There was plenty of talk of marital problems between Alex Cooper and her husband, Matt Kaplan, before Cooper’s pregnancy announcement, and the podcast host was actually grateful for those rumors. In May 2026, Daily Mail reported that one of the the strange things about Cooper and Kaplan’s marriage was that they fought so much that they slept in different beds. “Matt fully proposed to Alex and was so nice to her at first,” a source told the paper. “Once they moved in together, that’s when things changed,” they said. According to the insider, a major source of excitement was that the pair were not only married but also business partners, having started the Unwell media network together. If you ask Cooper, those rumors were a blessing in disguise.
Not long after the report was published, the couple appeared on YouTube TV together on May 13. Cooper was stressed because her baby bump was starting to show, but she hadn’t announced her pregnancy yet and wanted to keep it under wraps. “I just wanted to one day come and announce like, ‘Oh, I had a baby,'” she said in an episode of her. “Call Her Daddy” podcast on June 10. Fortunately for Cooper, the media wasn’t focused on her midsection. “The only rumors that actually came off the carpet are how miserable my husband and I looked,” she added. “It was a win for Cooper-Kaplans that day,” Cooper said of hiding her bump.
Four days after appearing on the front with Kaplan, Cooper deliberately showed off her budding bump when she publicly announced her pregnancy in a two-photo Instagram post. The pregnancy announcement and divorce rumors all coincided with a report being released about Kaplan being a major problem on their Unwell media network.
Matt Kaplan has allegedly mistreated employees
On the same day that Alex Cooper posted on social media that she and Matt Kaplan were expecting a child, a source claimed that reports of the couple having marital problems were exaggerated. “The rumors of marital tension are false and they are so excited about this new chapter,” the insider shared. People in May 2026. “They’ve been trying to hold off as long as they could before announcing,” the source added, echoing sentiments Cooper had shared about hiding her bump on the YouTube TV front page.
The divorce rumors surrounding the couple had not sprung out of nowhere: they originated from one lesser known truth about Cooper’s husband. A report published by Bloomberg in April 2026 accused him of workplace harassment at the couple’s joint media company. Sources who spoke to the publication claimed that Kaplan had often been a terror to staff at the Unwell media network, which he co-founded with Cooper. He had apparently “earned a reputation for frequently yelling at staff members.” After that piece, other sources told the Daily Mail that publishing this information caused a rift between Cooper and Kaplan, who had been married once before. Unfortunately for Kaplan, the Bloomberg article wasn’t the only information about the workplace misconduct allegations to be made public.
A few days after Cooper addressed the divorce rumors on his podcast, a Vanity Fair piece painted Kaplan in an unflattering light. “Behind the scenes, there’s this man, her husband, running around wreaking havoc and making people cry, cringe (with) fear,” an unnamed freelancer who worked at Unwell said in the article published in June 2026. Another former employee told the outlet that Cooper would often see Kaplan say “the nastiest things” to workers and not intervene.
