Alex Cooper Height 2026: How Tall Is Call Her Daddy’s Star?

Last updated: October 30, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Alex Cooper is reported to be 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm) tall. That is the figure most profile pages list, and it is the figure Cooper gave herself when an interviewer asked her directly. Alexandra Cooper, the host and creator of Call Her Daddy, was born on August 21, 1994, in Newtown, Pennsylvania, which makes her 32 years old in 2026. She turned 32 on August 21, 2026 — two months before she announced the birth of her first child on October 20, 2026.

If you came here for one number, you have it: 5’5″. The rest of this profile explains why that number comes with a footnote. Some profile pages say 5’6″. Others say 5’4″. One stray aggregator figure pushes higher still. No agency bio, no verified measurement, and no official listing settles the question, so this article reports the consensus, shows you where each competing figure comes from, and tells you which source carries the most weight — Cooper’s own answer, given on the record in Milan in 2023.

Height is only the entry point. The full story runs from a Bucks County childhood and a Division I soccer career at Boston University, through a Barstool Sports podcast launched in a New York apartment in 2018, to a reported $60 million Spotify deal in 2021 and a reported $125 million SiriusXM deal in 2024 — the two contracts that made Cooper the highest-earning female podcaster in the business. Every date and dollar figure below is tied to the outlet that reported it, and every estimate is labeled as one.

How Tall Is Alex Cooper? The Short Answer

Alex Cooper is 5 feet 5 inches tall (165 cm), according to the majority of profile sources and, more importantly, according to Cooper herself. In February 2023, at the Prada fall/winter show in Milan, Interview Magazine editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg asked her point-blank: “How tall are you?” Her answer, printed in the magazine’s interview, was two words: “5’5.”

That exchange matters because it is the only first-person answer in the public record. Every other figure on the internet is a second-hand listing on a profile page. When a celebrity answers a direct question about her own height on the record, that answer outranks a stats table compiled by a site that never spoke to her.

The 165 cm conversion is the standard metric equivalent of 5 feet 5 inches. Some pages print 167 cm beside the same 5’5″ label — that is a sloppy conversion on those pages, not a separate claim. Five feet five inches converts to 165.1 cm. Keep that in mind when a page looks more precise than it is: a decimal point is not evidence.

For readers who think in comparisons: at 5’5″, Cooper sits right at the average height for an American woman, which the CDC puts at roughly 5 feet 4 inches. She is an inch above that average — unremarkable on paper, and part of why her height rarely comes up in coverage of a career built on a microphone rather than a runway.

The Height Disagreement, Source by Source

Search “Alex Cooper height” and you will find confident answers that disagree with each other by two full inches. Here is the actual spread, checked on October 30, 2026:

Notice the pattern. The 5’5″ camp includes the only source that actually asked Cooper. The 5’6″ and 5’4″ camps are profile mills that copy each other’s tables. None of them cites a measurement, an interview, or a document. When seven pages agree and three disagree, and the seven include the subject herself, the honest call is to report the majority figure and name the disagreement — which is what this profile does.

The two-inch spread has a mundane explanation. Celebrity height listings are usually entered once, years ago, by a site that guessed, rounded, or copied a bad entry, and then scraped forward by dozens of others. A one-inch rounding error in either direction produces exactly the 5’4″-to-5’6″ band seen here. The 5’10” outlier looks like a different kind of error — possibly a conflation with another person, possibly a typo that survived copying — and no credible profile backs it.

Bottom line for anyone citing this page: write “reportedly 5’5″ (165 cm)” and you will be on the strongest ground the record offers. Write “officially 5’5″” and you will be claiming something no source supports.

Her Own Words: The Milan Fashion Week Exchange

The single best piece of evidence in this whole profile is short enough to quote in full. At the Prada fall/winter 2023 show in Milan, Interview Magazine editor Mel Ottenberg caught up with Cooper, who was attending her first international fashion week. After a stretch of fashion talk, Ottenberg asked: “How tall are you?” Cooper replied: “5’5.”

