Anderson's Socialite Mom Turns to 'Smut'

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(April 9) - What does Anderson Cooper think of his mom Gloria Vanderbilt dipping her toes into the sordid world of smutty novel writing? You'd be surprised.

The iconic socialite's yarn, 'Obsession: An Erotic Tale,' tells the story of a "frigid" woman who finds a stack of filthy letters from her dead husband's mistress. The New York Post got its now-grubby hands on it, and concluded it was "pure, elegant, unadulterated smut" filled with 4-letter words and illicit uses of garden vegetables.

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Legendary socialite Gloria Vanderbilt is sure to rub a few people the wrong way with her dirty book 'Obsession: An Erotic Tale,' described by the NY Post as "pure, elegant, unadulterated smut." The 85-year-old's son Anderson Cooper isn't fazed by his mom's new talent, saying "she's totally unique and cool."

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'Obsession: An Erotic Tale' tells the story of a "frigid" woman who finds a stack of filthy letters from her dead husband's mistress. The actual passages from the book can not be printed here. The New York Post, a notoriously frisky tabloid, calls it "pure, elegant, unadulterated smut."

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This is actually Vanderbilt's second saucy book in recent years. Cooper actually admitted being embarrassed by his mom's memoir, 'It Seemed Important at the Time,' in which she clued the world in on her affairs with Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando, and shared other sexual fiddle-faddle.

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But although Cooper admits he's "often surprised" by his mom's actions, he remains "supportive of anything she does," including those pricey blue jeans she used to design and the book, which hits bookstores in June.

"She's totally unique and cool," Cooper told the Post. "At 85, whatever she wants to write is fine by me."

What she writes in 'Obsession' is something like the following passage, edited for your safety:

"I will begin, softly at first so that you can sleep a few more minutes, the long, slow, delicious process of [DELETED], and since I must have your [DELETED] ... I will struggle to stay quiet ... Master, I whisper as you surrender to our ecstasy."

The 'Anderson Cooper 360' anchor is the product of Vanderbilt's fourth marriage to Wyatt Cooper. She lives with her steel-eyed son in New York City.

"Reading her description of her current boyfriend as the 'Nijinsky of [a particular sex act]' was kind of shocking. It's not really a visual image I wanted to have," Cooper wrote on CNN.com. "The truth is, I don't know much about dance history, but I'm guessing Nijinsky was creative, or at least very limber."

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