-hosts.
“Yes, she’s very alert,” Goldberg added.
Goldberg first became a great-grandmother in 2014 when her eldest grandchild, Amara Skye, welcomed a daughter, Charli Rose.
“I wasn’t your normal grandmother, and I’m not going to be your normal great-grandmother,” she said on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in July 2014, adding that she became a grandmother in her 30s.
Asked what her great-grandchild should call her at the time, Goldberg said, “She better call me Whoopi.”
The mother of one’s daughter shares Amara Dean, 36, Jerzey Dean, 29, and Mason Dean, 27, with her husband Bernard Dean.