Ottenberg’s follow-up is telling. He remarked that 5’5″ is short for a lot of fashion, but works for much of the collection. The exchange was printed in Interview Magazine in February 2023, and it remains the only published moment in which Cooper states her own height.

Context matters here. Cooper was not promoting a product or polishing a bio when she answered. She was standing at a fashion show, talking to a magazine editor, answering a direct question with no reason to inflate or shrink the number. Fashion is an industry that measures height obsessively, and a first-time fashion-week guest had every incentive to answer plainly rather than risk being caught out by a room full of people who notice such things.

That is why this profile treats the Milan answer as the anchor. It does not convert a self-reported figure into an official measurement — people round their own heights, and footwear and posture vary — but it is the closest thing to a primary source that exists, and it agrees with the majority of secondary listings.

The Wrong Alex Cooper: A Name Collision on the SERP

One more trap awaits anyone researching this question. Search results for “Alex Cooper height” are crowded with a different person entirely: a Scottish footballer named Alex Cooper, born in 1991, whose profiles on Fotmob, Transfermarkt, and Wikipedia list him at 180 cm — 5 feet 11 inches. There is also an American football offensive lineman of the same name, listed at 6 feet 4 inches.

Neither man has anything to do with Call Her Daddy. But search engines do not know that, and aggregator pages that scrape search results do not check. If you ever see a page claiming the podcaster Alex Cooper is 5’11” or 6’4″, you are looking at a name collision, not a new measurement.

This profile flags the collision because it explains some of the wildest figures floating around. The podcaster was born in 1994 in Pennsylvania. The footballer was born in 1991 in Inverness, Scotland. Different person, different continent, different career — same name, same search results page.

Early Life in Newtown, Pennsylvania

Alexandra Cooper was born on August 21, 1994, in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and grew up there as the daughter of Bryan Cooper and Laurie Cooper. Her father played hockey at the University of Wisconsin and later worked as a television sports producer; her mother kept the household running. The family story matters because it explains the two threads that run through Cooper’s whole career: sports and media, sitting side by side at the dinner table.

Cooper attended The Pennington School in New Jersey, a private college-preparatory school, where she played soccer and built the athletic base that would carry her into college. Pennington is the kind of school that feeds Division I programs, and Cooper’s game was strong enough to get her there. She was not a casual player who dabbled in the sport — she was a recruited athlete with a real college career ahead of her.

Newtown itself rarely features in Cooper’s public story beyond the biographical line, but it anchors the contrast that defines her later brand: a suburban Pennsylvania upbringing, a private-school education, and then a podcast famous for saying the unsayable. The gap between the two is the engine of the show’s early appeal.

Boston University Soccer: The Athlete Years

Cooper enrolled at Boston University, where she played Division I soccer and graduated in 2017 with a degree in film and television. HealthyCeleb’s profile notes that BU won a Patriot League title in 2014 during her time on the team. She spent four years balancing a college athlete’s schedule — training, travel, matches — with a media degree, a combination that looks, in hindsight, like a rehearsal for the workload of running a podcast empire.

Her build on the pitch is worth noting in a height profile. At a reported 5’5″, Cooper was not the tallest player on a Division I roster, where midfielders and forwards commonly run taller. Soccer rewards low centers of gravity, quick changes of direction, and stamina over raw height, and a 5’5″ midfielder fits that template cleanly. Nothing in her college record suggests her height held her back; she earned her roster spot and kept it for four years.

The soccer years also explain her on-camera physicality. Years of training show up in posture and movement, and Cooper carries herself on stage and on camera like someone used to being watched while moving — shoulders back, direct gaze, no shrinking. Viewers who assume she is taller than 5’5″ are often reacting to presence rather than inches, a common misread with confident performers.

Call Her Daddy: From Barstool to Solo Host

In 2018, Cooper and her roommate Sofia Franklyn launched Call Her Daddy under Barstool Sports. The show’s early formula — frank, funny, deliberately provocative talk about dating and sex — found an audience fast, and the “Daddy Gang” fanbase grew into one of podcasting’s most loyal followings. The Barstool deal gave the show distribution and a built-in audience; Cooper’s voice gave it staying power.

The partnership ended publicly in 2020. After a contract dispute that played out in Barstool’s own content, Franklyn departed and Cooper became the sole host. That moment is the hinge of her career: a co-hosted show became a solo vehicle, and Cooper’s name became the brand rather than half of it. StarlitCinemas and other profiles mark 2020 as the year she took full control, and the show’s later deals were all negotiated in her name alone.

From 2020 onward, Call Her Daddy widened its lane. The early shock-talk format gave way to long-form celebrity interviews, and by the mid-2020s the guest list ran from pop stars to a sitting vice president. Cooper interviewed Kamala Harris in October 2024, a booking that signaled how far the show had traveled from its Barstool bedroom origins. The microphone stayed the same. The room around it got much bigger.

The Spotify Deal: Million in 2021

In June 2021, Cooper signed a three-year exclusive deal with Spotify reported at $60 million. Parade and Celebrity Net Worth both report the figure, and it made Cooper Spotify’s highest-earning female podcaster at the time — second among all podcasters only to Joe Rogan, per Parade’s reporting.

The structure matters. Sixty million over three years works out to roughly $20 million a year, and the deal covered exclusive distribution of Call Her Daddy on Spotify. It was not a salary in the ordinary sense: it was a licensing and exclusivity arrangement, paid over the term, with performance and advertising mechanics underneath the headline. That distinction becomes important later, when the same headline-versus-reality gap shows up in the SiriusXM deal.

The Spotify years also changed the show’s economics in a subtler way. Exclusivity on the world’s largest audio platform put Call Her Daddy in front of listeners who had never touched Barstool content, and the audience compounded. By the time the Spotify term wound down, Cooper was negotiating from a position most podcasters never reach: a proven global audience, a solo brand, and multiple bidders.

The SiriusXM Deal: 5 Million and What It Actually Covers

On August 20, 2024, SiriusXM announced a new multi-year partnership with Cooper. Forbes reported the deal at $125 million over three years; Fortune, citing a person familiar with the deal, reported $100 million-plus over more than three years. SiriusXM’s own press release, per CNN’s reporting, stated no price at all. The deal took effect in 2025, replacing Spotify as the show’s distribution and advertising partner.

Here is the part most net-worth pages skip: the $125 million headline is not Cooper’s personal salary. Celebrity Net Worth’s own breakdown stresses that the agreement covers exclusive advertising and distribution rights for Call Her Daddy plus programming from Cooper’s whole Unwell Network slate — multiple shows, advertising inventory, distribution, content, and events. Averaged out, the headline works out to more than $40 million a year in total deal value, but that value flows through a business with costs, partners, and staff, not straight into one person’s bank account.

Treating $125 million as take-home pay is the single most common error in Cooper coverage, and it is why so many net-worth pages land on $125 million as her net worth. A deal’s headline value and a person’s net worth are different numbers, measured differently, and this profile keeps them separate throughout.

Unwell Network and the 2026 Valuation Headline

In 2023, Cooper and her husband Matt Kaplan co-founded the Unwell Network, a podcast network built to develop and distribute new shows and talent. The network gave Cooper something the Spotify and SiriusXM deals did not: ownership of a slate rather than a single show. Unwell shows extended her reach beyond her own microphone and turned her from a host with a contract into a media owner with a roster.

In August 2026, Celebrity Net Worth reported that WTSL, the investment firm of Patrick Whitesell, made Unwell’s first outside investment at a reported $500 million pre-money valuation. The same report is careful about what that number does not mean: neither the size of the investment nor Cooper and Kaplan’s ownership percentages were disclosed, so the $500 million valuation cannot be translated into Cooper’s personal net worth. A company’s valuation and a founder’s wealth overlap, but they are not the same figure, and any page that adds $500 million to her net worth on this news is making an arithmetic error, not a discovery.

In May 2026, YouTube announced exclusive shows from Cooper at its annual Upfront event, per OpenThreadNews, adding a video pillar to a career that started in audio. The through-line from 2018 to 2026 is consistent: each deal widened the base — Barstool to Spotify to SiriusXM to Unwell to YouTube — while the core product stayed the same woman talking into a microphone.

Call Her Alex and the 2025–2026 Screen Years

On June 10, 2025, Hulu premiered Call Her Alex, a two-part docuseries about Cooper’s rise, following a Tribeca Festival premiere on June 8, 2025. The series put her private life on screen in a way the podcast never had: wedding footage, family material, and the business story behind the brand. EntertainmentNow and Parade both covered the series’ wedding-vow scenes, which Cooper has said make her cry every time she watches them.

The docuseries landed in the middle of a crowded 2025–2026 stretch. The SiriusXM deal was in its first full year, Unwell was expanding, and Cooper’s October 2024 Harris interview was still being cited as a marker of the show’s political reach. By 2026, the public conversation around her had shifted from “how did a podcast get this big” to scrutiny of the company she built — Vanity Fair published an investigation into Unwell in the same week as her pregnancy announcement in May 2026, per OpenThreadNews, a sign of how far the brand had traveled from its scrappy origins.

Through all of it, the height question kept its small, persistent place in the public record: a fashion-week answer, a stats-table line, a search query that millions of people type without thinking twice. Fame at Cooper’s scale turns every physical detail into a data point, and height is one of the most-searched.

Personal Life: Matt Kaplan, Marriage, and Motherhood

Cooper met film producer Matt Kaplan on a Zoom call in 2020 — she has called him “Mr. Sexy Zoom Man” on the show — and the two were engaged in 2023. Kaplan is the CEO of ACE Entertainment, the production company behind the To All the Boys franchise, and he is also Cooper’s business partner at Unwell. The Knot reports the engagement in March 2023; EntertainmentNow puts it in May 2023. The month differs by outlet; the year does not, so this profile dates the engagement to 2023 without picking a disputed month.

The couple married on April 6, 2024, in Riviera Maya, Mexico, in an intimate beachside ceremony planned with Bash Please. The Knot, Vogue (via EntertainmentNow), Parade, and SoapCentral all agree on the date and place. Cooper walked herself down the aisle, wore five gowns across the wedding weekend — including a Danielle Frankel basque-waist dress for the ceremony — and had the couple’s dogs, Henry and Bruce, serve as ring bearers. A practice ceremony in February 2024 let Kaplan’s grandmother take part when travel was not possible for her.

On May 17, 2026, Cooper announced on Instagram that she and Kaplan were expecting their first child, captioning bump photos with the words “Our family.” She spoke about the pregnancy on the show in June 2026, disclosed a gestational diabetes diagnosis in July 2026, and shared a maternity shoot in October 2026 captioned “the most transformative 9 months of my life.” On October 20, 2026, she announced the birth of her first child on Instagram — a son, according to Page Six and CheatSheet coverage — without disclosing the baby’s name. As of this profile’s October 30, 2026 update, no name, birth date, or birthplace has been publicly confirmed, and this profile does not guess at any of them.

One note on the marriage coverage: a May 2026 Daily Mail-sourced story about “tension” in the marriage circulated widely, and Cooper addressed speculation directly in a June 10, 2026 podcast episode, denying that the relationship was in trouble. This profile reports the existence of that exchange without repeating unsourced claims as fact.

Height in Context: On Camera, on Stage, on the Pitch

So what does 5’5″ actually look like on Alex Cooper? On the podcast set, she records seated, which flattens height differences between host and guest — one reason the question rarely arises from the show itself. On stage and on red carpets, footwear does the rest of the work: heels add three to four inches, which is why event photos routinely make her look closer to 5’8″ or 5’9″ than her listed height. Anyone estimating from photos is measuring shoes, camera angles, and posture as much as the person.

The Milan exchange is useful again here. Ottenberg’s remark that 5’5″ is “short for a lot of fashion” tells you how the fashion world reads the number: petite by runway standards, where 5’9″ and above is the norm, but unremarkable anywhere else. Cooper’s fashion-week presence worked because the clothes and the persona carried the look, not because she matched a sample-size frame.

Against her own history, the number fits. A 5’5″ Division I midfielder is a standard build for the position — quick, low to the ground, durable over ninety minutes. Against her guests, no verified comparison exists: no reliable source lists measured heights for the parade of celebrities across her couch, and this profile will not manufacture a “taller than X, shorter than Y” table from photo guesses. The honest version of that comparison is simple: at 5’5″, Cooper is average height for an American woman, and her screen presence does the rest.

Alex Cooper Net Worth 2026: Why the Estimates Disagree

A height profile still owes readers a straight answer on money, because the search traffic for Cooper’s height overlaps heavily with searches for her fortune. Here is the state of the estimates in 2026, outlet by outlet:

The spread — $60 million to $200 million — is not a sign that someone is lying. It is a sign that the inputs differ. Older estimates predate the SiriusXM deal. The $125 million figure repeats a deal headline as if it were a bank balance. The $200 million figure folds in Unwell’s August 2026 valuation news, whose ownership details were never disclosed. Taxes, agent fees, and the operating costs of running a network all sit between gross deal value and personal wealth, and no outlet has Cooper’s tax return.

Two earnings data points are firmer than any net-worth total. Forbes estimated her 2024 earnings at $22 million in one report and $32 million in its top-earning creators coverage — the two figures come from different Forbes lists and years, so this profile attributes each rather than merging them — and Forbes ranked her the highest-earning woman on its creators list. She has never disclosed a net-worth figure herself, and Everything-PR’s 2026 review states flatly that no verified figure exists.

The responsible summary: Cooper’s 2026 net worth is estimated between $60 million and $200 million depending on the outlet, with the most recent major tracker at the top of that range and method-stated estimates toward the middle. Treat any single number without an outlet attached as marketing, not reporting.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Reporting

This profile was researched on October 30, 2026, from live search results and the outlets named throughout: Interview Magazine (Milan Fashion Week, February 2023) for Cooper’s own height answer; The Knot, Vogue via EntertainmentNow, Parade, and SoapCentral for the April 6, 2024 wedding; Parade and Celebrity Net Worth for the $60 million Spotify deal and the $125 million SiriusXM deal, with Fortune’s $100 million-plus variant and CNN’s note that SiriusXM’s press release stated no price, via Everything-PR; Forbes, via AlmostFearless and Everything-PR, for creators-list earnings; Celebrity Net Worth for the August 2026 WTSL investment at a reported $500 million Unwell valuation; HOLR, CheatSheet, Page Six coverage, and the Leigh Journal for the May 17, 2026 pregnancy announcement and the October 20, 2026 birth announcement; and StarsUnfolded, HealthyCeleb, BiographyWallah, ProfileAge, InfoCelebs, FamousIntel, Explosion, and Who’sWho for the competing height listings and biographical details.

Where outlets disagree — on height, on the engagement month, on Forbes earnings figures, and on net worth — this profile names the disagreement and attributes each figure to its outlet rather than picking a winner silently. No figure in this article comes from an anonymous “sources say” claim, and no fact has been added that the cited reporting does not support. Corrections policy: figures are updated when new reporting emerges — contact us via the About page if you spot an error.